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Whether your wheel is vintage or new, the drive band eventually needs replacing. Find tips for replacing bands on antique wheels, and learn how to determine which material to use.
Join us for this year’s spin-along! Challenge yourself to create lace you love—fragile and fine, bold and bulky, or anything in between.
Love lace like we do? We’re here to help you gear up for this year’s event by gathering a collection of lace projects for you to spin and knit!
The turning of the calendar ushers in an annual favorite
Creative approaches to the simple act of plying boggled my mind. And I’ve been spinning a long, long time.
I find Norman Kennedy’s video workshop From Wool to Waulking: Spinning Fiber & Creating Cloth so refreshing.
The number one question people ask when I’m using a handspindle: “how do you go about plying singles yarns from the spindles?”
Learn why a wraps per inch tool can be useful for handspinners.
Every spinner should know this trick! Learn how to cross-lace your flier to save your hands.
Melanie Smith explores how different handspun yarns behave when knitting cables.
What can you learn about cloth in the hands of experts? Linda Ligon shares a peek into her silk collection, and Judith offers her impressions of the tussah, bombyx, peduncle, and other silks she finds there.
Join us in celebrating the diversity of crafts that spinalong members employed in making their handspun, handmade cowls.
