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Spin Off Summer 2000

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Patterns, stories, and extras printed in Spin Off Summer 2000.

What’s so Special about SOAR?
Find out what brings people back to this beloved event, year after year.
Spin Off Editorial Staff
Two-Yarn Slippers
With a durable yarn on the outside and a soft one on the inside, these slippers are cozy enough to wear all winter and strong enough to make it to spring.
Wayne Pfeffer

What’s inside

Indexed from Spin Off Summer 2000, in page order.

Baby bonnet. K (Ware/Ireland)p. 1
Baby bonnetp. 1
Putting indigo to sleep (Sp99:77)p. 2
Guest editors’ pagep. 2
What is the SpinCycle?p. 6
Lincoln sweater. K (H. Clark)p. 7
Lincoln longwool sweaterp. 7
Stahman, Myrna A. I. Stahman’s Shawls and Scarvesp. 13
Mendelson, Cheryl. Home Comforts: The Art & Science of Keeping Housep. 13
Essentials: Washing wool fleecep. 14

Spinner’s question: Is three-ply yarn “rounder” than two-ply?p. 20

Cool Icelandic stripes. K (Spanos)p. 25

Cool Icelandic stripesp. 25

Two-yarn resoleable socks. K (Pfeffer)p. 29

Two-yarn resoleable socksp. 29

Two-yarn slippers. K (Pfeffer)p. 31

Two-yarn slippersp. 31

Profile of Kate Shaffer: Spinning her life’s valuesp. 38

Profile of Kate Shafferp. 38

Merino and silk scarfp. 39

Internet mailing listsp. 41

The tie that bindsp. 44

Chores were donep. 46

Chores were done [poem]p. 46

Handspun, handknitted hats. K (B. Johnson)p. 47

Knitted hatsp. 47

What’s so special about SOAR?p. 50

Shetland sheep-beyond the islands. K (R. Murray)p. 56

Shetland sheep—beyond the islandsp. 56

Shetland knitted swatches. K (R. Murray)p. 59

Knitted Shetland swatchesp. 59

Red and blue sweater. 8H; Tw (Hutchison)p. 63

Red and blue sweaterp. 63

Color-and-weave patternp. 65

Color-and-weave pattern from Color-and-Weave IIp. 65

Cotton dish towels. 4H; Bronson lace (Hutchison)p. 66

Emerald woven sweater. K, 4H; Tw (Mortan)p. 68

Emerald woven sweater. 4H; Tw (Mortan)p. 68

Emerald woven sweaterp. 68

Overshot runner. 4H; overshot (Bonde)p. 70

Overshot runnerp. 70

Plaid runner from charkha-spun cotton. 2H, 4H; Pw (Stansfield)p. 71

Plaid runner from charkha-spun cottonp. 71

Handspun wedding garments. Woven, K (Gunn)p. 72

Handspun wedding garmentsp. 72

Drop spindles in Bolivia and Perup. 77

Spinning and a Columbian road tripp. 79

Estonian wooden distaffsp. 81

The Akha spindlep. 84

Handspun, handknit vest. K (Darling)p. 85

Handspun, handknit cotton vestp. 85

Spinner’s connection on the Interweave web sitep. 102

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