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Drop Spindle Spinning: Learn How to Spin with Drop Spindles
Apr 28, 2011
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Liz Good
Learning how to spin your own yarn is pretty easy and straight forward, especially if you have access to great...
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A Guide to Processing Wool to Make Wool Roving: Washing...
Jul 21, 2011
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Liz Good
Considering processing our own fibers? We’ve compiled some of our best content from the pages of Spin-Off...
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An Introduction to Spinning Wheels: How to Use and How to...
Jun 9, 2011
posted by
Liz Good
Learning how to spin your own yarn is pretty easy and straight forward, especially if you have access to great...
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Guide to Dyeing Yarn: Learn How to Dye Yarn Using Natural...
Sep 21, 2012
posted by
Liz Good
In this new free eBook, you will learn the ins and outs of natural dyes, explore dyeing with black walnuts as well...
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A Guide to Spinning Silk Fibers + Free Knitting, Weaving...
Nov 21, 2011
posted by
Liz Good
In this free eBook you'll learn how to spin silk for knitting, weaving, crochet, and embroidery projects guided...
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A Guide to Spinning Wool: Learn How to Spin Wool from Rare...
Oct 21, 2011
posted by
Liz Good
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All About Spinning Cotton: A Guide to Cotton Spinning +...
Dec 14, 2011
posted by
Liz Good
This eBook is filled with great tips about spinning cotton from spinners who love working with cotton and know...
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How to Ply Yarn: From Plying on a Drop Spindle to Creating...
Jun 20, 2012
posted by
Liz Good
This fascinating eBook from the experts at Spinning Daily uncovers all of the opportunities, benefits, methods...
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A Guide to Handspun Yarn: Types of Yarn and How to Spin...
Aug 23, 2012
posted by
Liz Good
In this free eBook, discover the numerous types of yarn you can create and the techniques and methods for spinning...
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Wool Combing and Carding: How to Use Hand Carders, Wool...
Nov 16, 2012
posted by
Liz Good
In this new free eBook, you will learn the ins and outs of combing and carding. Learn how to comb and card your...
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Low Tech, High Satisfaction Spinning Brochure
Feb 13, 2009
posted by
Amy Clarke Moore
Free Spinning Brochures Spin•Off magazine provides two brochures to teach you how to spin, and inform you...
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Introduction to Spinning Brochure
Jan 29, 2009
posted by
Spin-Off
Free Spinning Brochures Spin•Off magazine provides the following two brochures to teach you how to spin, and...
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A Guide to Spinning Flax: Linen Spun from Flax Fibers
Apr 5, 2013
posted by
Liz Good
In this new free eBook, you will about flax from seed to fiber. By using traditional hand methods, it's quite...
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Making Dreams Come True: Building a Little Great Wheel by...
Jan 27, 2009
posted by
Spin-Off
For the members of the Peachtree Handspinners Guild, our dreams of owning a great wheel were fulfilled when we...
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Cigar Box Charkha
Jan 14, 2009
posted by
Amy Clarke Moore
Cigar Box Charkha (751 KB) Using a minimal number of tools and materials you can build your own functional charkha...
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Finding Balance
Mar 10, 2009
posted by
Spin-Off
Spinning is a combination of art and science, philosophy and physics, intuition and logic. We’re taught to...
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What are Roving, Top, and Sliver? by Abby Franquemont
Jan 15, 2009
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Spin-Off
It’s common nowadays for a lot of folks in the fiber world to use the word “roving” to refer...
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Plying on a Spindle by Maggie Casey
Jan 15, 2009
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Spin-Off
Plying on a spindle is easy! In fact, there are many ways to do it: Andean plying, multiple spindles, center-pull...
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Spindle Spinning by Maggie Casey
Jan 15, 2009
posted by
Spin-Off
Several years ago at Spin-Off Autumn Retreat (SOAR), a friend and I took Rita Buchanan’s drop spindle retreat...
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Twists Per Inch by Amanda Berka
Jan 27, 2009
posted by
Spin-Off
Twist is what holds fiber together. We use it every time we spin, and still twist perplexes us. Some (or maybe...
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Worsted, Woolen, or Semi-something by Rudy Amann
Jan 15, 2009
posted by
Spin-Off
Do you spin worsted or woolen yarn? Don’t worry if you don’t know—many spinners do not know what...
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Drafting for Worsted and Woolen Style Yarns on a Spindle...
Jan 15, 2009
posted by
Spin-Off
Spinning on a spindle doesn’t mean that you are limited to one type of yarn. It’s the same working...
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The Art of Plying by Judith MacKenzie
Jan 15, 2009
posted by
Spin-Off
Why ply? Plying, as many spinning teachers will tell you, covers a multitude of sins—at least of the textile...
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CD Spindles
Jan 14, 2009
posted by
Amy Clarke Moore
Make a simple spindle using a compact disc, a dowel, a cup hook, and a rubber grommet. These instructions were...
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Plying Chained Singles by Dodie Rush
Jan 15, 2009
posted by
Spin-Off
Commonly known among spinners as “Navajo-plying,” plying chained singles produces a three-ply yarn...
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