The Spinner’s Guide to Spring-ish Clean a Spinning Wheel
The longer days of spring and extra daylight mean more time for spinning! Make sure your tools are in tip-top shape.
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The longer days of spring and extra daylight mean more time for spinning! Make sure your tools are in tip-top shape.
Sleuthing out the best vintage wheels can be challenging. Learn what one handspinner looks for in used and antique spinning wheels.
Variety is the Spice of a Spinner’s Life.
Written up as a curiosity in the weekend paper, the little antique wheel seemed destined to become my first spinning wheel.
Devin Helmen’s tips for not getting overwhelmed when shopping for fleece at festivals.
Every spinner should know this trick! Learn how to cross-lace your flier to save your hands.
Kim McKenna shares her process for creating and tracking the rich blends developed for her new Spin Off pattern, the Ancient Earth Shawl.
Katrina explores how twist direction can affect crochet based on handedness.
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.
Right-handed vs. left-handed. Should that influence whether your flyer should be on the right or left?
Learn this essential technique step by step.