Spin Off Winter 2026 Web Extras & Helpful Resources

Welcome to the landing page for the Spin Off Winter 2026 issue! Here we’ve gathered all the issue's web extras. Plus, find even more articles, podcasts, and courses to help you dive deeper into the tools, techniques and topics explored in the Fall issue!

Web Extras

• Loving Linen Learn more spinning and weaving secrets for linen from Tom Knisely and customize your linen bread bag.

• Fill Your Bag Once you’ve made a bread bag, you’ll need some bread! Find three recipes to warm your kitchen.

• Spindle Jump Start Whether you’re a brand-new spinner or an experienced spinner wanting to brush up on drop spindling basics, there’s something for you in Maggie Casey’s free video course.

• Twine a Yarn Cozy Who says swatches have to live at the bottom of a drawer or bin? Create a useful practice swatch with twined knitting.

• Get Hooked Find rug hooking basics to start you on your rug hooking journey.

• Dip into Dyeing Get 10 ways to start dyeing, no matter your skill level, with dye recipes and techniques for both natural and acid dyes.

Easily dye a lovely color with a bath of marigolds and onion skins

Recommended Articles

• Read more from Tom Knisely about Spinning Flax—No Distaff Required!

• Find more drop spindle pointers with Kate Larson’s tips for using a half-hitch to secure your leader and Riley Kleve’s tutorial on removing slubs from your handspun.

• Learn about Dyeing with Lac in Laos from Joshua Hirshstein and Maren Beck.

• Explore more color adventures with Brian McCarthy Read the first installment, “Natural Dyeing, Navajo Plying, and the Australian Outback” in Spin Off Winter 2019 and the second installment, “Color Play with Plant-Dyed Tops,” in Spin Off Spring 2023.

• Get Josefin Waltin’s take on twined knitting in Twist Analysis: Twined Knitting, and read about Kate Larson’s adventures in spinning and plying for twined knitting.

• Learn more about llama fiber with Dr. Annamarie Hatcher.

Learn a two-color cast on for twinned knitting

Helpful Courses

• Weaving with Linen with Tom Knisely.

• Learn traditional techniques for spinning flax and cotton with Norman Kennedy.

• Learn Doubleweave Basics with Jennifer Moore.

• Try Predrafting for Spinning with Maggie Casey.

• Brush up on your Spindle Spinning Essentials with Devin Helmen.

Improve your spindle spinning with techniques from Devin. Photo from Spindle Spinning Essentials

Projects

Find each of this issue’s projects as a printable download in the Spin Off Library.

• Farmer’s Doubleweave Bread Bag by Tom Knisely

• Growth Pattern Shawl by Jennifer Miller Comstock

• Nova Scotia Tam by Barbara Kelly-Landry

• Versatile Twined Headband by Joan Goldstein

If you’re not yet a subscriber, you won’t want to miss out on all the great articles and projects in the Winter 2026 issue!

Plus, get the new A Celebration of Scarves and Shawls eBook with 14 patterns. Typically, this eBook is an All Access premium, but right now we’re running a Black Friday special where you get a copy of the eBook with any subscription!