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Time to relax or get back to work?

Spend a relaxing day watching others spin Spend the day with Norman Kennedy and a song spinning. In Europe, in olden times, spinners had a break from their spinning during the celebration of Christmas. But the day after Christmas, they were admonished...

Published Dec 26, 2012 6:00 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: handwoven, Wool Processing, Drum Carder, Spinning Wheels, Handspun, Spinning Wool, Merino Wool, Carding and Combing, Spinning, Processing Fiber
The music of the wheel

Linda muses on the musical qualities of using a spinning wheel.
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Published Dec 13, 2011 2:00 PM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Spinning Wheels, Handspun, Types of Yarn, Spinning
The magic of creating complexity, simply

Deb Menz shares her color skills in her new DVD. Deb's sampling, from colored fiber to blended batts to yarn and finally a knitted sample. Sophisticated mud blended to match the palette of a beachscape. Create your own double rainbow in yarn I'm...

Published Jul 13, 2011 6:00 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Drum Carder, Spinning Wheels, Carding and Combing, Spinning
What do you want to see next?

Read about the fun and adventure Linda has making spinning videos.
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Published Mar 30, 2011 6:00 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Spinning Wheels, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Spinning Cotton, Spinning
How many people does it take to fix a spinning wheel?

Do you know your wheel? Linda has been learning a lot more about hers.
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Published Mar 2, 2011 6:00 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Plying, Spinning Wheels, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Spinning
A stash-busting resolution

Linda hopes 2011 will be the year she really spins cotton.
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Published Jan 25, 2011 11:00 PM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Spinning Fiber, Spinning Wheels, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Spinning Cotton, Handspun, Spinning
Margaret Stove teaches you how to spin yarn fit for royalty

Interweave will soon release a DVD from Margaret Stove showing you how to spin yarn for lace
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Published Dec 29, 2010 6:00 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Plying, SOAR, How To Spin, Wool Processing, Spinning Wheels, Handspun, Spinning Wool, Merino Wool, Types of Yarn, Spinning
Give yourself a simple gift

Give yourself a simple gift Rita shows her New England Autumn Color with a woven rug. A handspun, handwoven pillowcase — how dreamy! Lovely garments from Rita's wardrobe. I can count on my two hands the number of projects I have woven or knitted...

Published Oct 27, 2010 6:00 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: handwoven, Plying, How To Spin, Spinning Wheels, Handspun, Types of Yarn, Spinning
The Fierce And Powerful Art Of Plying

The first time I tried to ply some of my handspun yarn, I went in the wrong direction. I had spun my singles clockwise, and I tried ever so hard to ply it clockwise, too. My excuse is that I was self-taught, no teacher, no book, no Spin-Off magazine ...

Published Apr 21, 2010 9:43 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Plying, Spinning Wheels, Handspun, Spin-Off Magazine, Types of Yarn, Spinning
Popular Wheel Mechanics, The DVD

I taught myself to spin in 1971. I didn't have a book. I'm not sure I'd ever even watched anybody spin on a wheel. I did have a 15-minute tutorial on using a drop spindle (emphasis on "drop"). My wheel was an old upright Swiss table...

Published Feb 17, 2010 9:50 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: How To Spin, Spinning Wheels, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Spinning
Spinimation—The Maggie and Eunny Show

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...

Published Jun 3, 2009 8:50 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Worsted, Plying, How To Spin, Wool Processing, Spinning Wheels, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Spinning Wool, Merino Wool, Spin-Off Magazine, Types of Yarn, Spinning
Heading To Peru

The last time I was in Peru – last year, in fact – I saw a spinner in one of the villages, and I just can’t get her out of my mind. It was early morning in Chinchero, near Cusco. The streets were still empty and quiet, the roosters still...

Published Apr 29, 2009 9:00 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Spinning Wheels, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle
Spinning Wheel Opinionator

Spinners have waited for years (or longer) for one of his custom wheels. Spinners have cheered, cursed, marveled, or thrown up their hands at his vast knowledge and challenging teaching style. He has mentored one Spin-Off editor (Lee Raven) and many stellar...

Published Apr 9, 2009 11:51 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Spinning Wheels, Handspun, Spin-Off Magazine, Spinning
Tossing spindles

I was looking back, waaay back, the other day, at the second issue of Spin-Off (Fall 1978). This popped out at me: a short article written by Harry and Olive Linder, one of the shining lights and great teachers of the spinning community back in the day...

Published Jan 22, 2009 2:28 PM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Wool Processing, Spinning Wheels, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Handspun, Spinning Wool, Merino Wool, Spin-Off Magazine, How-To, Spinning

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