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. XLVIII No. 1 Spring 2024
The Nettle Dress: A Magical Tale of Love and Healing
Starfall Shawl
The Spinners of Timloukine • Handspun Rugs and Socks in the High Atlas Mountains
Ntaidrin (Wheat) Socks • Pattern for Handspun Yarn
A Natural Dyer’s Road Map • Revisiting Gerber’s Investigative Method
Pueblo Cotton • Tradition and Revival
Embroidery: Threads and Stories from Alabama Chanin and the School of Making
Making Red • Dyeing with Lac in Laos
Blending Ratios • Experimenting with Nepps, Noils, and More
Journey from FIBER to FINISHED PROJECT
Blending Colors Using a Co-Primary Palette
Color Swatch Biscornu
Pastel to Pure Hue • Dyeing with Value and Saturation in Mind
Karida Collins • Owner, Neighborhood Fiber Co.
All the Colors of the Wind
Mixing It Up with Natural-Color Cottons
Homegrown Cotton and The Cotton Project
SPRING FRESH