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Spin Off Editorial Staff

How to Spin Faster: 3 Ways to Up Your Handspun Yarn Output (and Why You Shouldn’t)

Looking at my fiber stash, I sometimes feel a wave of panic rise. How will I ever transform all this fiber into handspun yarn? If I have any hope of finishing the sock spin-along/knit-along I’d better get spinning.

Anne Merrow

Free Guide to Wool Combing and Carding

This free guide to wool combing and carding provides expert tips on using hand carders, wool combs and drum carders to prepare your fiber for spinning.

Amy Clarke Moore

27 Uses for Wool Wash (Besides Washing Wool)

Spinning Handpainted Roving: Color Techniques

Seriously, why do I have so many braids? BECAUSE I LOVE THEM.

Deb Gerish

Thigh Spinning in the Pacific Northwest

How Big is Your Yarn? It Depends.

Spinning Together, Back in the Day

Bobbi Daniels, Bewitched by Angora Fiber

Bobbi Daniels came across spinning and angora rabbit fiber in the yarn shop she owned in Alaska. She fell in love with the animals and fiber and found herself with a new career.

Ada Hirsch--A little bite

Q&A with Fiber Prep Instructor Courtney Mussatt