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. 3 Fall 2019
REVIEWS
majacraft
MASTER OF COLOR
SPOT-ON TOOLS
MATCHLESS DOUBLE TREADLE
Schacht Turns 50
Meridian Jacobs Farm Club
Combo-Spin Cardigan
LENDRUM • Quality Spinning Tools Since 1976
First Steps in Charkha Spinning
Low-Whorl Love • Versatile and Productive Spindles
Twist Analysis • Twined Knitting
Heartwarming Mitts
Supported Spindles • Pairing Fiber & Tool
Simple Spindle Kate
Tulle & Tools • for Blending Boards
Blending Tool Roundup • Shopping Guide
Drumcarder & Diz • Creating a Marled Roving
Rainbow Fish • Infinity Scarf
Dyeing with Buckthorn
A Bit of Buckthorn History
Buckthorn Berries: Green Dye Recipe
Buckthorn Bark: Red Dye Recipe
Working with Buckthorn-Dyed Yarns
Mixlace Wrap • Design by Denise Lavoie; handspun version by Elizabeth Prose
At Your Ease • Spinning Chairs, Posture, and Finding the Right Fit,
Walt Turpening • The Art & Science of Your Best Seat
Beacon Shawl
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