In recent years, Debra Yencer has noticed an uptick of visible homeless in the Crossroads. The Victoria Advocate reports driving home from errands or volunteer work in Victoria, Yencer's heart has ...

A group of women from the Hacienda Mobile Home Park are donating sleeping mats that they have crocheted and knit from plastic bags to the Fullerton and Santa Ana armory shelters. For the past year and ...

Knitters have long known about the health benefits of their hobby: reduced depression, anxiety and blood pressure and an increased sense of wellbeing, to name a few. But now, more and more knitters ...

Tabitha Njeri (right) teaches Caroline Nekesa how to knit a table mat in Kitale town. [Martin Ndiema, Standard] It is Sunday afternoon in Meru farm, Kitale, and Tabitha Njeri, 16, is holding a ...

RURAL HALL - Marie Horn is proud to be a Knitwit. She’s not silly or scatterbrained. Horn is the dedicated organizer of a group of women who knit sleeping mats from plastic bags for the homeless. The ...

(WIVB) — There are many wonderful organizations in Western New York that help the homeless. And there’s one group that spends hundreds of hours a week, tediously knitting. They call themselves “Mats ...

In recent years, Debra Yencer has noticed an uptick of visible homeless in the Crossroads. Driving home from errands or volunteer work in Victoria, Yencer’s heart has grown heavy for those she saw ...

SPOTSWOOD, NJ - Stitch in Time is run by Diane Charlesworth at the Spotswood Public Library every Thursday from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. An energetic group of knitters and crocheters get together to work ...

For their effort to succeed, they need to collect thousands of non-biodegradable, used plastic shopping bags — such as those from many grocery and department stores. On Tuesday night in Poway a couple ...

It is Sunday afternoon in Meru farm, Kitale, and Tabitha Njeri, 16, is holding a crotchet needle, mat board, a tape measure and knitting thread. Villagers have nicked-named her “Njeri wa mats” owing ...