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The Basics Issue is coming: sneak peek
The new issue of PLY is almost ready! Make sure you get your subscription in/renewed by August 25th to get this fantastic issue. The Basics issue is anything but basic! Since all of us learn about spinning in vastly different ways, in various places, and at different times, we’ve all got knowledge gaps. This issue […]
Putting Your Best Skein Forward: Tips for Preparing Skeins for Fair Competition
words and photos by Sue Meissner You may be considering entering a skein in the handspun competition of a fair, but you may not know how to enter. Or you may have entered but did not have a pleasing outcome. Let’s talk about how to put your best skein forward – not in terms of […]
Reader Feature: Ilona Vitti
Although disappointed at having PLYAway canceled this year, Ilona didn’t let that stop her from expanding her spinning knowledge and experience. Tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got started spinning. My alter ego is a cat, so curiosity must be satisfied. Every year at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival, I stop […]
Don’t miss the best new book around!
A Spinner’s Dozen: 14 darn useful toolswritten and illustrated by Stephenie GaustadAvailable in print and digital versions What the heck is a heck? In A Spinner’s Dozen: 14 Darn Useful Tools, Stephenie Gaustad shines a light on tools for fiber and yarn management that will make your yarn more consistent and spinning more productive. Drawing […]
A woman’s work was never done: spinning in medieval art
by Judy Kavanagh If you were a woman in medieval Europe (between the 5th and 15th centuries CE), you would have had many chores to perform every day such as cooking, cleaning, looking after children – and spinning. You would have needed to produce large quantities of thread from both wool and flax to weave […]
