PLY article index
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| Author | Article Title | Issue date | Issue number | Issue topic | Article topic list | Description |
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| Jacey Boggs Faulkner | Make a Yarn: with good clean fiber | PSG Season 1 | 11 | PSG: Make a Yarn | wool, CVM, loft, carded, double drafting | Prep and make a yarn with Jacey as she puts what Maggie taught us in the episode into practice. Using CVM, Jacey opens, cards, spins (double-draft), and plies a light and lofty yarn. |
| Jacey Boggs Faulkner | Start Drumcarding: Intro | PSG Season 1 | 11 | PSG: Start Drumcarding | drum carding |
Jacey introduces the episode and Roy Clemes. |
| Roy Clemes | Start Drumcarding: Meet the carder | PSG Season 1 | 11 | PSG: Start Drumcarding | drum carding, drum carder |
Roy Clemes, maker of Clemes & Clemes tools, introduces you to a carder, its parts, and how it works. |
| Roy Clemes | Start Drumcarding: All the toops | PSG Season 1 | 11 | PSG: Start Drumcarding | drum carding, diz, drum carder, flicker, lock pop |
There are a lot of tools you can use with a drum carder. Roy, Clemes & Clemes tool maker, explains each one and when you use it including burnishing brush, packing brush, flicker, cleaning brush, lock pop, diz, dowels, doffer, batt lifter, etc. |
| Roy Clemes | Start Drumcarding: Feeding the carder | PSG Season 1 | 11 | PSG: Start Drumcarding | drum carding, locks, drum carder, flicker, lock pop |
Roy teaches how to feed fiber into a drum carder, how to find each carder’s capacity, using a flicker and lock pop, and why to feed your locks in tip first. You might think you know how to drum card, but you’ll learn more than one new thing from Roy! |
| Tip Jar: What do you do with less-than-smooth or even yarns | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | textured/art yarn |
What do you do with yarns that aren’t smooth? Here are some ideas from PLY readers. |
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| Jacey Boggs Faulkner | Texture Through Fiber Prep | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Brittany Wilson | Prep It! Tweed for Texture | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Stealth Reviews: Majacraft Fusion Engine Carder | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | |||
| Steph Forin | Texture Through Corespinning | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Melissa Nasby | Spin It! Wire Corespinning | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Sony Hartley | Fabric Corespinning | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Esther Rodgers | Texture Through Inspiration | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Kim Perkins | Guilded: South West Art Yarn (SWAY Guild) | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Christina Pappas | Ancient Texture | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Linda Scharf | Spin It! 21st Century Metal-wrapped Yarn | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Lexi Boeger | Spin It! 21st Century Feather Yarn | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Franklin Habit | Lazy Kate's Guide to Thoroughly Unsatisfying Spinning (texture) | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Jillian Moreno | 28 Years of Texture: The inspiring influence of Diane Varney's Spinning Designer Yarns | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Vithard Villumsen | Spin It! Growing Yarn | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Angel Benedetti | Who's That Spinner? Adventures of an International Yarn Nomad | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Jacey Boggs Faulkner | Texture Through Plying | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Suzy Brown | Microtexture | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Carson Demers | Ergo Neo: Texture Therapy | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Tracy Hudson | Texture on a Spindle | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture |
