Emma Haring thinks she started making mittens several years ago -- maybe just after she retired. She retired from the workplace in 1972. This year, the 95-year-old mother, grandmother, great- and ...

In Head Start circles around town, Marion Thorn is known as “The Mitten Lady.” She has been crocheting mittens since 1990, and donating them to Head Start programs — 1,375 pairs in all. Thorn moved to ...

All semester, the group Knitting and Crocheting for the Common Good has been meeting two days a month to make handmade items to give away. The new group, launched this semester by biology lab ...