Growing up with a father whose vocation demanded traveling the world, Diane Hayward lived in such far-flung places at Johannesburg, Africa, and Limerick, Ireland, but it was her introduction to ...

Melanie Walter has another use: She makes baskets out of pine needles. ... Most of her sales come through Port City Pottery & Fine Crafts, a crafts cooperative with a store in the Cotton Exchange.

In the weaving room of Barrows Hall, Penney Retirement Community's arts and crafts hub, Margaret Smith pulls out piles of lush, colorful place mats, table runners and enough shawls to spread ...

With a twist, some turns and a little bit of thread, Barb Dedrickson turns ordinary pine needles, gourds and other items found in nature into works of art.

ABOVE: LeeAnn Galusha shows off her travel kit filled with dyed pine needles on Sept. 5. BELOW: Galusha holds a woven piece in the Artists’ Gallery in Bozeman.