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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.

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LOUËT S10C WHEELS • Flexible and Dependable

SPIN SCRAP

A SHEEP OF ONE’S OWN

IDAHO’S TRAILING OF THE SHEEP

SPINZILLA TURNS FIVE

The Hat IN THE LATRINE • Unraveling the Secrets of 18th-Century Life in Cape Breton

KNIT AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY “Latrine Hat”

The Surprising Stick • HOW HANDHELD DISTAFFS BECAME BEAUTIFUL & PRACTICAL

SCHACHT WHEELS • Your new best friends

The Diary of a Spinzilla Spinster

Fierce Fiber Prep • HOW TO COMB & CARD SAFELY

Wounds and Infections

Spinning Wheel Retailers • Visit one of these fine retailers to find the perfect spinning wheel!

Great Spinning Wheel ROUNDUP 2018

In Praise of Useful Spinning

The Shetland Hap • A HANDSPUN GARMENT WRAPPED IN HISTORY

HANDSPUN SHETLAND Half Hap

Everything Old Is New Again • (ESPECIALLY SPINNING EQUIPMENT)

FUTURE FOSSIL Scarf

Felting, Fulling & Finishing • A TANGLE OF TERMINOLOGY

RETTING Lemongrass

THE CURIOUS AND ADVENTUROUS Mr. Lindsay

Navigating R.H. Lindsay’s Offerings

Stop to Shop SPINNING SHOP DIRECTORY

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TERRI DROUIN-GUERETTE • Certified Public Accountant