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Amy behind the scenes at the video shoot. Maggie Casey on the set spinning effortlessly. Liz sitting in to test out the framing of the shot. Is Maggie Casey the Wind Beneath Your Wings? My brother, in addition to his day job (well, night job) of delivering milk and being an artist, has also been working...
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Summer can bring us free time to spin on the front porch or join friends for an afternoon in the shade, sipping lemonade in between full bobbins. The long days of light may find us leaving home with our wheels firmly belted in the backseat to visit relatives (and a fiber shop or two along the way). We...
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I love cotton In the small Costa Rican village where I learned to spin, cotton was grown on trees, spun on handspindles, and woven on backstrap looms to make skirts and bags. Stephenie Gaustad introducing you to a wealth of information on how to spin cotton in her video, Spinning Cotton. When I first...
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Mar 23, 2011
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Spiders are frequent travelers after the Ides of March. When the eggs hatch, the tiny offspring are caught by the slightest breeze in their miniwebs, launching them into space. Many nights as a teenager were spent patrolling the pine trees, looking for orb weavers spinning webs in the branches. For a...
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How to light a spark Amy teaching in 2005 at the Interweave booth at Stitches West. Liz Gipson teaching spindle spinning at Interweave booth at the Estes Park Wool Market in 2007. Once a month this spring, I’ve been visiting a local school to demonstrate and teach spinning—so far I’ve...
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Helen von Ammon’s qiviut throw from the Fall 2005 issue. Colorful Crochet Bead Ropes by Dodie Rush from the Spring 2005 issue. Felted lace scarf by Mary Blanche Morse from the Winter 2005 issue. What are warm fuzzies for a spinner? We've been working on putting back issues of Spin-Off onto...
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Just a small sample of the cotton fiber Linda loves. Rita Buchanan spinning cotton while reading a book, from her DVD How I Spin . Stephenie Gaustad demonstrating one of her cotton spinning techniques in her upcoming DVD Spinning Cotton . Can I conquer cottonphobia? Read on. Here's the truth: I have...
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The Pinellas Weavers Guild (Florida) is conducting its monthly programs with the yearlong theme "Fiber Arts from Start to Finish." The first centered on raising and spinning natural fibers including alpaca and cotton. Two kinds of carding were demonstrated using handcarders and a carding drum...
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Sarah Wroot arriving at SOAR Team Scholarship, Sarah Wilson and Michelle Boyd, spinning Angela Paolini and Emma Crew of Team Spindle spinning Stetson Weddle and Ann McDonough of Batts in the Belfry knitting The busy hands of Team Strip and Shove It Up Your Orifice The judges with the hats (left to right...
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What does creativity mean to you? For some these are tools of torture: coloring pencils and paper. Amy's daughter Hannah making collages at the dining room table. Handspun cotton yarn and weaving tools. Petra didn't like photos of herself—but Alice, whom Petra was teaching how to weave...
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Sep 22, 2010
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Fusing the old with the new Our newest eMag Spin-Knit will be available in late October, 2010. Things are popping in the Interweave offices. We've just launched two new eMags (electronic magazines) and more are on the way. The Quilting Arts eMag In Stitches was released in July, and Sockupied (about...
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Meet a Natural Spinner DeAnna Dailey came to spinning in a very normal way (through the accumulation of hair from a pet)—though the direction she's taken her spinning is not very common (spinning is part of her daily life as a nature skills teacher). We've asked her some questions about...
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Favorite Free Finds from the Spin-Off Website My favorite thing about the Internet is that you can find just about anything, no matter where you live or what time it is. Geography and normal business hours mean nothing in a world where you can order shoes from a store across the country in the wee hours...
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I was cleaning out some piles of stuff in my office the other day (I will say right up front, I probably win the prize for piles), and ran across an oooold copy of Spin-Off advertising our very first Spin-Off Autumn Retreat . That's what we called it then—the acronym came later. It said, "We're...
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Color galore at the Black Sheep Gathering When the plane set down outside of Eugene, Oregon, on Friday night, I knew I was in for a treat. Verdant rolling hills were illuminated and painted golden by the setting sun peeking out from dark clouds. The soft shades of emerald, olive, and sage green were...