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. XLV No. 1 Spring 2021
HERE’S HOW WITH ASHFORD Spinning out your color
The Eye of Fiber An Uncommon Story from Around the World
A Short History of the World According to Sheep
Custom Shawls for the Curious and Creative Knitter
WASHING AIDS
Sister Proprietors: Provisions Kenya
Tips for Navigating Online Fleece Sales
Epic Jacket
How to Deconstruct a Braid
The Long and Short of It Hand-Dyed Braids and Color Placement
One-Pot Magic Surprising Natural-Dye Rainbows
Katmoget Shetland Spinning a Natural Gradient
Salt Spring Cowl A Handpainted Ombré Gradient
Next-Level Hackle Blending Patterns for Color Management
Handpainting Fiber Exploring Food and Drink Dyes
Pacing Pullovers Small Sweaters for Hard Times
Solar Dyeing Cushing’s Direct Dyes for Plant Fibers
Equipment
Solar Notes from the Road • When teaching classes, I always learn new things and discover new tips. Necessity is the mother of invention! Here are a few things I’ve learned during my teaching travels about keeping solar dyeing easy.
Find Your Colors! Road Map to Repeatable Dyes
Pick Your Primaries
Woven Interactions Making the Most of a Handspun Gamp
Take Two Bite-Sized-Gamp Mug Rugs
Color Wheel Gamp
Subtle Gradient Gamp
Spin Off
Kate Rogovin Hypnotherapist and Artist