Hearth & Field recently spoke with Mrs. Carla Hanson, a fiber artist and Texan. Mrs. Hanson, who is a mother of seven children, did not herself grow up knitting or weaving, but came to the craft as an adult. She tells us below about how she has found dyeing and spinning and weaving yarn, advising customers, and building craft-based friendships to be fulfilling ways to create beauty and to connect with other people and with the natural world.
