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
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Solitude Wool • Breed-Specific Yarn and Fiber
Holiday Gift Guide • Find the perfect gift this season for the creator in your life. These are some we can’t stop talking about!
Bits and Pieces: Using Special Scraps in New Blends
Handspun Flock Jacket
WINTER WONDERS
In Spite of the Titanic
Lani’s Lana • Sheep, Landscape, and Western Wool
A Handspun Weldon’s Shetland Shawl
India’s Vanishing Traditions • Spinning Camel with Nomadic Rabaris
A Spinner’s Journey in Inkle Bands
Iron Age Inspiration • A Hallstatt Salt Mine Shawl
Ilisha’s Mittens
Blending for Bounce • Alpaca Mitts that Fit
Targhee • A Resilient Western Wool
Movement Science & Spinning Skills • Learning Good Habits, Unlearning Bad Habits
A Spinner’s Tussie Mussie • Preparing Eri Silk Sliver
Vindolanda’s Ancient Textile Finds
Canadian Production Wheels • From Their Hands to Ours
Interlocking Button Cowl
Textile Travels