Spin-Off

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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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