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Spinning Tips: Troubleshooting

No matter how long you’ve been a spinner, there comes a time when your wheel won’t do what you want it to do. Here’s a handy checklist of solutions for the most common spinning wheel problems.

Suffolk, Tunis, Dorset: A Spinner’s Ode to “Meat Sheep”

Looking for socks that don’t slouch and sweaters that hold their shape? Give these sheep breeds a second look.

What is a bouclé yarn?

Sarah Anderson offers tips for spinning this textured yarn.

4 Reasons to Love Our (Free) Black Friday Features

What’s better than easy-to-come-by deals? Oh, yeah—free ones.

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Try a New Silk Prep: Kim McKenna’s Tussie Mussie

Struggling with silk slivers? Add this easy technique to your spinner’s toolbox.

What’s More Fun than Cooking at Thanksgiving?

Linda serves up a treat for your holiday weekend.

Memory: Spin Off Winter 2023

Crimp, resilience and connection tie the threads of memory together through fiber.

How (and Why) to Wind Charkha Singles onto Storage Bobbins

Can you use book-style charkhas for big projects? Yes, you can. Learn how I store my cotton singles for plying with this short video.

Head to Head: Two E-spinners

Electric Eel wheels offer an affordable way to get your hands on an e-spinner. Made mostly of plastic, these wheels are lighter than many of their counterparts and easy to travel with. How does the purse-sized model stack up to a tabletop style?

Long Thread Podcast: Jeanne Carver, Shaniko Wool

Season 5, Episode 8: On the high desert rangelands of the Imperial Stock Ranch, Jeanne Carver's family is showing what sustainability really means: with careful stewardship, what's good for sheep can be excellent for the earth.