Playful elf motifs are a familiar sight in Finnish Christmas culture, and a festive sock design featured on Kotona.com draws ...

Only a few of the patterns that Tyyne Lothberg works into her knitted mittens have names. Lothberg might spend a winter evening working a "night and day" pattern out of wool yarn, or she might sit at ...

The Olympic Games are the highest echelon of sports. And the Finnish team in Pyeongchang has found a crafty way to deal with the stress of the intense competition. Finland's snowboarding coach Antti ...

Whether it's carrying crystals, meditating, or mainlining gummy bears — we all have our own ways of dealing with stress. And, this Finnish coach knitting at the 2018 Winter Olympics to keep himself ...

It started in Sochi, continued in Rio and now Team Finland is continuing its tradition of knitting during the Olympics. The Finns claim it's relaxing and fun. Here's some other Olympic news. Olympic ...

Finnish snowboarding coach Antti Koskinen was caught by cameras knitting right before his boarder's run in the men's slopestyle. According to a report, Koskinen knitted at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi ...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Yarns, stitches, loops and purls, instead of spins, flips and slides... the Finnish team in Pyeongchang are using the soothing effects of knitting when Olympic ...

The worlds of aunties and heavy metal will finally collide in -- where else -- Finland this year, as the world's first Heavy Metal Knitting Championship has been announced. The championship will go ...

Warm up the sauna, because 2017 will be a time to celebrate all things Finnish. On New Year's Eve, as Canadians ring in the country's 150th birthday, people in Finland are also celebrating a major ...

Finland has a tendency to beguile. Saunas are so important that both the president and prime minister keep official ones. The country has the most heavy metal bands per capita. It's experimenting with ...

Finnish snowboarding coach Antti Koskinen was caught by cameras knitting right before his boarder's run in the men's slopestyle. According to a report, Koskinen knitted at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi ...