I ask you, could that tortie color be any more perfect? (Courtesy Caroline Sommerfeld) I'm a big believer in buying local, especially in a town as fiber-friendly as Portland. But every so often you ...

Briggs & Little's knitting yarn is a bit scratchy and has a faint whiff of its barnyard origins. But in today's $2.8-billion North American knitting market, both the yarn and the small Canadian ...