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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 […]
Travelling with spindles
Words by Sissel Ellevseth “The travelling itself is part of the journey,” my dad always said when my siblings and I started complaining about being bored in the back seat. The 1000-km drive to visit my grandparents in Vesterålen almost took the joy out of the summer vacation for us. Today, I don’t think much […]
Call for Tips
We’d love to get your tips for our Winter issue on Warmth. If you want to spin the warmest yarn, what fiber/fiber blend would you use? (If you’d like to include what draft and plying you would combine in that fiber, please do!) Head over to the Tip Jar submission page and send us your […]
