PLY article index
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| Author | Article Title | Issue date | Issue number | Issue topic | Article topic list | Description |
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| Amelia Garripoli | Spindle Sommelier: Pair your fiber perfectly | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | spindles, fiber considerations | Do you have spindles that just don’t get as much love as others? Learn to pair them with the perfect fiber so everyone has a moment in the spotlight. |
| Helen Dyer | The Olden-Days Spinners of Tilting-on-Fogo | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | community |
Bridging the gap between modern hobby spinning and old daily labor in Newfoundland. |
| Leslie Thompson | Fiber Event Blueprint | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | community, planning |
The basics of planning a fiber event. |
| Stephanie Stratton | The Ins and Outs of Vending | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | community |
The basics of being a vendor at a fiber event. |
| Suzy Brown | Spin It! Collective Creativity, Part 1 | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | coils, textured/art yarn, color |
Creating a coiled and wrapped yarn from carded fiber, silk hankies, and a plying thread. |
| Esther Rodgers | Spin It! Collective Creativity, Part 2 | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | silk, corespinning, textured/art yarn, color |
Creating a coiled and wrapped yarn from carded fiber, silk hankies, and a plying thread. |
| Andrea Longo | Spin It! Big Top Shawl | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | Corriedale, dyeing, 3-ply, spin it, color |
Spinning a 3-ply yarn with long color gradients from Corriedale roving, and working with a remote collaborator. |
| Cheri McEwen | Knit It! Big Top Shawl | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | Corriedale, knit it, shawl, color |
Knitting pattern for a garter stitch shawl in fingering weight yarn, inspired by classic circus tents. |
| Kyle Kunnecke | Retreat, Men! | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | community |
Making connections and learning new skills in an increasingly inclusive crafting community. |
| Carol G. McFadden | Challenge Your Spinning: A community experience | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | community, expanding skills |
How to leverage your crafting community to challenge yourselves with new skills. |
| Christina Oliveri | The Road to Rhinebeck | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | community |
Organizing a sheep-to-shawl team for the Rhinebeck festival. |
| Jacey Boggs Faulkner | All the Drafts: The Long draws | PSG Season 1 | 6 | PSG: All the Drafts | double drafting, drafting, long draw, point of contact long draw, supported long draw, unsupported long draw |
Jacey introduces and walks you through 4 long draw drafts: Point-of-contact, supported, double-draft, and unsupported. |
| Jacey Boggs Faulkner | Make a Yarn: SBD with carded prep | PSG Season 1 | 6 | PSG: Make a Yarn | carded, e-spinner, short backward draft |
Make a yarn with Jacey as she spins a short backward draft with a carded prep on her Hansen e-spinner, all the while talking you through the process. She’s spinning warp yarn for the season 3 wall-hanging. |
| Jacey Boggs Faulkner | Wool Talk: Intro | PSG Season 1 | 6 | PSG: Wool Talk |
Jacey walks you through this episode and talks about how great Deb is! |
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| Deb Robson | Wool Talk: Wool Structure | PSG Season 1 | 6 | PSG: Wool Talk | wool |
Deb Robson, brilliant author of The Fleece and Fiber Source Book, gives us the lowdown on the structure of wool and how we know a lot less than we think we do! It’s a fascinating talk and will teach you quite a bit! |
| Deb Robson | Wool Talk: Felting | PSG Season 1 | 6 | PSG: Wool Talk | wool, felting |
Deb Robson, brilliant author of The Fleece and Fiber Source Book, talks about felting. Why and how does wool felt? Is it fibers locking together? Racheting? Plowing? and how do you keep it from happening? You’ll know so much more after listening to Deb! |
| Deb Robson | Wool Talk: Fiber Preperations | PSG Season 1 | 6 | PSG: Wool Talk | batts, cloud, combed top, fiber prep, punis, rolags, roving, sliver |
Deb Robson, brilliant author of The Fleece and Fiber Source Book, talks about fiber preparations. Rolag, puni, roving, batt, sliver, top, cloud? What does it all mean and how does it affect your spinning? Deb Robson explains it all! |
| Deborah Robson | Shetland Wool: There's no such thing as average | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | Shetland, color, sheep, breed-specific |
Whatever you know about Shetland wool, there’s more to learn! This article describes the broad variety of traits found in Shetland fleeces and how they can influence a final yarn. |
| Deborah Robson | Shetland Sheep & Wool: A crossover of communities | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | Shetland, community, sheep |
A diverse community surrounds the Shetland wool industry. |
| Franklin Habit | Lazy Kate's Guide to Thoroughly Unsatisfying Spinning (community) | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | community, humor |
Spinning-themed cartoon. |
| Deb Menz, Diane Palme | Deb & Diane Tie the Knot | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | weaving, color, community |
Two weavers share their experience of creating unique designs from the same parameters. |
| Larry Paullin | The Fiber Widower's Lament | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | personal reflections |
A personal account of being the partner to a fiber artist. |
| Lisa Conway | Who's That Spinner? Spinning for health and well-being with Alaska's Healing Hearts | Autumn 2014 | 6 | Community | community |
Introducing spinning to a veterans’ group for physical and emotional healing. |
| Tip Jar: How to approach singles twist and ply twist | Summer 2014 | 5 | Twist | plying, singles, twist |
Twist can be tricky, how much and where to put it being the main focus. Here, PLY readers offer their own answers for those questions. |
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| Amanda Hartrich | Wool Whispering | Summer 2014 | 5 | Twist | breed-focus, wool, Shetland, twist, experimenting |
