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Be enchanted by Judith MacKenzie

In our new eBook, The Judith MacKenzie Collection, you'll find practical articles to improve your spinning—but you'll also find Judith's narrative that connects the mundane with the magical
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Published Apr 24, 2013 6:00 AM by Amy Clarke Moore

Filed under: Spinning Wheels, Plying, How To Spin, Spin-Off Magazine, Spinning Wool, Merino Wool, Wool Processing, Your Yarn, Types of Yarn, Spinning
Our new free eBook is an Ode to Wool Combing and Carding

Handmade tools are so enticing—almost as seductive as the wool we process with them. Perhaps because we love the texture of things or maybe it is the balance of opposites—hard wood to soft wool—whatever it is, it is rare to find a spinner who doesn't have a love affair with her spinning tools. Download our new free eBook to learn how to put your beloved tools to work.
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Published Nov 28, 2012 6:00 AM by Amy Clarke Moore

Filed under: Drum Carder, Wool Processing, Your Yarn, Types of Yarn, Carding and Combing, Spinning, Processing Fiber
Explore natural dyes with our new free eBook

From roadside plants to your spice cabinet, to mineral infused muds, the world around you can yield amazing colors that are harmonious and balanced. Imagine yarn you have made with colors extracted gently from the natural world—imagine bliss.
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Published Sep 26, 2012 6:00 AM by Amy Clarke Moore

Filed under: Natural Dyes, Dyeing, How-To, How To Spin, Spin-Off Magazine, Your Yarn, Types of Yarn, Spinning, Dyeing Yarn
Learn to ply with our new free eBook

A new free eBook from Spinning Daily all about plying.
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Published Jun 27, 2012 6:00 AM by Amy Clarke Moore

Filed under: Spindle Spinning, Spinning Wheels, Drop Spindle, Plying, Spin-Off Magazine, Your Yarn, Types of Yarn, Spinning
Where will these locks lead you?

Musings on the Winter 2011 issue.
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Published Dec 7, 2011 6:00 AM by Amy Clarke Moore

Filed under: Natural Fiber, How To Spin, Spin-Off Magazine, Spinning Wool, Merino Wool, Wool Processing, Your Yarn, Types of Yarn, Spinning, Processing Fiber
A free eBook about spinning wool!

Wool—so common, yet so unique We're in the middle of going to press with the Winter issue of Spin-Off, and this issue is all about fiber. We're looking at it closeup this time—really closeup—by examining crimp and diameter in...

Published Oct 31, 2011 6:00 AM by Amy Clarke Moore

Filed under: Rare Wools, Spinning Wheels, How To Spin, Spin-Off Magazine, Spinning Wool, Wool Processing, Your Yarn, Types of Yarn, Spinning, Processing Fiber
One of many valuable lessons learned from Judith MacKenzie

Amy shares leasons learned from Judith MacKenzie
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Published Sep 7, 2011 6:00 AM by Amy Clarke Moore

Filed under: Plying, Your Yarn, Types of Yarn, Spinning
Spin-Off 2008 Compilation CD

There's something wonderful about how a craft as basic and transcendental as spinning flourishes in this age of iPads, Blackberries, and Netbooks—and, in fact, is sometimes enhanced by the technology that often seems the antithesis of spinning...

Published Feb 3, 2010 11:28 AM by Amy Clarke Moore

Filed under: Plying, Spin-Off Magazine, Your Yarn, Types of Yarn, Spinning
Does this sound familiar?

For years, you've had a secret, inexplicable yearning to make yarn—a subconscious desire that you've resisted, rationalized away, and pushed to the back of your mind. Things have happened, though, that make this resisting harder. Perhaps...

Published Sep 16, 2009 8:57 AM by Amy Clarke Moore

Filed under: Natural Fiber, SOAR, Handspun, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Plying, How To Spin, Spin-Off Magazine, Handwoven, Your Yarn, Types of Yarn, Spinning, Processing Fiber
Navajo-plying with Sarah Anderson

A note from Amy: I first met Sarah Anderson virtually through a submission to Spin-Off magazine where she introduced me to her wrap-and-roll spinning technique; she spun a lively, buoyant yarn using a spindle and a spinning wheel simultaneously. You can...

Published Aug 12, 2009 8:21 AM by Amy Clarke Moore

Filed under: SOAR, Spindle Spinning, Spinning Wheels, Drop Spindle, Plying, Spin-Off Magazine, Your Yarn, Types of Yarn, Spinning
Spinner's Companion and Calls for Entries

Two months ago I put out a challenge to spinners everywhere to enter our “ All Wrapped Up in Natural Fiber ” contest to create a scarf made with natural fiber and perhaps even with fiber they raised themselves. You’d be amazed at what...

Published Jun 10, 2009 8:00 AM by Amy Clarke Moore

Filed under: Natural Fiber, Handspun, Spindle Spinning, Spinning Wheels, Drop Spindle, Spin-Off Magazine, Your Yarn, Types of Yarn, Spinning, Processing Fiber
Your Yarn in Action! Canine Yarns!

Each time we challenge you to spin a particular type of yarn for our Your Yarns challenge in Spin-Off magazine, we save the yarns that are submitted and have appeared in the magazine. We invite individuals or organizations to make things with the yarn...

Published Feb 5, 2007 9:59 AM by Amy Clarke Moore

Filed under: Spin-Off Magazine, Your Yarn, Types of Yarn
Your Yarn in Action! Cellulose and Protein!

Each time we challenge you to spin a particular type of yarn for our Your Yarns challenge in Spin-Off magazine, we save the yarns that are submitted and have appeared in the magazine. We invite individuals or organizations to make things with the yarn...

Published Nov 5, 2006 5:27 AM by Amy Clarke Moore

Filed under: Mohair, Spin-Off Magazine, Spinning Wool, Merino Wool, Wool Processing, Your Yarn, Types of Yarn
Your Yarn in Action! Beaded Yarns!

Each time we challenge you to spin a particular type of yarn for our Your Yarns challenge in Spin-Off magazine, we save the yarns that are submitted and have appeared in the magazine. We invite individuals or organizations to make things with the yarn...

Published Sep 4, 2006 4:17 PM by Amy Clarke Moore

Filed under: Spin-Off Magazine, Handwoven, Your Yarn, Types of Yarn
Your Yarn in Action! Bulky!

Each time we challenge you to spin a particular type of yarn for our Your Yarns challenge in Spin-Off magazine, we save the yarns that are submitted and have appeared in the magazine. We invite individuals or organizations to make things with the yarn...

Published Aug 4, 2005 2:09 PM by Amy Clarke Moore

Filed under: Spin-Off Magazine, Handwoven, Your Yarn, Types of Yarn

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