Knitting a spare-yarn afghan is a quick and easy way to save money. There seems to be a law-probably written by a close relative of Murphy ­dictating that needlecrafters will never have just the right ...

Clara James used to love to knit baby blankets and give them to new mothers. At 88, her eyesight is too poor to knit anymore. When she moved in with her son, Russell, and his wife, Rita, boxes of ...