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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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Liz Good
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Apr 3, 2013
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Filed under: Dyeing, Spin-Off Magazine, Handspun, Spinning Wheels, Natural Fiber, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Handwoven, Natural Dyes, Dyeing Yarn, Spinning, Processing Fiber
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On the Cover: Tenney Park Scarf DEPARTMENTS Editor's Page Letters Reviews As the Whorl Spins Get This! Abbreviations Classified Ads Advertiser's Index Supported Spinning on Russian-Type Spindles by Elise Cohen A Second Look: Handspun socks by Ann Budd Fiber Basics: Portland by Carol Huebscher...
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A trip down memory lane I just received a copy of the Spin-Off 2000 Collection CD, and seeing it brought back a flood of memories—it is the year I transitioned from assistant editor to guest editor, to editor, represented in the Spring, Summer, and Fall issues. It was all so new to me—every...
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Amy Clarke Moore
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Jan 18, 2012
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Filed under: Handspun, Rare Wools, Spinning Cotton, Spindle Spinning, Spinning Wheels, Drop Spindle, How To Spin, Spin-Off Magazine, Spinning Silk, Spinning, Alpaca Wool
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What were your thoughts and feelings when that first spinning wheel came into your life? Did you sit down for a trial spin on it at a fiber festival where it followed you home? Did its silhouette catch your eyes at a garage sale and become your one and only purchase of the day? Was it a brand-spanking...
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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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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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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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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...
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On the Cover: Undulating Scarf, page 50. 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 Get Loopy: Experiment with boucle by Jacey Boggs Drafting Techniques: The long and...
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On the Cover: Spinning Pleasantly Plump and Silky Singles by Judith MacKenzie, page 62. 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 Spinning Basics: Spinning Fine Yarns...
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On the Cover: Coils: Adding to Your Art Yarn Repertoire, 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 Armchair Traveler: Vilnius, Lithuania by Donna Druchunas...
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I did my first spinning on a handspindle. Like many spinners, after I got my feet wet I moved up to a wheel, and there I remained for a long time. I felt that while the spindle was a fun first step, it was just a stepping stone on the way to wheel spinning. After a couple years of spinning, and especially...
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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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Amy Clarke Moore
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Jun 10, 2009
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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. Harry and his wife, Olive, had just traveled in...
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Linda Ligon
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Jan 22, 2009
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On the Cover: Handpainted bombyx silk, 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 Swoopy Skirts by Kathryn Alexander Fiber Basics: South America’s Wild...
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Spin-Off
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Dec 9, 2008
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