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Spin Off Winter 2023
Explore bouncy wools, antique but effective tools, and healing through handwork.
A Spinner’s Tussie Mussie: Preparing Eri Silk Sliver
Learn how to manage fine, slippery eri silk for more control during spinning, and you’ll enjoy the resulting handspun with a lovely soft hand, excellent drape, and exquisite luster.
Kim McKenna
Your Finished Object: Handspun Flock Jacket
A beloved handspun sweater turned out to be much too large, so this resourceful knitter felted, cut, and stitched until it became a beautiful lined jacket.
Lisa Pohl Davis
A Spinner’s Journey in Inkle Bands
Spinner Jeannine Glaves revels in weaving sayings using pick-up inkle weaving. What started out as name tags and short humorous or uplifting sayings has morphed into longer bands of up to 21 yards or more that have become the author’s journal of sorts.
Jeannine Glaves
In Spite of the Titanic
The author stitches the circuitous path between her Latvian great-grandmother, a Russian spinning instructor, and her own handwork.
Jess Hupp
Bits and Pieces: Using Special Scraps in New Blends
Artist, spinner, and educator Alanna Wilcox talks about saving special yarn scraps and adding them as texture elements to new batts as a way of connecting with the memories associated with her previous projects.
Alanna Wilcox
- Makers Spacep. 8
- Solitude Woolp. 8
- Makers Space: Solitude Woolp. 8
- A Quick Spin: Bits and Pieces: Using Special Scraps in New Blendsp. 13
- A Quick Spin: Bits and Pieces: Using Special Scraps in New Blends (Wilcox)p. 13
- Bits and Pieces: Using Special Scraps in New Blends (Wilcox)p. 13
- Handspun Flock Jacket, K (Davis)p. 16
- Your Finished Object: Handspun Flock Jacket, K (Davis)p. 16
- Your Finished Object: Handspun Flock Jacket, Kp. 16
In Spite of the Titanic (Hupp)
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Lani's Lana: Sheep Landscape, and Western Woolp. 26Lani's Lana: Sheep Landscape, and Western Wool (Wilkes)p. 26A Handspun Weldon's Shetland Shawl, Kp. 30A Handspun Weldon's Shetland Shawl, K (Wyborny and Helmen)p. 30India's Vanishing Traditions: Spinning Camel with Nomadic Rabarisp. 36India's Vanishing Traditions: Spinning Camel with Nomadic Rabaris (Varia)p. 36A Spinner's Journey in Inkle Bands (Glaves)p. 42Iron Age Inspiration: A Hallstatt Salt Mine Shawl, Twp. 46Iron Age Inspiration: A Hallstatt Salt Mine Shawl, Tw (Lowenstein)p. 46Ilisha's Mittens, Kp. 52Ilisha's Mittens, K (Harding)p. 52Blending for Bounce: Alpaca Mitts That Fit (Condon)p. 56Blending for Bounce: Alpaca Mitts That Fitp. 56Targhee: A Resilient Western Wool (Keller-King)p. 62Targhee: A Resilient Western Woolp. 62Movement Science & Spinning Skills (Tyler)p. 68Movement Science & Spinning Skillsp. 68A Spinner's Tussie Mussie: Preparing Eri Silk Sliver (McKenna)p. 72Vindolanda's Ancient Textile Finds (Caulfield)p. 78Vindolanda's Ancient Textile Findsp. 78Canadian Production Wheels: From Their Hands to Ours (Foty)p. 84Canadian Production Wheels: From Their Hands to Oursp. 84Interlocking Button Cowl, Cr (Lynch)p. 88Interlocking Button Cowl, Crp. 88Book Review. Textile Travels (Kelly)p. 96
