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Get your free eBook to learn to felt fiber and felt yarn! Felt is probably one of the most ancient of techniques used to make cloth from animal fibers. It is likely that our most ancient of ancestors unwittingly created felt when they wore animal pelts close to their bodies—their sweat, movement...
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Being neighborly with pails of vegetables and a spinning book My neighbor knocked on my door with a book in hand. She likes to go shopping at flea markets and on a recent trip she found a slim volume of Your Handspinning by Elsie G. Davenport published in Great Britain in 1953, and then in the United...
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On the Cover: Hyde Park Stole by Anne Podlesak DEPARTMENTS Editor's Page Letters As the Whorl Spins Reviews Get This! Abbreviations Advertisers' Index Classified Ads Seasons Collars by Joan Sheridan A Link to Spinners Past by Ercil Howard-Wroth Restoring the Jane Austen House Museum Spinning...
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We know what it means to pour your heart and soul into a functional piece Unknown Navajo Artist, Blanket, Chief’s Style–Third Phase, 1860s. Wool and dye. Denver Art Museum; Native Arts acquisition funds. The textile community in Colorado has been buzzing for the last several months about...
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With all the great spinning workshops that Interweave kee ps putting out, my video library is outgrowing my bookshelf space. Fortunately, the folks in our online education department have come up with a brilliant sol ution. They've just launched our new Craft Daily site! This means that I can watch...
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May 15, 2013
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Some of you have been waiting with bated breath for Spin-Off Autumn Retreat (SOAR) registration to open. (And we've been looking forward to finding out who will be joining us this fall in Saint Charles, Illinois!) Well, breathe deeply and go register at www.interweavesoar.com . We can't wait...
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Content without the clutter The original Interweave magazine from Fall 1975 that started it all. While our digital versions don't go this far back (yet!), we are working our way back through the years. I used to haunt flea markets looking for back issues of magazines I had known and loved as a child...
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Be enchanted by Judith MacKenzie In our new eBook, Judith MacKenzie explains plying and cabling yarn. Judith MacKenzie has been enthralling us for decades with her soothing voice and storytelling magic via many a medium—classes, video, and the written word. You don't have to be a spinner to...
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Amy Clarke Moore
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Apr 24, 2013
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Patsy teaching a handspinning workshop in New Zealand. Photo: Rich Zawistoski. Find Patsy at SOAR 2013. Spinning instructor Patsy Zawistoski, or Patsy Z as most of us know her, is spinning her way through a nine-week workshop tour in New Zealand. Her home guild, the Illinois Prairie Spinners , has been...
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New access to timeless information Sarah Natani demonstrates spinning on a Navajo spindle in the Spring 1995 issue of Spin-Off. Spin-Off's managing editor, Liz Good, and I were just talking about what the digital age was like when I was in college and she was in high school—almost twenty years...
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A handsome Jacob sheep enjoying the festival. Photo: Kate Larson. While I was still a relatively new spinner and knitter, I happened to be living in New England. I was working as a farm intern in Vermont and living in a little cabin in the woods with my Ashford Traveler and a small stash of beloved fiber...
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A love letter to linen Spinning flax into linen isn't something that I do very often—but I've often dreamed of the things I could make with this age-old fiber. I love the qualities of linen. I love that it starts as a spindly, delicate flower that is stronger than it looks; I love that...
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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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Reconsider cotton The lovely natural dyed cotton of Ella Baker. Cotton is an amazing fiber—great for keeping us cool and dry when it is hot and humid out. Cotton is the fiber of the ages. It is the fiber the ancient Egyptians cultivated to clothe themselves and also to wrap their dead in to ensure...
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How do you fit spinning into your work life? An out-of-state friend came to visit recently, and she gave me a DVD set of Downton Abbey seasons one and two as a present! I had a "Squee!" moment. I had only managed to catch half of an episode (from season three, no less) rather recently (it airs...