Women’s Work, Part 2: Yarn & Revolutions
Then Athens and the city-state of Sparta got into a long conflict, the Peloponnesian War, and that's where our latest story about women's work comes in.
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Then Athens and the city-state of Sparta got into a long conflict, the Peloponnesian War, and that's where our latest story about women's work comes in.
Spin Off magazine is turning 40! We’ll observe it officially with the Fall 2017 issue, but at this age, you should never wait to celebrate.
If fiber is your thing, a yearly pilgrimage to the local sheep and wool festival is a must! Attending the festival with limited funds?
Learn a free spinning technique today! The How to Ply Yarn eBook will teach you everything from plying on a Drop Spindle to creating plied yarn on a wheel.
On Father’s Day, I remember how I learned about cloth from my dad.
Since cabled sweaters dominate my knitting queue, they don’t offer much incentive for handspinning textured yarns.
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?
This method helps me store an entire project’s worth of singles before plying.
Chances are you already have a couple of dyed silk hankies tucked away in your stash—perhaps they were too alluring to pass up, even though you weren’t quite sure what to do with them.
Today is Sisters Day which made me start thinking about who I consider my fiber family.