Designers and DIYers with old furniture are not just restoring, but reimagining and giving hardworking pieces fresh purpose.

“Stable genius” felt “really stitchable,” Weymar explained to more than a hundred people at the Art Gallery of Ontario in late November. The words moved her to grab some neon yellow thread and stitch ...

Bellingham alone has three brick-and-mortar yarn shops — Spincycle, Northwest Yarns & Mercantile, and Apple Yarns — in less than a 2-mile radius. A new fabric store, Sew Inspired Fabrics, recently ...