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
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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