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

Spin-Off • Vol. XLVII No. 1 Spring 2023

Back to the Iron Age

Card-Carrying Spinners

The Likeness of a Lichen

Controlling Color in a Handspun Sweater

Deep Color: The Shades That Shape Our Souls

Dyeing RESOURCES • Looking for products and partners you can count on for dyes and dye products. We’ve rounded up a few for you. You’ll find more information on their websites, too. Enjoy!

Katie Weston • Dyer and Owner of Hilltop Cloud

Grocery-Store Lichens for Masalas and Magentas

A Many-Seamed Cardigan • Cable & Colorwork

The Curious Colorist • Small-Batch Dyeing for the Dabbler

Slipped-Color Exploration

COLOR TOOLS

Striated Handspun Hat

The Handspinner and the Hydrogen Ion

Heathered Effects • Dye Natural-Color Wool Three Ways

Testing Tussah • Two Ways to Spin and Weave a Band

Northwoods Handspun Tussah Shoelaces

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Garneted Tweeds • Reusing Thrums for Eco-Friendly Palettes

Color Play with Plant-Dyed Tops

Love and Loss A Ball of Wool

Colcha Embroidery • Stitching with Churro Wool

A Colcha Peahen

Dyeing with Lady’s Bedstraw

FRESH START

Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art