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Take your blending board skills to the next level with a few easy-to-find accessories.
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Take your blending board skills to the next level with a few easy-to-find accessories.
Learn how to choose your fiber preparation with a knitting project in mind—here are some suggestions to get you started!
Blending boards offer lots of options. Find out why they’re this spinner’s desert-island prep tool.
Kim McKenna continues the conversation on using value keys to create the perfect blend.
Spinning tools are a big investment. Handcards, drumcarders, flick carders, and blending boards all use carding cloth, a toothed material, to open and blend fibers.
Have you ever dizzed fiber off a blending board? Check out Kim McKenna’s method for creating a smooth, blended prep.
Take control of your fiber’s colors. Deconstructing braids gives handspinners the option to make certain colors more dominant, change the order of the hues, make new shades, or even tone down certain colors.
While speed is relative in the world of fiber prep, blending boards and drumcarders will do their jobs more quickly than handcards or combs.
Spin Off Fall 2020, our annual tool issue, investigates the abundance of spinning tools available in our community, old and new.
If you were stranded on a desert island and could only have one fiber tool, what would it be?
Whether you prefer smooth and subtle or funky and chunky blends, the blending board can produce a variety of fiber preparations. Here’s Deborah Held with more.