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10 Reasons Why Spinning Yarn Is the BEST Craft

It’s not a contest, they say. Sure, we’re all winners. But in my competitive little heart, I know that spinning yarn is the very best craft, a better way than any other to spend your time.

Your Yarns: Making Choices

For the theme Making Choices, we requested yarns that feature the same fiber spun two different ways.

Tool Profile: Drumcarder

A drumcarder is a fiber preparation tool used for aligning fiber, blending, and creating batts.

Tales of a Beginning Spinner: Spinning like a Millennial with the Electric Spinning Wheel

Going from the drop spindle to an electric spinning wheel is like jumping from an ancient era into a modern one. The spindle is a primitive tool that requires patience and dedication; the e-spinner is a device designed for efficiency and, perhaps, instant

Spinning Is Always the Right Decision

Spin Off themes are pretty relaxed; we think of them as prompts instead of narrowly focused plans. The Spring 2017 issue focused on making decisions—a spinner’s greatest challenge and opportunity. Whether they were choosing between two ways of prepari

That’s Spinnertainment: In the Footsteps of Sheep

Intertwining her passions for spinning, knitting, and walking, Debbie uses her handspun and handknitted socks to record “a journey around Scotland spinning and knitting the fleece of the Scottish sheep breeds in their native haunts.” This travel memoi

First Fiber of the New Year

The first few days of the New Year are some of favorites. In the early years of my spinning and knitting obsession, I would use this time to tidy and tally my UFOs (unfinished objects) that were languishing in my fiber closet. No more. I finally realized

Healing Fibers Foundation

Lynne Rule of the Healing Fibers Foundation is on a mission to bring fiber arts to everyone, especially people with serious health issues.