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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.

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Before the Lazy Kate • A Six-Spouted Plying Vessel from Germany

Designing On the Go with Doodle Decks

Robin and Andy Nistock

Yagaa • Reviving Sericulture in Southern Mexico

Crocheted Silk Drop Earrings

Telling Your Color Story • Find Color Inspiration in Your Photo Album

Primary Shift • A Simple Method to Make Complex Color

Dyeing in the Baking Aisle

Fire at the Ross Farm • Historic structure and sheep destroyed

Knudsen Knits: Sourcing & Milling Local Heritage-Breed Wool

Spinning the Right Way—and the Left

Exploring S- and Z-Twist

The Woodworker’s Daughter

Speckles and Tonals • Hapazome Dyeing Techniques on Fiber & Yarn

Using Invasive Plants as Natural Dyes

Revisiting the Combo Spin

What’s a Fractal?

Mock Fractal • Controlling Color with Drafting Choices

Color-Block Socks

Color-Block Socks

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