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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HOT FIBER IN THE CITY
COOL THING
MAKING THE GRADE THE UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING’S WOOL-JUDGING TEAM
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JOYFUL CONCLUSIONS & NEW BEGINNINGS: 20TH MADRONA WINTER FIBER ARTS RETREAT
Honest Cloth SPINNERS ON WEAVING WITH HANDSPUN
Ed Jenkins SEES THE FOREST THROUGH HIS TREES
TREKKING WITH Turkish Spindles
Spin Off ’s Guide to Fiber Events and Workshops
Donegal Tweed THE MAGIC OF COLOR
A WEAVER’S WOOLLY START
Traveler’s Secret Pocket Cowl • Wanderlust n. Strong impulse toward wandering or traveling the world.
TEACHING in Tibet
Sheep on the Move • WHY CAN’T WE HAVE VALAIS BLACKNOSE RIGHT NOW?
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS A FOMITE? WHY DO WE CARE?
IMPORTING FLEECES
Colonial Williamsburg • GIVING A HISTORIC SHEEP BREED A BRIGHT FUTURE
THE IMPROVED LEICESTER
Melton Vale Mitts
Discover • a new knitting tradition with Galina Khmeleva
Tales of an Alpaca Grader FIBER? ALPACA MY BAGS
Spinning Flax (NO DISTAFF REQUIRED)
WEAVING WITH LINEN ONLINE COURSE
Nålbinding A SHORT HISTORY OF AN ANCIENT CRAFT
NÅLBINDING BASICS Oslo Stitch
ALEXANDRIA WARE • Project Manager for Planetary Spacecraft