PLY article index
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| Author | Article Title | Issue date | Issue number | Issue topic | Article topic list | Description |
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| Cirilia Rose | Texture in Knitting: Swatch Theory | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Cirilia Rose | Knit It! Medulla Pullover | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Maja Siska | Spin It! Thelatog Hoodie | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Maja Siska | Knit It! Thelatog Hoodie | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Melissa Ricks | Texture in Weaving: Weaving in a Circle | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Melissa Ricks | Handspun & SAORI | Autumn 2015 | 10 | Texture | ||
| Heavenly Bresser, Jacey Boggs Faulkner | Teacher Tea: with Heavenly Bresser | PSG Season 1 | 10 | PSG: Teacher Tea | personal reflection | Heavenly Bresser and Jacey drink and spill the tea as they chat about spinning, wheels, family, and life. |
| Jacey Boggs Faulkner | New to Fleece: Intro | PSG Season 1 | 10 | PSG: New to Fleece | fleece |
Are you new to working with fleece? Here’s a place to start… Jacey introduces good clean fiber and what we’re going to do with it! |
| Maggie Casey | New to Fleece: Fiber to start with | PSG Season 1 | 10 | PSG: New to Fleece | fleece, fiber considerations |
Maggie Casey, the woman who has taught more people to spin than anyone we know, talks about the best fiber to start with if you’re new to working with fleece. Spoiler, it’s a medium wool! |
| Maggie Casey | New to Fleece: Teasing | PSG Season 1 | 10 | PSG: New to Fleece | teasing, fiber prep, fleece |
Maggie Casey, author of Start Spinning, walks us through the first step when you’ve got good clean fiber — teasing! It’s slow and meditative and she gives you the best method she’s found after working her way through thousands of fleeces. |
| Maggie Casey | New to Fleece: Handcarding | PSG Season 1 | 10 | PSG: New to Fleece | hand carding, fiber prep, rolags |
Learn to make light and fluffy rolags with fiber expert, Maggie Casey. |
| Tip Jar: How do you find the end after it's broken off and buried itself in the bobbin? | Summer 2015 | 9 | Fine |
It happens to all of us, our yarn end gets buried in the yarn on our bobbin. Here are the best ways that PLY readers have found to recover it. |
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| Susan Glinert Stevens | Spinning for Lace | Summer 2015 | 9 | Fine | fine, lace | |
| Sylvia Becker | Beadlizard Chimes In | Summer 2015 | 9 | Fine | fine, personal reflection | |
| Christina Pappas | Old Lace | Summer 2015 | 9 | Fine | lace, historical | |
| Beth Abbott | Why Spin Thin? | Summer 2015 | 9 | Fine | fine, consistency | |
| Jill Graham | The Wool Is Fine | Summer 2015 | 9 | Fine | fine, wool, Bond, Merino, Corriedale, Cormo, Rambouillet, CVM, Romeldale, Targhee, Polwarth, breed-specific | |
| Bitsy Cohen | Spin It! Fine from the Lock | Summer 2015 | 9 | Fine | spin it, fine, fleece, Cormo, Romney, Merino, teasing, flicking, combing | |
| Natasha Sills | Spin It! Chunky to Thin | Summer 2015 | 9 | Fine | spin it, bulky, fine, tension, expanding skills | |
| Beth Smith | Fine Tune Your Wheel | Summer 2015 | 9 | Fine | fine, tension, brake band, drive band, bobbin-led (Irish tension), crosslacing, flyer led (scotch tension) | |
| Stephenie Gaustad | Ready for a Charkha | Summer 2015 | 9 | Fine | charkha, fine | |
| Alden Amos, Julitha Barber, Jessie Driscoll | Hot Button: Best Drive for Fine | Summer 2015 | 9 | Fine | fine, flyer-led (scotch tension), double drive | |
| Caroline Foty | The Canadian Production Wheel | Summer 2015 | 9 | Fine | fine, CPW |
The Canadian Production Wheel (CPW) was engineered to spin fine yarn fast. It is a double-drive, Saxony-style wheel with a large drive wheel. This article explores the history of this wheel. |
| Lorinda Chard | Why Is a CPW Perfect for Fine Spinning? | Summer 2015 | 9 | Fine | fine, CPW | |
| Carson Demers | Ergo Neo: Fine Singles | Summer 2015 | 9 | Fine | fine, ergonomics, singles |
