Spin-Off

You’ll discover helpful techniques that are designed to help everyone, from the beginning spinner to the most advanced. Learn how to dye your own fibers, plying basics, fiber preparation and combining colored fibers to make novelty yarns. Plus great patterns to show off your handspun yarns.

EDITOR’S LETTER

Spin-Off • Vol. XLVIII No. 4 Winter2025

Printing with Natural Dyes

The 2024 Spin Off Spin-Along: Colorwork

Holiday Gift Guide • Find the perfect gift this season for the creator in your life. These are some we can’t stop talking about!

A Cusco Spin-In • From Alpaca to Yarn in a Day

Alpaca for Life: Notes from the High Andes

Equinox Cowl

New to the Moebius Cast-On?

Equinox Cowl: Holding Strands of Handspun Scraps Together for a Bulky Yarn

Adding Locks as an Intermittent Third Ply

Give It a Try!

Time Traveling • with Swiss Valais Blacknose Sheep

What Is Upgrading?

KCL Woods

Woven Shadows • with Naturally Colored Cotton

In Search of Wild Silk • Eri—Samia ricini

December 2011: Second Visit with Bharati

An Artist’s Approach to Carding Color • Build Palettes with Value Keys

En Plein Air Half-Mitts

Andrea Lui • Owner, The Knitting PT

Wool or Hair • Should Handspinners Care?

Eph Jensen Livestock • Maintaining a Family Tradition of Sheep Ranching in Utah

How Does It Spin?

Vanessa’s Legacy Shawl

Retail Shop Directory

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