Finding the Perfect Yarn, and Fiber News

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• A Place to Find the ?Perfect Yarn? (Flathead Beacon)
  
  Melanie Cross is a self-described ?OK? knitter, an interesting distinction given the fact that she?s spent the last six months gutting and remodeling a downtown Kalispell shop in order to open her own specialty knitting store. That?s not to say Camas Creek Yarn was built on a whim: Cross?s husband and business partner Andy Hurst said she?s been talking about having her own yarn store and ...
  


• Warming homeless hearts one stitch at a time (Southlake Times)
  
  A group of Carroll ISD students, parents and teachers are gathering twice a month to jut, stitch, swoop and pull ? yarn that is.
  


• Group seeks makers of afghans, yarn, funding (Akron Beacon Journal)
  
  Warm Up Akron makes afghans for needy people in the Akron area. The organization is seeking volunteers to knit and crochet, as well as donations of yarn and money. For information, call Lynne Zastawnik at 330-699-3252 or visit http://www.geocities.com/warmupakron.
  


• Sheep farmers feeding rising appetite for lamb (The Columbus Dispatch)
  
  The sheep on the Mossy Dell Farm don't produce wool for warm winter sweaters or yarn for knitting scarves. They don't produce wool at all.
  


• Hugh Massingberd, Laureate for the Departed, Dies (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
  
  Mr. Massingberd, a celebrated former obituaries editor of The Telegraph of London who made a once-dreary page required reading, died on Christmas Day.
  


• Emporium woman makes decorations for nursing home (The Bradford Era)
  
  EMPORIUM ? Elaine Davis picks a spool of yarn from her collection of reds, blues, greens, whites or pinks, takes a piece of thread and hooks it onto her needle.
  


• Movie Watch (Sunday Life)
  
  In this post-apocalyptic thriller about the last survivor of a terrible man-made catastrophe, virologist Robert Neville (Will Smith) lives in the ruins of the Big Apple seeking a cure for the outbreak. For the first hour Smith's natural charisma holds us spellbound.
  


• NDSU moves toward starting industrial hemp research in 2008 (Prairie Star)
  
  North Dakota State University may begin planting industrial hemp seed next spring to fulfill a 1999 Legislative mandate, says a university official.
  


• Manipuri boy invents unique weaving machine (ANI via Yahoo! India News)
  
  By Sanjay Kumar New Delhi, Dec 30 (ANI): A Manipuri boy has invented a unique weaving machine that makes garments without any stitches. Yengkhom Daevson, a fashion designer, has named his Seamless Woven Garment machine as "BEMM," after his sister. Daevson said: "With this new machine, you can combine the textile and the garment industry. The garment can be directly made from ...
  


• State Farm Show: An ?udderly? fun time (Williamsport Sun Gazette)
  
  My idea of dying and going to Heaven would be to spend eternity at the Pennsylvania Farm Show food court. Fortunately, I shouldn?t have to wait until I leave the land of the living for that to happen.