Participants can learn the tradition of grain painting wood at a one-day workshop scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012 from 10 a.m.to 2 p.m. at the Mennonite Heritage Center, 565 Yoder Road, ...

ROCK SPRINGS — Mary Huff provided instruction on making rag rugs during the Busy Hands Section meeting of the Woman's Club of Rock Springs. She provided the rags and crochet hooks needed if members ...

Mary Bajcz, who came to the Detroit News Stitch-Together in May, has an amazing talent for turning scraps of wool fabric, leftover yarn and discarded wool garments into beautifully handcrafted rag ...

After World War II and a stint in the Army, I came back to my job. Instead of 72 hours a week, my work week was 40 hours. I found it difficult to support my five children and my wife. I looked around ...

BROKEN BOW — Jennie Harvey hopes that through her newfound hobby turned business, she’ll be able to bring blessings into other people’s lives. In December, Harvey took some ideas from a couple friends ...

Making stuff with your own hands can be very rewarding. Not only do you get the satisfaction of being creative, but research shows do-it-yourself hobbies relieve stress. So when my childhood friend ...

We had a World War 2 day at Sacred Heart School, Redcar. Several students tried their hand at making rag rugs. © Copyright of content contributed to this Archive ...

Were rag rugs made of wool strips first made in Canada 150 years ago to cover dirt floors? Or were they first made in England during the early 19th century from short pieces of yarn left over from ...

Photo provided Dee Nierman’s mother is shown in the past at the 1864 loom that Nierman uses today. Rag-rug maker Dee Nierman lets it be known right at the top of a conversation that, at 87 years old, ...

Historically, when your clothes were beyond repair, they were shredded up and made into something else - usually rugs and baskets. Traditionally a new hearth rug would be put out on Christmas eve, the ...

We had a World War 2 day at Sacred Heart School, Redcar. Some people tried their hands at making rag rugs. © Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests ...