I’ve rattled on for years about how hard it is to put spinning instruction in print. It’s such a dynamic, process-intensive craft—so hard to capture in one-shot increments. For all my carrying on, though, I think we’ve done a pretty...

Button-Up Neck Warmer Call for Submissions In the Handspun Gallery of the Spring 2010 issue of Spin-Off, we’d like to showcase your versions of the Button-Up Neck Warmer that was published in the Summer 2009 issue of Spin-Off. We invite you to submit...

Features

Armchair Traveler: Sweden by Ingrid Brundin

Spinning in Lithuania: The Ties That Bind by Donna Druchunas

Boimimcry: Humans and Nature Design a New World by Judith MacKenzie McCuin

Yarns of Love by Chris Spitzer

Fiber Basics: CVM - Otherwise Known as California Variegated Mutant by Robin Russo

Hanspun Gallery of Quants

Book Excerpt: Spin Control by Amy King

Enchanted by a Spinning Wheel by Judy Ross

Helen Bills, a member of the Hoosier Heritage Spinners and Weavers Guild (Indiana), considers herself a “late bloomer.” She began spinning around 1992 (at the age of 71) and spins “for the fun of it, for the love of it and the historical...

Spinning for socks is one of my favorite things to do. I love that you can spin up the yarn for socks in a couple of evenings after work, or better yet, on a quiet Saturday with a couple of Jane Austen movies as company. And that the knitting can be carried...

This is too funny not to share with all of you--a Dilbert cartoon about spider silk. It is especially funny in light of an article by Judith MacKenzie McCuin that will appear in the Summer issue of Spin-Off (that just went to press last week and is now...

A survey was taken by the Friendship Spinners (Northern Kentucky/Southern Indiana) to help the group plan for the future. Suggestions and topics included evaluating the location and amount of time for annual retreats, additions to and critique of content...

Drum roll.... We've been getting anxious calls all morning, and the time has arrived - SOAR registration is now open! Visit interweavesoar.com and click the "Register" button in the upper-right corner to register. Hope to see you in Sunriver...