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Transform your stash into gifts for others Handwoven magazine's former managing editor Pattie Graver is an accomplished weaver and spinner to boot. In her retirement, she has been offering invaluable help around the Spin-Off office . We have invited her to share with you about our latest eBook as...
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Improved resources for teaching spinning This morning I spent an hour at the public Montessori school where I volunteer. The junior high classroom that I help out in has spinning wheels, looms, and bags of alpaca fleeces shorn from the farm’s alpacas just waiting to be spun up. I go in whenever...
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Knowing the right yarn for the project The Yarn Review section of Spring 2012 issue of Interweave Knits takes a look at Tencel yarns. I thought I knew yarn before I took on editing Interweave Knits . After all, I knitted! I was on a first-name basis with everyone at every yarn shop in a 50-mile radius...
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Spinning Tips—Or Not In the DVD How to Card Wool: Four Spinners, Four Techniques , Carol Rhoades demonstrates her carding technique. You know how there are about a trillion different ways to divide the world into opposing sides? Such as people who are night owls vs people who are early birds; people...
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Linda Ligon
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Apr 4, 2012
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Filed under: Plying, Wool Processing, Drum Carder, Spinning Wool, Merino Wool, How-To, Carding and Combing, Types of Yarn, Your Yarn, Spinning, Processing Fiber
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You may not think it's a good use of handspun yarn to walk around wearing it out under the soles of your feet. Why use yarn that you've put a lot of effort into creating for a project that will develop holes? In honor of the Spring 2012 issue of Sockupied , here are three good reasons. 1. You...
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This is my first post to Spinner's Connection, but I have been helping Peg Coffey read through your newsletters for a while now. I am amazed at the inventive ways guilds around the world challenge themselves and make fiber arts more visible. A theme that is also constantly at work in your newsletters...
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The fabric of our lives Most spinners learn how to spin with wool—it is easy to learn with and is widely available as a spinning fiber. Sometimes not knowing that something is challenging can be a good thing. For instance, I learned how to spin by spinning cotton. I was a college student studying...
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Amy Clarke Moore
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Dec 29, 2011
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Filed under: Natural Fiber, Handspun, Spinning Cotton, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, How To Spin, Spinning Wool, Merino Wool, Handwoven, Spinning Fiber, Wool Processing, Types of Yarn, Spinning
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Merino fiber that has about twelve crimps per inch. Romney fiber that has about six crimps per inch. Lincoln fiber that has about three crimps per inch. Locks of Potential What is it that brings you to spinning? I imagine we come to spinning for a whole host of reasons—as diverse as we are as spinners...
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Amy Clarke Moore
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Dec 7, 2011
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Filed under: Natural Fiber, How To Spin, Spin-Off Magazine, Spinning Wool, Merino Wool, Wool Processing, Your Yarn, Types of Yarn, Spinning, Processing Fiber
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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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Filed under: Natural Fiber, Calendar of Events, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Call for Entries, Spin-Off Magazine, Wool Processing, Handspun, Spinning Wool, Merino Wool, Spinning, Processing Fiber
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Three swatches knitted in seed rib pattern using single, two-ply, and three-ply yarns When you ply your spun singles do you prefer two-ply, three-ply, or four-ply yarns? Or perhaps you prefer to work with singles and skip the plying all together? In the Fall 2001 issue of Spin-Off Rita Buchanan shared...
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Toni Rexroat
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Oct 11, 2011
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Filed under: Spin-Off Magazine, Spinning Wheels, Wool Processing, Plying, Worsted, Spinning Wool, Dyeing, Merino Wool, Mohair, Types of Yarn, Natural Dyes, Your Yarn, Spinning, Dyeing Yarn
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Wensley and Dale, Spin-Off Winter 2000 Years ago, my mother spotted a newborn lamb with large black and white splotches, making him look more like a miniature Holstein calf than a Columbia lamb. He was only hours old when my Mom claimed his yet ungrown fleece. Months later, she spun the beautiful black...
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I have been reading about multiple American spinning groups with connections to Tasmania , so I took the pocket atlas off the shelf to confirm its location. Tasmania is an island off the southeast coast of Australia near the Tasman Sea, separated from the mainland by the Bass Strait. Susan Prince of...
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We've just been alerted to an error in the Merino Scarf featured on page 111 of Interweave Knit&Spin 2011—an error that was also present in the original publication of the pattern in the Fall 1995 issue of Spin-Off, page 52. Row 1 should read: Row 1: P7, k1, *p6, k1*, repeat from * to ...
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When I learned to spin 16 years ago, I learned alone, from a book. I lived in a remote community where there were no opportunities to learn to spin. There was no YouTube, no local guild, no kindly mentor. I was adrift with my new passion, with no guidance. Then I found Spin-Off Magazine. Spin-Off showed...
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Spread the word about our free Drop Spindle Spinning eBook Every once in a while I start to daydream about what a world overrun by spinners would look, and more importantly, feel like. What if everyone was a spinner? Standing in line at the grocery store you would be discussing with others the merits...