Want to Spin Self-Striping Sock Yarn?
With some planning, yarn dyers—and spinners—can create beautiful sock yarns with distinct stripe patterns.
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With some planning, yarn dyers—and spinners—can create beautiful sock yarns with distinct stripe patterns.
Spinning yarn shouldn’t be painful, and being sidelined by a handspinning injury takes precious time away from our favorite craft. Physical therapist and spinner Mary Egbert suggests a few hand exercises to help keep our time at the wheel ache-free.
Learn this essential technique step by step.
Find tips for improving your perception and use of color in your handspun projects.
Melanie Smith explores how different handspun yarns behave when knitting cables.
Add depth and complexity to your spinning by learning to see the ways in which colors interact.
What effect does blending white or black fiber into a color have on the finished fiber?
Does twist in spinning really make a difference?
A gift pattern to start the New Year!
During the long days of summer, Kate indulged in shorter, more frequent spinning breaks. Those little pockets of time left her feeling refreshed and created loads of singles! Now it’s time to ply for a scrappy sweater.
We thought we’d give a shout-out to the brave and supportive souls who live with a handspinner.
Learn one method for blending fibers while retaining pure colors and no mud.