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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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For this alpaca/silk shawl, Sara spun one ply of the warp yarn end to end from a single dyed braid so that the color blocks were maintained. I then plied it with a semi-solid alpaca/silk yarn of oranges and reds that doesn't interfere with the first ply's colors. We recently got an advance copy...
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On the Cover: Lyme Regis Scarf by Kirsti Johanson DEPARTMENTS Editor's Page Letters As the Whorl Spins Get This! Your Yarn: Green Yarns Abbreviations Advertisers' Index Classified Ads So You Want To Start a Business by Liz Gipson Your Yarn: Green Yarns Swatch Mitts by Kate Larson FEATURES Behind...
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Start with the right tools, it makes a big difference Maggie Casey showing Eunny Jang how best to insert twist in Start Spinning: The Video. It is starting to feel like I've always been able to spin. What a wonderful feeling! When I sit down at my wheel my default yarn comes naturally. And, well...
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Liz Good
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Dec 5, 2012
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Wool Combing and Carding: How to Use Hand Carders, Wool Combs, and Drum Carders I'll always remember the day I learned about wool combing. I was attending my first wool festival—the Estes Park Wool Market up in Estes Park, Colorado. Mesmerized by the booths overflowing with fiber and yarn,...
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Wouldn't this purse be great in a handspun, handpainted yarn? Eds.—Weaving is a great way to put handspun to work. There is so much variation in the yarn we spin, it opens unlimited possibilities for woven cloth. We have invited Anita Osterhaug, editor of Handwoven, to share some of the magic...
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Once you've basked in the absolute joy that comes from learning how to spin, you might start casting around for other equally satisfying pursuits. One of those is dyeing your yarn with natural dyes. Just as ancient people learned that they could infuse their textiles with the colors of the earth...
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A New Spin on Knitting Daily TV, Yarn Spotlight Clara Parkes joins host Eunny Jang as a yarn expert for the newest season of Knitting Daily TV. We've invited Annie Hartman Bakken, associate producer of Knitting Daily TV, to share about the newest yarny addition to the Public Television show all about...
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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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Rosanne Anderson used chaffey wool to create the cat baskets included in our new Spinning for Crochet eBook. The start of everything 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...
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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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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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When I was little, I remember sitting on the couch listening to the whirl of the wheel as my mom spun. She let me try my hand at the wheel and patiently helped me keep my drop spindle going. The spinning bug didn't really bite though until many years later when I came to work at Interweave. Again...
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On the Cover: Golden Hour Bag DEPARTMENTS Editor's Page Letters Reviews As the Whorl Spins Get This! Abbreviations Classified Ads Advertiser's Index Recycle: The urban fiber harvest by Judith MacKenzie Bedouin in the Big City by Tracy Hudson Photo: Tracy Hudson FEATURES Behind the Scenes: At...
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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