How to Knit Handspun Socks in Any Language
I love wearing handspun socks in the Minnesota winters. I have encountered many people who think that there is some magic to making sock yarn.
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I love wearing handspun socks in the Minnesota winters. I have encountered many people who think that there is some magic to making sock yarn.
Solar dyeing is an easy, natural, and fun way to give yarn color and character that requires little work and results in non-repeatable, beautiful colors!
But I’ve gotten a lot of pleasure from making yarn this way. However you think about spinning and weaving, here is this weaver's approach to spinning:
Many spinners collect fleeces faster than they can wash, process, and spin them. Mailing them to a woolen mill is often a welcome answer.
Connecting Threads allows visitors to experience the process of turning a sheep’s fleece into a piece of clothing through a natural dye workshop.
Most of us keep notes of some kind, but it can still be a challenge to capture our spinning inspiration and thoughts in a way that can be put on paper.
Felicia Lo, author of Dyeing to Spin & Knit, demonstrates how to spin yarn like a master dyer in this Artist Q&A with Anne Merrow.
March is the month when we celebrate making all kinds of things with our hands. To me, that’s the meaning of National Craft Month.
Let’s be honest: we all decorate with yarn. You don’t have to commit to full-on yarn wall art like these stash flashers to celebrate handspun yarn art.
Spinning entered my life at a time when I was trying different things and being introspective about life. Spinning lessons became spinning life lessons.
Records from the distant past don't say much about women, yet every now and then we get fleeting glimpses of the history of textiles.