Spin-Off

You’ll discover helpful techniques that are designed to help everyone, from the beginning spinner to the most advanced. Learn how to dye your own fibers, plying basics, fiber preparation and combining colored fibers to make novelty yarns. Plus great patterns to show off your handspun yarns.

Editor’s Letter

PRESERVING HERITAGE CRAFTS

ENGINEERING AN AFFORDABLE ELECTRIC SPINNING WHEEL

THE ONLINE GUILD of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers

SPIN ON THE GO

SWEET SUMMER SPINS

ROVING

A NORTH RONALDSAY YARN: The Sheep, Their Wool and Their Island

COLOR BLENDING FOR SPINNERS Course with Esther Rodgers

Blending & Spinning for Fair Isle Knitting

Water, Washing & Dyes • How H2O Leads the Way to Color Success

Overdyeing Natural-Colored Fibers

3 Ways to Spin Blended Combed Top

BREWING UP A BATCH OF Custom-Dyed Fiber

TURN UP THE HEAT Working with Warm Colors

Easy Methods of Dyeing Fiber Naturally with Ubiquitous Midwestern Plants

HELIANTHUS Mitts

Woad Adventures with

Color Transformation in Naturally Colored Cottons

THE ART OF Natural Dyeing

Spin Off’s Guide to Fiber Events and Workshops

Lichens Fungi + Algae = Color!

SERMONS in Stone?

Spinning Alpaca’s Natural Colors

8 WAYS TO SPIN COLORED ALPACA

TIMBERLANE Cowl

KUROMATSU Sweater

Stop to Shop SPINNING SHOP DIRECTORY

PAT MALEY • Teacher and ham radio operator