By Jacqueline Harp Instagram @foreverfiberarts Using Schacht Hand Carders When you want warmth, loft, and individuality, you spin woolen-style yarns. Yarns made from woolen fiber preps or with a woolen…
Designed and made by Nancy Ellison ellisonsheepfarm.com My local Zumbro River Fiber Arts Guild always has an annual project. This year, we're making ornaments for a tree to donate to…
Designed and spun by Ilze Tomsevics zvaigzne-designs.com Spun on the Sidekick Spinning Wheel I have always enjoyed weaving and knitting with textured yarns, whether for an accent area or the…
by Deb Gerish My color-blending journey began with a specific goal of designing and spinning colors for Fair Isle knitting. Once I learned a little color theory and understood how…
by Stephanie Flynn Sokolov I have been smitten with color since preschool. I remember my teacher adding red food coloring to a large glass pitcher of water, then making a…
by Deb Gerish Once you understand the basics of color theory, you have a lot more control over fiber colors. In Part 1, we explored hue, value, and saturation using…
Designed and woven by Mackenzie Keller, Stephanie Flynn Sokolov, and Sienna Bosch Spun by Deb Gerish Weaving with your handspun yarn is simple and rewarding. To illustrate the possibilities of…
By Deb Gerish Spinners have a lot of artistic control over their raw material. We can choose a fiber or fibers to spin, then we can manipulate diameter, twist, plies,…
by Mother of Purl motherofpurl.net Sometimes the fiber tells us what yarn it wants to make, and sometimes we plan a spin from start to finish. When some local alpaca…
Designed by Stephanie Flynn Sokolov Make snowballs without freezing your hands! Then hang them all over your house for winter décor. Pom-pom snowballs will never melt and the whole family…
by Alexander Reynoso www.alexcreates.us Lockspinning is one of my favorite art yarn techniques. Yarn spun in this way resembles the sheep, goat, or alpaca you're spinning. It can be a…
Jillian spins our new Larimer Street Spinning Fiber on the Flatiron Wheel with the Bulky Plyer Flyer Package! By Jillian Moreno I love spinning bulky yarn—there is such instantaneous joy…
Designed by Stephanie Flynn Sokolov This snuggly textured scarf combines several spinning and weaving techniques. Spin a thick-and-thin yarn and a smooth fingering-weight yarn. Set up your rigid heddle loom…
Complete project instructions and special tips for Deb’s Dessert Wax Bowl and Water Lily Cushions, designed during the Spring Quarantine Spin-along of 2020. Dessert Wax Bowl Finished size: approximately 3″…
From our Spring Quarantine Spin Along 2020. View the first post here. ~ Welcome back, Spinners! I've finally started knitting things with my Colorful Colorado Spring handspun yarn and wanted…
From our Spring Quarantine Spin Along. Read the first post here, post #2 here, and post #3 here. We know that chain plying works a kind of magic when you're spinning…
From our Spring Quarantine Spin Along 2020. You can read blog post #1 here and post #2 here. As Deb has been spinning up a storm with our Colorful Colorado…
From our Spring Quarantine Spin Along 2020. You can read her first post here. It goes by several names: chain plying, Navajo plying, and all the variant spellings of "Navajo."…
From our Spring Quarantine Spin Along 2020. Read the rest of the posts in our blog! by Deb Gerish Mission: spin yarn from hand-dyed fiber by Greenwood Fiberworks, in an…
Skeins of yarn have a beauty all their own, yet in my humble opinion, they don't really come to life until they're used in a project. In addition, that final…
True confession: I am not a designer or an artist. I make stuff from other people's patterns. My training didn't happen in art school; it comes from a few spinning…
Have you ever fallen in love with a braid of hand-dyed fiber and then wondered what on earth to do next? I have experienced this phenomenon more times than I…
I was thrilled when the folks at Schacht asked me to participate in Schacht’s 50th anniversary fun with a blog post, and even more excited when I learned I’d be…
When people ask me what I like about spinning, I tell them that I love having complete control over the whole process, and that I can make any yarn that…
There is something downright magical about spinning your own yarn. Creating something out of nothing, and letting your inner-most yarn dreams come true in the process. In this post and…
If you’ve avoided spinning cotton on your wheel because of the fiber’s reputed need for special equipment or you’ve heard that it’s a difficult spin, have I got news for…
After my last post on spinning fractal yarn, I wasn't quite happy with the idea. The premise of the technique is sound, but it isn't truly a fractal in the…
I can’t get enough color in my life! My favorite thing is to spin hand-dyed top because there are so many different ways the colors can play out. I’ve been…
Storage bobbins make my yarn better. I’ve been using storage bobbins and a bobbin winder for years, but only recently realized how indispensable they have become to my spinning. Having…
A few years ago, just as I was learning to spin, my wife went on a road trip to South Dakota. When they returned, they brought back alpaca roving and…
