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 ...

Violet Lyon absolutely beamed, the smile never leaving her face when she was presented with a Twiddle Muff. It took some explaining and reassurance that the gift was hers to keep, but the nearly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Knitters have put their needles to work in a bid to help more people with dementia in Burton. More than 150 knitted items, including blankets and twiddle muffs, have been donated to patients at Burton ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...