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On the Cover: A Gift from Laurel: My first handspun shawl DEPARTMENTS Editor's Page Letters As the Whorl Spins Your Yarn: Recycled Yarn Get This! Reviews We apologize Caroline Foty's name was misspelled in the review of her book Fabricants de Routes. Abbreviations Classified Ads Advertisers'...
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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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She refused it. Spinners may wonder what Jane Austen Knits has to do with spinning—note that the project on the cover is made with handspun yarn. Reading and knitting are natural companions—especially when wearing Lydia Bennet's Secret Stockings by Susan Strawn. Josephine, a shawl inspired...
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On the Cover: A nineteenth-century upright Swiss table wheel DEPARTMENTS Editor's Page Letters Reviews As the Whorl Spins Get This! Abbreviations Classified Ads Advertiser's Index Jonathan Bosworth's Spinning Wheel Time Machine by Julia Farwell-Clay A Wine-Cork Orifice Hook by Jeannine Glaves...
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I was out in my garden with my daughter Hannah (age 4½) this weekend looking at the tulips that are pushing up from under the snow. We marveled at robins who were gathering twigs to weave their nests and uncovered piles of worms blithely turning our compost into soil (Hannah's favorite part...
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I have my Spin-Off 2010 Calendar hanging right next to my desk; the image for February is one I put together for the calendar when we designed it last summer. February is a fun month for our family because we have a lot of birthdays to celebrate—and to top it off, my mom's birthday is on Valentine's...
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Amy Clarke Moore
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Feb 10, 2010
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Filed under: Call for Entries, Natural Dyes, Dyeing, Handspun, Spinning Wheels, Plying, Spin-Off Magazine, Spinning Wool, Merino Wool, Handwoven, Wool Processing, Types of Yarn, Spinning, Dyeing Yarn