Melanie Bieganski never quite understood why her mother, who suffered with Alzeheimer's disease, "would play with little pieces of ribbon for hours." Then one day, while looking online for projects ...

Jarryd Long, Isabel Swanepoel, Cynthia and Mark Long from the Craft Shop and the Wool Shoppe in Van Riebeeck Park show off some of the twiddle muffs that have already been knitted and crocheted for ...

Hospice patients at Mayo Clinic Health System will receive a special gift this year made by volunteers from Hope Lutheran Church in Eau Claire. The volunteers are knitting twiddle muffs, which are ...

What started as a simple share on Facebook exploded into a collective crocheting-knitting project for a Saskatoon Samaritan group. Deb Schick is a nurse at the Sherbrooke Community Centre. A few ...

A new craft initiative has struck the Wide Bay region, with craft enthusiasts young and old making Twiddle Muffs for a good cause. "Twiddle Muffs are sensory comforts for people who have restless ...

Knitters are being urged to help out dementia patients by a charity and a hospital trust. Hyndburn Homewise and East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is appealing to east Lancashire knitters to make and ...

The sensory bands are knitted double-thickness hand muffs, often decorated, which have been proved to reduce anxiety in patients with dementia or delirium. Vanessa Mclean, dementia care nurse ...

KNITTERS are being urged to create and donate special hand muffs to help hospital patients who are living with dementia. Nurses at Royal Blackburn Hospital are looking for people to produce ‘Twiddle ...

TWIDDLE muff mania has reached knitters in Norway who are keen to help Bradford patients who have dementia. Last week the Telegraph & Argus reported how knitters up and down the country were clicking ...

What started as a simple share on Facebook exploded into a collective crocheting-knitting project for a Saskatoon Samaritan group. Deb Schick is a nurse at the Sherbrooke Community Centre. A few ...