Philly-based LocoRobo, makers of STEM learning tools for kids, just launched a $20,000 KickStarter campaign aimed to help manufacture its latest creation: a tiny programmable robot called Loopy. What ...

Defeat the winter blues by joining them at YWCA Piqua to make a loopy yarn winter snowman wreath that converts to an Easter bunny wreath come springtime.

It’s a three-inch tall, green and blue robot, with a white dome on top of its head that lights up. It’s from the planet “Loopitron,” and it landed here to teach children as young as four-years-old how ...

I started knitting in the fifth grade, long before it was cool. It was so uncool, in fact, that I would hide my yarn and knitting needles in my locker and sneak them out at lunch for a quick knit/purl ...

The Katies are back with their softest craft yet! They’re making a tabletop Christmas tree using only a few items under $25. Step one: Hot glue the end of your loopy yarn to the bottom of your cone.

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Sitting in the basement of Loopy Yarns, a colorful and extremely organized yarn store in the Printers Row neighborhood of Chicago, Jo Anne Smith holds up a bright red, hand-knitted sweater. It looks ...

When Gini Aten Erving thought about opening a yarn shop last winter, she may not have predicted one thing people would do with the bins of colorful threads at Loopy Knit/Crochet. On Monday, fiber ...