PLY article index

From beginning to end, grown, harvest, and process your own flax in a small space.

With years of experience, Patsy gives the low-down on how to choose the right amount of twist for flax and how to insert it.

An article exploring and explaining the process of spinning flax tow.

Once you spin your flax tow into handspun yarn, here’s a wonderful market bag to knit.

Spinning flax on a Turkish spindle has never been easier than when Wanda Jenkins is teaching you.

Here’s a sweet little lace choker necklace to knit out of your handspun flax.

Was flax our first fiber? This article by a fiber archeologist and spinner explores flax and its place in our fiber history.

Learn about the Montgomeryshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers.

Learn to spin flax on a spindle.

A fascinating deep dive into an organization trying to further the growing and use of flax.

An instructive article about spinning flax tow on an e-spinner. It covers how to set up the wheel, use water, how much twist to use, and how to finish the yarn.

A great little weaving project using handspun linen.

Are you a dyer? This article is all about doing it safely.

Three great spinners give their opinion on whether you should dye flax fiber or linen yarn.

A yarn isn’t done until it’s finished. Patsy, with years of experience, gives you the best method for washing and finishing your linen yarns.

Flax can be bought in several ways. This article explores bleached and unbleached flax and the impact it has on the fiber, spinning, and the planet.

Once you’ve created linen cloth, how should it be finished? This article experiments with several finishing methods and reports on the results.

How do you spin down the stash with a spinning plan in mind? Readers give us their best tips

This article discusses how to figure out the yield from a fleece after washing and processing it. The author uses examples of several different fleece, both coated and uncoated: Cormo, Wensleydale, Coopworth, and Romney.

This article talks about the process of preparing a raw fleece for spinning and how to sample the fleece to make decisions about how to spin the fiber and what you might make from it.

The author discusses her personal journey of finding time and joy in daily spinning after a break and shares the lessons she learned along the way.

This article talks about how to make a specific space for your fiber arts storage and crafting.

This article talk about how to plan a yarn for a pattern that uses a commercial yarn based upon the information provided about that yarn.

This article explains how to spin the yarn used in the mitts pattern included in this issue. It explains what twined knitting is and what considerations should be made for the yarn.