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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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Where to buy your first wheel There are a daunting number of spinning wheels for sale online . My New Year's post received a lovely note and inquiry in the comments—with a question that I'm asked pretty regularly: "Where can I buy a spinning wheel online? I am just beginning and…"...
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The fourth annual World Wide Spin in Public Day , held on September 15th, was celebrated far and wide. Guild websites, Facebook pages, and Ravelry groups were buzzing with plans for gatherings and demonstrations. Here are a few groups that shared their fiber skills with the public: Spin City Guild (New...
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Yarn spinning is the act of drawing out fibers (drafting) and adding twist to make yarn. You can make yarn on a simple tool like a drop spindle [link] or you can use a spinning wheel. Spinning wheels have been in use for thousands of years and have evolved over time to adapt to the needs of the spinner...
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You never know where a second look will lead you An image of spindles (with whorls) from the Intentional Spinner. One of the many great things about being the editor of a magazine on a topic that I love is that every time I turn around, I learn something I actually want to know. In working on our latest...
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Are you ready to ply? You've mastered spinning a singles yarn and now it is time to ply it. The concept is simple enough—just take two (or three, or four, or more) singles, hold them together, and ply them by twisting them in the opposite direction they were originally spun. Simple, but the...
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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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Galina Khmeleva demonstrates combing on a traditional Orenburg combing device. The proper spinning hand position. Proper hand position for drafting. Our ambassador of Orenburg spinning Imagine a world where a handspun, handknitted shawl is the ultimate status symbol worn by movie stars and politicians...
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Working toward our common goal How often do you spin in public? I find myself doing it more and more as I have spinning that I want to do, but fewer blocks of time in which to do it. I've been hauling my spinning wheel to the local coffee shop when I meet up with my knitting group because I've...
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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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Lydia van Gelder at the Oakland Museum of California, at their Samplings textile festival 2006. Photo: Susan Sullivan Maynard. Susan's ikat vest made from a scrap fabric, left over from an upholstery job that attracted Lydia's attention. Lydia's ninetieth birthday party where we all wore...
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Amy Clarke Moore
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Oct 5, 2011
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Filed under: Spinning Wheels, Handspun, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Dyeing, Handwoven, Qiviut, Natural Dyes, Spinning, Dyeing Yarn
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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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Filed under: How To Spin, Spinning Wheels, Plying, Drum Carder, Handspun, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, How-To, Carding and Combing, Spinning, Processing Fiber
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The view from my wheel. Spinning at the race track. My daughter Hannah spinning on a CD spindle. Making the unseen seen I think I've mentioned before that my husband, Kelly, drag races on the weekends at our local track in the sportsman category of Supergas (which always makes me giggle in a very...