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Roving Reporter: Fiber Festivals and Spinning Therapy

I recently spent a great weekend teaching at a fiber festival not far from home. For many people in my classes, this is their one fiber-filled weekend of the year complete with time to meet other spinners and shop for new fiber treats.

That’s Spinnertainment: The Shepherd’s View

Rebanks is back, camera in hand, with a new volume, The Shepherd’s View: Modern Photographs from an Ancient Landscape.

Tales of a Beginning Spinner: Lesson One

I started working at Interweave with a very basic knowledge of fiber arts, but ever the creative and curious individual, I was eager to dive in. Next thing I know, I’m lugging around a wheel and a bag of fiber.

Roving Reporter: Navigating Neps and Noils in Roving

Unexpected texture? Here are a few ways to deal.

Adventures in Washing Wool Yarn

Here’s what I learned from Kate about washing wool yarns.

Tales of a Beginning Spinner: Change Your Whorl, Change Your Yarn

Until now, I had been spinning on the larger of two whorls on the spinning wheel; lesson two began with switching the whorls.

Yarnitecture: A Knitter’s Guide to Spinning

Like an on-screen love affair, it is captivating to witness Jillian Moreno’s passion for handspinning in Yarnitecture: A Knitter’s Guide to Spinning.