Name: Bonny Acklin Spinning nickname: bonfiber Years spinning: 4 Location: Northwest Missouri Spinning tool of choice for spinzilla: Lendrum Original DT Favorite weight of yarn: Fingering.DK …since I love knitting socks and shawls Favorite fiber for fast spinning: anything crimpy, roving, batts and rolags Favorite treat to drink while spinning: beer with lime! Project you’ll be […]
Spinzilla invited me to be part of their 2015 blog tour. I was assigned the topic of plying and if there’s anything I know, it’s plying. I’ve plied even, I’ve plied off-tensioned, I’ve plied with a push up and a squiggle, I’ve plied the same yarn this way and that way and over and […]
Name: Christina Spinning nickname: Rogue of Wool years spinning: 15 Location: Denver, CO on my bike or wheel or, you know, in bed sometimes. Spinning tool of choice for spinzilla: trusty old Ashford Traveller, for the gypsy girl Favorite weight of yarn: I prefer any weight depending on the style of yarn, but comfort knitting […]
Name: Kat Spinning nickname: AsKatKnits (and spins) years spinning: ohmigosh – since 2007! How time flies when you are having fun! Location: Pittsburgh PA Spinning tool of choice for spinzilla: Schacht Matchless Favorite weight of yarn: Light fingering, but always working towards my penultimate yarn weight, a lovely gossamer lace weight. Favorite fiber for fast […]
Spinzilla: PLY Magazine Team Roster — Lydia Martin Spinning nickname: Dream Catcher years spinning: One… and growing Location: Fort Collins Spinning tool of choice for spinzilla: Top Gun Soundtrack Favorite weight of yarn: The one that is lightest on my pocketbook Favorite fiber for fast spinning: Whatever is prepped into easy to grab rolags Favorite […]
And now it’s time for another “what Jacey doing this week” post. I hope you don’t get tired of reading these. I was just telling Jillian this morning, at the board meeting, that writing them is pretty helpful to me. Almost like a huge data dump of everything I have to do for the week, […]
If you’re one of the PLY readers that missed out on issue #2 and #3 (Color and Woolen), guess what? We are reprinting! However, since we are a small operation, we don’t have green enough just sitting around, so we’re going to have to do what we did for the Summer 2013 (#1, first). Here’s […]
Thanks everyone, for participating! And after using this random number generator, we have a winner! Kimberly Burnett-Dean of the great state of Virginia (which I hear is for lovers). I’ll be sending the fiber out to her this week. Thanks to Anne Podlesak for the pattern and the Wooly Wonka Fibers fiber. Stay tuned […]
How about another installment of learning to make a magazine? First to set the stage — here’s where we are in the grand scheme of cycles and status: End of the Autumn 2014 cycle Middle of the Winter 2014 cycle Planning of the Summer 2015 cycle That sounds easy enough, right? Let’s look closer, things […]
