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

Spin-Off • Vol. XLIII No. 4 Winter 2020

REVIEWS

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Meet a Resident Artist at John C. Campbell Folk School: Martha Owen

It’s the Season for a Mitt-along!

And So It Begins

YOUR FINISHED OBJECT

Handspun Pinecliff Shawl

Spinning the Steppe Camel Fiber and Firebox Spindles

Hand-Prepared Camel Fiber

Treasures from the Firebox: Making a Cross-Arm Spindle

Wild Silk • Blending Beyond Bombyx

Wild Silk Types

Tips for Successful Sampling, Blending, and Carding.

Luxury Laces

Jefferson Farms • The Search for Wild Luxury

What is Paco-Vicuña?

Not Your Typical Alpaca: How to Spin Paco-Vicuña Fiber

Valentina’s Polushawl to Knit

Orenburg Spindles

A Lesson in Handspun Lace Repair

American Bison • Modern Fiber from a Native Species

A Modern Movement

Bison or Buffalo?

The History of Bison in North America

Trekking Socks

THE GREAT FLEECE MAKEOVER

The Fleece Dirty Dozen

It All Comes Out in the Wash

MONARCHS, MILKWEED, AND YOU

Milkweed and Sheep

Play It Safe

Buchanan Fiber Company

Wild Core Spinning • Tips from a Texture Lover

Troubleshooting

Local Bast Adventures in Wild Retting

Try This at Home!

The Joy of Spinning Florida Native Cotton

Lyn Ellen Burkett • Music Professor

Golding Precision Fiber Tools • RINGSPINDLESTM SPINNING WHEELS & ACCESSORIES