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How an issue of Spin-Off is created Falkland wool, in the Hello Yarn September 2012 club colorway, Critter. We start planning each issue of Spin-Off over a year in advance. Many parts and pieces must come together to make a successful issue and it is always fascinating to see how the initial idea changes...
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Apr 3, 2013
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Start with the right tools, it makes a big difference Maggie Casey showing Eunny Jang how best to insert twist in Start Spinning: The Video. It is starting to feel like I've always been able to spin. What a wonderful feeling! When I sit down at my wheel my default yarn comes naturally. And, well...
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Liz Good
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Dec 5, 2012
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Donna Towell helping 4-H members learn to spin. Wisconsin Spindle and Dyepot Guild. Spinning demonstrations at the county fair. Wisconsin Spindle and Dyepot Guild. Learning to spin llama. Wisconsin Spindle and Dyepot Guild. What was your first handspinning experience? Many people are inspired to learn...
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Kate Larson
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Jun 29, 2012
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Northwest Pennsylvania Spinners and Weavers Guild worked with Camp Stone, an Orthodox Jewish summer camp, to introduce 680 campers to an array of fiber arts. Campers saw a sheep shearing demonstration and learned to card and spin wool using either a drop spindle or a wheel. The newly created yarns were...
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On the Cover: Locks of Romney, Lincoln, and Merino wool, which are the subjects of Beth Smith's article on spinning with the crimp in mind. DEPARTMENTS Editor's Page Letters Reviews As the Whorl Spins Get This! Abbreviations Classified Ads Advertiser's Index Autowrap by Jacey Boggs The Molo...
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Spin-Off
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Nov 25, 2011
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A nineteenth-century upright Swiss table wheel that was a gift to Interweave founder Linda Ligon in 1975 from her first weaving teacher, Janet DeBoer. Jonathan Bosworth's reproduction of a Han Dynasty spinning wheel (China, circa 206 B.C.E.–220 C.E.)—which challenges the commonly held...
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I have quickly become addicted to spinning. On cool evenings, you can find me excitedly watching the magic of twist convert fluffy fiber into sturdy yarn. I am still fascinated with the transformation. But spinning has been a home-based-only hobby. My spinning wheel is not portable. It doesn't fit...
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Toni Rexroat
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Aug 24, 2011
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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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Amy Clarke Moore
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Mar 23, 2011
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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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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 a good knitting friend has confessed a desire to...
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Amy Clarke Moore
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Sep 16, 2009
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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 arrived in our office! We had a great response and...
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Jun 10, 2009
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When we learned that 2009 was to be the United Nations’ Year of Natural Fiber , our first thought was, “Wow! What can we do that’s really special?” Our second thought was, “Wait a minute—we’re about natural fiber EVERY year! What’s special about that?”...
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Linda Ligon
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May 27, 2009
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On the Cover: Top or Bottom Whorl, What's Best? page 44. Departments Editor's Page Letters As the Whorl Spins by Stefanie Berganini Reviews Get This! by Stefanie Berganini Abbreviations Calendar Classified Ads Advertiser's Index Clun Forest Set by Carol Huebscher Rhoades Spinning for Needlepoint...
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The onset of shearing creates spring fever in spinners. We do not even have to raise sheep to be eager to see them shorn. A trip to a nearby farm during shearing season can provide a year’s worth of daydreaming—just looking at wool on-the-hoof can plant visions of the yarn, sweater, or blanket...
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In the photos: (Right) Butler County Spinners and Weavers Holiday Show, 2007 Butler Arts Center Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival 2007 – Sheep to Shawl Competition. Pictured at the loom: Spinners: Kathy Knoth, Carol Buttignol and Christine Williamson with weaver (at the loom) Wini Labrecque. Pictured...