You are SCENE! Feast your eyeballs on these upcoming fiber events submitted by our readers! July 11 – 13: Wyoming Sheep & Wool Festival, Buffalo, Wyoming July 19 – 20: Fiber U, Lebanon, Missouri July 25 – 26: Fiber Christmas in July, Kellyville, Oklahoma July 26 – 27: Prairie City Fiber Fest, Prairie City, Oregon […]
Tension is one of those elements we use all the time while we spin. We’ve got a whole issue packed full of great information on how tension figures into and impacts your spinning! Wheel tension and wheel systems: How do they work and which works best for what type of yarn? James Perry and Heavenly […]
Mood board: Autumn 2026 – Sericulture Proposals due by: September 1, 2025 Final work due by: March 1, 2026 Got something to say about silk? We sure hope so because we’re planning a big silk – sericulture – issue for Autumn 2026, and we want you to share your tips, experiences, techniques, and anything else […]
Ding! Ding! Ding! The second episode of the second (worsted) season of the PLY Guild has dropped and is ready for your viewing pleasure! It’s a great episode filled with lots of information about choosing fibers for worsted yarns. We’ll see you again with a new episode in six weeks (but in the meantime, come […]
Dear Jillian, I am having the worst time parallel drafting! My fibers don’t draft well, there’s clumping, and one color frequently falls away. Can you give me some tips to make it easier? ~Tess (and others) in Jillian’s class at Maryland Sheep and Wool Hi Tess, Parallel drafting may be my favorite color spinning technique, […]
I’ve heard lots of people talk about how there are different joins for different kinds of spinning. I’m not even super good at the one join I do (I kind of tease out the fiber at the end of my new yarn and then lay new fiber over it and hope it all gets twisted […]
Mood Board: Summer 2026 – Purpose Proposals due by: June 1, 2025 Final work due by: December 1, 2025 Although spinning up a gorgeous skein of yarn seems like a project in and of itself, ultimately most handspun yarn is used to create something else. So how do you spin with a purpose in mind? […]
We’ve just released our 48th issue, which is really exciting as there’s lots of great new content to share with you. Sometimes, though, you might want to return to previous issues to look up something you remember reading or a new interest you’ve developed. But that can be challenging with so many back issues and […]
