Spin Off Summer 2025 Web Extras & Helpful Resources

Web Extras

• “Opposing Plies and the Quest for Elasticity”
• “Kumihimo 101: Build a Marudai & Start Braiding Today”
• Dive deeper with “Kumihimo Next Steps”
• “A Special Gift, Jersey Style”
  
• “How to Use Wraps Per Inch and Twist Angle Tools”
  
• “Full of It: 6 Ways to Rough-Finish Handspun Yarn”
• “Plying Help! I’ve Spun a Singles in the Wrong Direction”

Learn how to use these tools to determine wraps per inch and the twist angle of your yarn. Photo by Pamela K. Schultz

Helpful Links for this Issue

Learn more about Berta’s Flax.

Learn about the Square Meter project.

Articles

• Learn why you might want to rewind your singles onto storage bobbins.
  
• Not sure which storage bobbins to choose? Start here!
  
• Learn about grist and why it matters.
• Confused by Bradford counts? Amy Tyler has the answers.
  
• Learn more about twists per inch.
• See how to use a drumcarder and diz to create a marled roving.
• Read how one spinner connected to her own history through flax.
• Learn how to spin a cabled yarn
  

Emily Wohlscheid creates marled yarns by using a blending technique rather than the typical method of spinning two contrasting singles and plying them together. Photos by Emily Wohlscheid

Helpful Courses

• Learn more about spinning flax into linen with Tom Knisely.
  
• New to rigid-heddle weaving? Learn how to direct warp a rigid heddle loom in this free course.
• Learn more about spinning energized singles in Kathryn Alexander’s classic course, Spinning Energized Yarns

Editor’s Letter

Explore more of the summer issue here!

There’s Still Time to SOAR

Don’t forget to sign up for the annual Spin Off Autumn Retreat, coming this October!

Read about a classic overplying technique from one of this year’s SOAR instructors, Amelia Garripoli, in the Summer issue. Then, learn more about Amelia and her classes here. We can’t wait to see you in October!

Find the Summer 2025 issue of Spin Off in the Spin Off Library, or in the Long Thread Media Shop.