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 ...

In Bellingham, a burgeoning community of yarn enthusiasts is helping knitters get cozy in style, hand-spinning and hand-dying yarns that stand strands and hues apart from their commercial brethren.