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 […]
Man alive, did you just love Anne Podlesak’s new design in the Twist issue of PLY? I adore it. I also adore the woman that modeled it for us. So wonderful. We were just out shooting and out runs this woman with my book in hand asking me to sign it, saying she’d just taken […]
Spinzilla — there are a whopping 56 teams of awesomeness this year and we’re one of them! Each team is allowed 25 spinners and those spinners spin spin spin from Oct 6-11th. Then all the yardage is counted up and whichever team has more — wins! Of course it does other things too, good things — […]
Everybody that’s been with us from the beginning knows that we, collectively, knew nothing about running a magazine when this whole adventure started, right? Nothing. The big ZERO (coincidentally, the same of stitches I’ve knit in the last month). I hadn’t the foggiest what made Amy Clark Moore and Linda Cortright so tired. Now I do. […]
