During lambing season, I spend more time with my Border Leicesters than at any other time of the year.
Devin offers tips for making space for spinning to suit any living situation, from a single spindle and a few ounces of fiber in a basket to a room filled with tools, a wheel, and fiber.
When repairing lace, you need to know how the lace pattern is knitted row by row.
One handspinner’s experiment to answer the question.
Florida native cotton’s staple length isn’t more than one inch, so it's a challenge to spin.
Learn how optical blending relies on the eye to blend the colors.
Want to add sparkle, fabric, and other goodies to your drumcarded batt? Adding a layered pile of fiber may not be the best way. Emily Wohlscheid explains why.
For the handspinner, spring cleaning means rediscovering, or finding, all of your misplaced bobbins, spindles, and fiber tools, and it can help jumpstart the organization process, too.
Fiber prep always looked to me like cooking: I like the results, and I’m glad someone else wants to do it, but I'd rather enjoy the results than get in the kitchen. So why did I clear my desk, clamp down a drumcarder, and look for bits of fiber to feed it?