yarn
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Other recent events have focused on “lost arts,” including sewing, knitting and jewelry making, in which Edenwald residents have offered instruction and bins of yarn.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
This is still above all a lovely, soft yarn about crime-solving farm animals, some of them voiced by Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, and the guy who plays Roy Kent on “Ted Lasso.”
From Salon • May 17, 2026
The threads in the suit were handmade to be 10 times bigger than normal with oversized yarn.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Thought to be made from a cattle femur, this decorated Anglo-Saxon spindle whorl, used to provide weight while spinning yarn, was unearthed from farmland near Bishopstone, Buckinghamshire.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026
Shadows spooled from the breaking surf, and it reminded Danny of the basket of yarn that Mrs. Garner kept in the living room out of reach from the twins.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
Vocabulary lists containing yarn
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
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The Season of Styx Malone
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Stories of Ourselves
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