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Heathers, Tweeds, and Flecks: Blend Visual Interest into Your Personal Spinning Style
Harness the power of subtle—or bold—visual texture in your next spin!
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Harness the power of subtle—or bold—visual texture in your next spin!
Kate shares four tweedy yarns to spin from two colorful textured fibers and offers some quick tweed takeaways.
Learn about garneting—the process of turning yarn back into fiber—using your thrums and leftover yarns.
I find Norman Kennedy’s video workshop From Wool to Waulking: Spinning Fiber & Creating Cloth so refreshing.
Build your spinning skills with Judith MacKenzie’s new video course on unusual silks.
Join us as we explore fiber combinations that bring out the best in each other.
See how precious wool nepps are spun into a beautiful rare breed tweed yarn.
When I connected with the Spin Off community in the early 2000s, I was amazed to meet so many like-minded fiber fellows. Spinners are often deeply curious about flora and fauna, traditions and cultures, creativity and technique.
I love knitting shawls with my handspun yarn and decided to knit a shoulder cowl. These popular accessories are a shawl-cowl combination, or “scowl.”
Even with just a few quick passes through the marketplace, I came home buzzing with ideas and an armload of inspiring spinning fiber.
Benjamin Krudwig began spinning tweed yarn with a vision; to create a yarn for a woven jacket that looked like newsprint. He chose a base blend of 75% alpaca/25% llama, then began experimenting with cotton, alpaca, and silk inclusions.
It’s a good time to be a sock knitter thanks to the endless variety of sock yarns available today!