
Bobbins in Your Backyard: Foraged Spinning Tools
The author details how to select, cut, and finish natural, beautiful, and sustainable storage bobbins from a variety of trees and shrubs that can be found in your backyard.
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The author details how to select, cut, and finish natural, beautiful, and sustainable storage bobbins from a variety of trees and shrubs that can be found in your backyard.

Explore our annual Fall tool issue, dedicated to the extra accessories that make spinning such a joy.

Every tool deserves a home. What better way to corral your fiber gadgets than in a handspun, handknitted basket? This project recipe from the Summer 2020 issue adapts easily to your own yarn and storage needs. Make a flock of them in different breeds!

Sabine loves her stash! And it provides her with endless inspiration. Here, she shares her tips for storing your fiber stash.

How do you store all of your spindles and tools? Jeannine Glaves found a system that allows her to keep all of her spindles and tools in one handy place.

Devin offers tips for making space for spinning to suit any living situation, from a single spindle and a few ounces of fiber in a basket to a room filled with tools, a wheel, and fiber.

Here’s a list of my favorite, thrifty “spinning tools” that I absolutely cannot do without!
