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
IN REMEMBRANCE OF PATRICK GREEN
RITE OF SPRING • Sheep Shearing Day
WINGHAM WOOL WORK • Try Before You Buy
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BLOOMIN’ COLOR
GO-TO GADGETS
majacraft • all you need to spin your dreams
SOUVENIR FIBERS
Sizing Matters A Singular Experience
Sizing yarn for weaving with singles
Handmade pirn pin
SIZE RECIPES
Spirit of the Cloth A Spinner Contemplates Weaving
Spinning for Warp-Faced Bands • Plain Weave & Pick-Up
SPINNER’S TOOL Totes
Creative Uses for Handspun Art Yarn in Weaving
Old Techniques & New Technology A BEAUTIFUL MARRIAGE
STANDING UP FOR Singles
Wooltripping What’s Inside the Not-So-Familiar Wool Fiber?
3-D Effects with Energized Singles
ENERGIZED CINDER BLOCKS Cowl
A JOURNEY WITH Northern European Short-Tailed Sheep
NEST BREEDS SAMPLED (WITH SPINNING NOTES)
Rooed Fleece
Manx Loaghtan Sheep and Their Wool
To Build a Blend AN IRRESISTIBLE MASH-UP OF MANX + DYED WOOL + MULBERRY SILK
In the Footsteps of Mabel Ross
MY LIFE AS A Revolutionary War Reenactor
ANNE HANSON • Knitwear Designer/Blogger/Creative Director of Bare Naked Wools