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Mood Board for Summer 2019

Summer 2019: Suspended Spindles

Summer 2019 is the summer of suspended spindles and we need your help! Can you give our readers a primer on the different types of spindles around? How about a basic how-to for those new to the spindle game? Are you itching to build a spindle glossary or are you a fount of information about different woods and how they perform as spindles? Have you ever been told that you’re holding your spindle incorrectly? Let’s talk about hand positions: what’s efficient, what’s comfortable, and what works best for different types of hand health and dexterity. We’d love to see different drafting techniques on suspended spindles: short forward, long draw, from the fold. Let’s help spinners create a full range of woolens to worsteds! What spindle weights are good for what? How do you store your spindles and how do you store your cops for plying later? Are you passionate about the origins and history of spindles? So are we and we want you to share that with our readers. Can you describe the differences, advantages, and disadvantages of where your whorl is? How about Turkish spindles? Do you wind the best cop? How about methods for plying on a spindle? Textured yarns on a spindle? Chain-plying? Are there fibers that don’t work so well with suspended spindles; what about ones that are perfectly suited? We need projects too, big and small! Do you want to write about spindle spinning faster, more efficiently, slow and steady, in public, in line at the grocery store, at your kid’s soccer game? We want it all. This issue is going to be a head to toe spinning extravaganza all about the suspended spindle. We want to celebrate these small but mighty tools and we want you to help us! Email your proposals, ideas, and project glimmers to jacey@plymagazine.com by June 1^st and we’ll let you know in July, with articles and projects due Dec 1, 2018.

Shepherds and dyers: we always need great fiber for our issues, if you raise or dye fiber and want to be involved! Get in touch, as well!