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Roving Reporter: Spin Carded Wool Cloud Three Ways

Carded wool cloud is famously forgiving to spin—woolen, worsted, and any drafting technique in between are all options to try.

Combing Wool: Static Control

Spritzing a lubricant onto your locks of wool will make combing easier. Here are three recipes to try.

What’s On (or Off) Your Feet When You’re at the Spinning Wheel?

While you’re keeping your eyes on your drafting and your feet are treadling away at the spinning wheel, what’s on your feet?

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Ready for Texture? Try Garneting In This New Mini-Course

Learn how to spin luscious handspun textures using recycled bits of yarn, silk, and more!

Spin Off Submissions Summer 2025: Balance

Color balance, twist balance, spindle balance—spinners have balance on the brain. We want to hear your ideas!

Colorwork: Spin-Along 2024 Gallery

The 2024 spin-along prompted participants to incorporate colorwork in all its magnificent forms. See the resulting socks and mittens, sweaters and slippers—even a lovable sheep!

Spinning Tips: What Are Roving, Top, and Sliver?

Learn about some of the most common types of fiber preparations available to the modern handspinner.

Gallery of Handspun Haps

A traditional Shetland hap pattern inspired these ambitious spinners to create beautiful versions of their own using treasured handspun.

Project Planning Toolkit: Why You Need a Yarn Balance

Calculating the yardage for a project needn’t be a challenge. Meet a handy tool every handspinner should have: the yarn balance.

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Wet-Finishes for Yarn: It All Comes Out in the Wash

Read the 2007 article that changed the way many spinners think about finishing their skeins.