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For me, Kate says, spinning yarn and fiber work has always been a path toward mindfulness, healing, and calm. I’m excited to craft an event that specifically shares that part of my teaching and personal fiber journey.
Amelia Garripoli demonstrates that there is much more available than just drop spindles and spinning wheels. Explore a supported spindle for the first time.
Some spinners are afraid to spin cotton. They’ve heard it’s too difficult. Fear not! Joan Ruane loves to teach how to spin cotton on a tahkli spindle. Over several decades, she has perfected her own techniques for spinning cotton and cultivated a pass
Whether you took it up last week or spun your first skein decades ago, do you remember what made you want to learn to spin yarn?
Listening to spinners speak to each other feels like trying to understand a foreign language. Here’s a list of my favorite handspinning terms.
It’s too cold to go biking past fields of yaks today, though, so I’ll sit down at another kind of wheel and start spinning yak fiber instead.
Fungi offer more than just a nonfat food full of potassium and B vitamins—you can dye with mushrooms, too!
Have you tried spinning a smoothie batt?
