I love spinning cotton during the summer. I also enjoy small, hot-weather projects that let me get a quick crochet fix or use up small bits of yarn.
After a decade of spinning-focused travels, teaching, and writing, I’m off on a new adventure as editor of Spin Off magazine.
While I love all the seasons of a shepherd’s calendar, summer grazing is one of my favorites.
I love spinning for a project, constructing the handspun yarn I want, and seeing a thing I made grow right before my very eyes.
In her post “Roving Reporter: Spinning for Bandweaving,” Kate Larson confesses that she’s smitten with weaving narrow tapes.
California cotton breeder Sally Fox is most widely known for organic cottons that grow in a luscious range of tans, greens, and warm browns. Sally also keeps a growing flock of natural color Merinos roaming her Capay Valley fields—such fleecy goodness!
I've been stash diving as summer fades to fall. Most of what settles to the bottom of my stash are fibers that I like but have a problem to be solved.
Even with just a few quick passes through the marketplace, I came home buzzing with ideas and an armload of inspiring spinning fiber.
There are many ways to begin a new knitting with handspun project and work through the process of designing yarn, estimating fiber needed, choosing pattern and gauge, and staying consistent. I’ll share my approach with you step-by-step in a post series.
I’ve just resurfaced from Eugene Textile Center’s Fiber in the Forest retreat. This annual retreat welcomes fiber artists to delve deeper into their craft for three full days.
