Your Yarns

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2009, Spring: Spindle-Spun Yarn
Mar 10, 2009 posted by stefanie berganini
High whorl, low whorl, tahkli, or Turkish—anything goes! Yarns are shown at 100%. Details show the yarns...
10,545 2,271 8
2009, Fall: Natural Fibers from Scratch Yarns
Aug 25, 2009 posted by Spin-Off
Wool you processed yourself, cotton you prepared from the boll, silk reeled from cocoons, etc. No manufactured...
5,094 1,202 2
2003, Fall: Rare Wools Skeins
Jan 29, 2009 posted by Spin-Off
Our Rare Wools Challenge received more than 300 skeins! All of the pages didn’t fit in the Fall 2003 issue...
2,544 375 1
2008, Fall: New to You Yarn
Jan 15, 2009 posted by Spin-Off
With these yarns, the possibilities are endless! Whether it’s a new fiber or a new technique, these yarns...
2,222 344
2008, Spring: Exotic Yarn
Jan 15, 2009 posted by Spin-Off
Exotically beautiful yarns, we should say! Wow. These are yarns you want to bury your face in, roll around in,...
2,246 424
2007, Fall: Sock Yarns
Jan 15, 2009 posted by Spin-Off
In our Summer 2006 issue, we asked you about Your Yarn in our survey. Nearly one-third of those who responded liked...
2,860 583
2010, Spring: Hand-Dyed Yarn
Mar 22, 2010 posted by stefanie berganini
Let’s see your true colors! Dipped, sprinkled, or painted, natural dyes or synthetic—if you spun and...
4,973 1,392
2010, Fall: Colors Blended by Hand
Sep 2, 2010 posted by stefanie berganini
Let’s get blending! Whether you used combs, a hackle, or a drumcarder, we wanted to see it! All yarns consist...
3,055 656
2011, Spring: Camelids
Feb 24, 2011 posted by Liz Good
Camelids! From alpaca to camel to guanaco, if it's made from camelid fiber, we wanted to see it! Shown on these...
2,416 416
2011, Fall: Paper
Mar 1, 2012 posted by Liz Good
Paper! In our Spring 2011 issue, Judith MacKenzie shared her experiences spinning with sewing-pattern paper. We...
1,095 195
2012, Spring: Barber poles and mud
Mar 1, 2012 posted by Liz Good
Barber poles and mud! We challenged readers to explore these two often maligned traits in handspun. We were surprised...
1,450 296
2012, Fall: Recycled yarn
Mar 6, 2013 posted by Liz Good
Recycled yarn! In our Spring 2012 issue, we featured two articles about harvesting yarn from existing garments...
235 60
2013, Spring: Green yarn
Mar 6, 2013 posted by Liz Good
Green yarns! In our Fall 2012 issue, we challenged readers to the very open task of creating green yarn. It was...
332 68