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Tips in Motion

What I love about spinning is the generosity of the process. Spinning is not like making TNT, where the steps and proportions have to be perfectly precise (or else), or like computer programming, where every step has to be in logical order. With spinning...

Published Mar 3, 2010 10:32 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: linda, ligon, zucchini, video, submissions
Popular Wheel Mechanics, The DVD

I taught myself to spin in 1971. I didn't have a book. I'm not sure I'd ever even watched anybody spin on a wheel. I did have a 15-minute tutorial on using a drop spindle (emphasis on "drop"). My wheel was an old upright Swiss table...

Published Feb 17, 2010 9:50 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: ligon, spinning, dvd, lindada, judith, mackenzie, draw
Knitting Traditions

I'll never forget my first encounter with Richard Rutt's wonderful book, The History of Handknitting . I was attending the Frankfurt Book Fair for the first time, and was pretty overwhelmed by its vastness, variety, verbal hubbub (and my lack...

Published Jan 13, 2010 3:08 PM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: linda, ligon, knitting, piecework
How Big is Your Yarn? It Depends.

Are you one of those spinners who wants everything to be precise? Who believes all yarn is either woolen or worsted, nothing in between? Who believes an inch is an inch, and that's the end of the story? Do not read further. I've just been reviewing...

Published Dec 2, 2009 12:31 PM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: linda, ligon, e-book, buchanan, rita, measure, taking
Spinner's Questions? Ask Rita Buchanan

My first question, when I was learning to spin many decades ago, was "why does this darn doorknob thingy keep dropping on the floor?" Well, that was a long time ago, and it really was a wooden doorknob on a dowel, and I was trying to spin grease...

Published Oct 21, 2009 12:42 PM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: linda, ligon, e-book, buchanan, rita, spinner's, questions
A New Spinning DVD is Born

Picture this: Spinning diva Abby Franquemont, a woodshop, a couple of aluminum ladders for props, two rowdy kittens. Add: three video cameras, a bunch of lights, a sound system, some camera guys. Result? Drafting: The Long and Short of It , an hour of...

Published Oct 14, 2009 10:01 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: linda, ligon, dvd, kittens, abby, woolen, franquemont, worsted, drafting
Every Day's a Holiday!

Or: why spinners need their own special calendar Old hippies have their own special calendar (so they can find out on what day "A Whiter Shade of Pale" hit the top of the charts). Mathematicians have their own calendar (in case they need a reminder...

Published Aug 19, 2009 8:21 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: spindle, linda, ligon, calendar, spin-off, 2010, wall, zucchini
Goodbye, spindle spinning

Last post, I was asking the world at large whether men of the Guatemalan highlands still spin wool on drop spindles, as they did when Olive and Harry Linder visited there in the late 1970s. Having spent several days chasing the answer, I have to say it’s...

Published Feb 18, 2009 1:16 PM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: Guatemala, linda, ligon, rodilleras, travel

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