“We had cannoli, we had cheesesteak, we had pretzels,” Ashley Haak, a member of Drunken Knitwits and a yarn shop owner in South Philadelphia, said. “There is around, oh my gosh, 30 to 50 ...

And then something weird started to happen: Any time anyone came over, they went straight to the yarn art, skipping over anything else she was making. Encouraged, Fischer picked up more yarn.