Related Clues:

• It's quite a story
• "Beowulf" or "Star Wars"
• "The Thorn Birds," for one
• Long heroic story
• Sweater source
• Product of spinning
• Knitter's medium
• Ball material for a cat
• Campfire whopper
• Cord of twisted fibres, wool say
• Fine cord of twisted fibres
• Story, and thread or wool, say
• A long adventurous story - it's a gas
• Exaggerated story or spun thread
• A long story or poem - it's a gas