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Monster Battle: 4 Ways to Combat A Wool Moth Invasion

Guarding your stash from a wool moth invasion doesn’t have to be a monstrous battle.

5 Tips to Keep Your Handspinning Resolutions

For some reason, I have no trouble keeping handspinning resolutions. Need motivation? Here are my top 5 tips for jumpstarting your spinning practice.

Roving Reviews: Color and Yarn Design with Deb Menz

Deb Menz has been one of my most important color resources for more than a decade. I took a three-day dyeing workshop with her that laid the groundwork for my own understanding of color in fiber arts.

Where’s Kate? Top 5 Roving Reporter Blog Posts of 2017

It’s no wonder that we look forward to Kate Larson’s latest Roving Reporter—we can’t wait to see what she’s been up to!

Shetland Handspun: Meet Elizabeth Johnston

When I visited Shetland several years ago, I met one of its most famous handspinners.

11 Yarn Structure Handspinning Tips from 40 Years of Spin Off

Since we are celebrating our birthday, we just had to share some of the coolest handspinning tips from the first 40 years of Spin Off magazine.

12 More Handspinning Tips from 40 Years of Spin Off

Looking back at the abundance of handspinning tips published in the pages of Spin Off over the last 40 years, it became challenging to narrow it down.

Nature’s Take on the Pantone Color of the Year 2018: The Murex Snail

The Pantone Color of the Year 2018, Ultra Violet, takes a new look at an ancient color. Purple has been a royal color for thousands of years, and once it was derived from a mollusk.