Knitted fabrics like a scarf or socks are highly elastic, capable of stretching as much as twice their length, but individual strands of yarn hardly stretch at all. It's the way those strands form an ...

For those of us who love to knit one and purl two, there has been some buzzing around town recently. To the joy of knitters, a yarn store has opened in downtown San Clemente, officially on Jan. 3. An ...