In a workshop that’s a refuge from the world, Dorothea Campbell uses her hands. Her right hand turns a crank, or manipulates dozens of needles arranged in a circle. With her left, she holds tightly to ...

OLIVE TOWNSHIP -- The first time our paths crossed, Mike Bronkema was sporting an Olive Township Fire Rescue T-shirt and knitting a pink sock on a hand-crank antique circular sock knitting machine. We ...

Kids, this is not your grandmother’s knitting machine, but it might have been your great-grandmother’s or her mother’s. The sock-knitting machine used by Judy Dudkiewicz at Baskets of Yarn in Onalaska ...