PLY article index
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| Author | Article Title | Issue date | Issue number | Issue topic | Article topic list | Description |
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| Stealth Reviews: HansenCrafts miniSpinner | Winter 2014 | 7 | Worsted | |||
| Carol Leonard | Worstead: A village that gave its name | Winter 2014 | 7 | Worsted | ||
| Penelope Hemingway | Spin It! The Inland River Gansey of Yorkshite: A lost tradition | Winter 2014 | 7 | Worsted | ||
| Penelope Hemingway | Knit It! River Gansey | Winter 2014 | 7 | Worsted | ||
| Carolyn Leigh Ferro | Follow the Fiber: Spinning as the Main Event: The Bodega Bay silk scarf | Winter 2014 | 7 | Worsted | ||
| Clara Quintela | Spin It! Rouge Skirt | Winter 2014 | 7 | Worsted | ||
| Clara Beauty | Knit It! Rouge Skirt | Winter 2014 | 7 | Worsted | ||
| Melanie Smith | Whot's That Spinner? Confessions of a Woolen Spinner | Winter 2014 | 7 | Worsted | ||
| Deb Robson | Wool Talk: You don't have to know everything to spin a yarn | PSG Season 1 | 7 | PSG: Wool Talk | wool | Deb Robson, brilliant author of The Fleece and Fiber Source Book, shares her insights on how you don’t have to know everything about spinning, to spin a yarn. If that were true, no yarn would ever get spun! She shows some of her handspun garments and how perfectly imperfect they are. Let her inspire you and set your mind at ease, then go spin! |
| Deb Robson | Make a Yarn: Deb Robson | PSG Season 1 | 7 | PSG: Make a Yarn | combed top, self-care |
Deb talks and walks you through making a yarn with combed top. Usually a natural wool spinner, she’s enamored with the color. She also talks about how her own body limitations require her to take extra steps to prepare her fiber for spinning. |
| Jacey Boggs Faulkner | Start Spinning: Intro | PSG Season 1 | 7 | PSG: Start Spinning |
Jacey introduces the new episode with Maggie and Heavenly for this episode that will get you spinning, even if it’s your first time! |
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| Maggie Casey | Start Spinning: Getting started on a wheel | PSG Season 1 | 7 | PSG: Start Spinning |
Are you brand new to spinning? Maggie Casey has taught more people to spin than anyone and she can teach you. Sit down at your wheel for the first time and let her be your guide. |
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| Heavenly Bresser | Start Spinning: Troubleshooting | PSG Season 1 | 7 | PSG: Start Spinning | tension, twist, troubleshooting |
Heavenly is great at helping people troubleshoot what’s going wrong with their spinning. This episode is just that, Heavenly working through some of the most common spinning hiccups including equipment malfunctions, bobbin woes, too much tension, too little tension, finding the right amount of twist, and more. |
| Maggie Casey | Start Spinning: Park and draft on a spindle | PSG Season 1 | 7 | PSG: Start Spinning | spindles, park and draft |
Are you brand new to spinning? Maggie Casey has taught more people to spin than anyone and she can teach you. Grab your spindle, take a seat and let’s park and draft. |
| Christina Pappas | Communities Through Time and Art | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | community, historical |
The story of textile production in Maya communities from the ancient to the modern. |
| Beth Smith | Spinning to Spec | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | planning |
How do you move from spinning whatever yarn you can to something specific? This article walks through working with parameters. |
| Glynda McIver | Spin It! Swing Step Cardigan | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | alpaca, blends, Shetland, 2-ply, spin it |
Spinning a Shetland/Suri blend fiber into a sweater quantity of 2-ply yarn. |
| Amy Herzog | Knit It! Swing Step Cardigan | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | alpaca, Shetland, 2-ply, knit it, sweater |
Knitting pattern for a cardigan with seed stitch accents in light fingering-weight yarn. |
| Robyn Love | Spindle 7 | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | spindles, community, personal reflection |
A personal reflection on the Spindle 7 project, bringing handspinning to a New York City train for connection and education. |
| Amanda Hartrich | Ravelers Spin Together | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | community |
A rundown of a few communities that have emerged on Ravelry.com. |
| Carson Demers | Ergo Neo: The ergonomics of connection | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | ergonomics, self-care |
More and more fiber communities connect online – protect your body while you explore! |
| Cassie Warholm-Wohlenhaus | Guilded: Minneapolis Weaver Guild of Minnesota | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | community |
A profile of the Minneapolis Weavers Guild of Minnesota and its collaboration with Sub-Saharan African immigrants and refugees. |
| Lynn Wigell, Naomi Ryono, Laura Mayotte, Tracy Hudson | Follow the Fiber: Hugs across the miles | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | community |
What began as a circle of fiber friends became a community of supporters for bigger concerns. |
| Shannon Herrick | Spin It! Wrapped Hat | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | Shetland, 3-ply, spin it |
Spinning a 3-ply yarn from Shetland wool. |
| Woolly Wormhead | Knit It! Wrapped Hat | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | Shetland, knit it, hat |
Knitting pattern for a beanie-style hat in heavy worsted weight yarn, which uses short rows for shaping through the body. |
