Fiber artists across the US are using their craft to protest against everything from national guard deployments to rollbacks on abortion rights In early October, Tracy Wright invited a group of other ...

London is the setting of this week’s first important meeting in the interminable succession of summits that now attend the war in Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky is flying in to meet, on December 8th, ...

For those with two left thumbs, fiber arts might seem like an impossible craft. Crocheting, knitting, sewing, embroidering, weaving and quilting all require a certain degree of hand-eye coordination.

Knitters and crafters had been anticipating Channel 4’s new craft show Game of Wool for some time. Knitting, so long the poor relation of the textile crafts, was finally to take centre stage on ...

Former Olympian Tom Daley inspired the nation to dust off their old knitting needles after he was spotted stitching between dives at the Paris Olympics last year, and his new Channel 4 show Game of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A vile rapist who targeted a vulnerable teenager has been locked up. Chiemka Okoronta, 29, was one of the last two passengers on a bus that arrived in Morley, West Yorkshire, around 10.30pm on March ...

The act of knitting might conjure serene scenes of grandmothers with balls of yarn at their feet as their needles click away they chat over pots of tea. But for those in the know, the world of ...

A blush of robins has been created by a care home knitting club as part of a national celebration of one of Britain’s best-loved birds. The Knitting Nannas from Hazelgrove Court Care Home, on Randolph ...