Designed and made by Nancy Ellison ellisonsheepfarm.com My local Zumbro River Fiber Arts Guild always has an annual project. This year, we're making ornaments for a tree to donate to…
by Deb Gerish My color-blending journey began with a specific goal of designing and spinning colors for Fair Isle knitting. Once I learned a little color theory and understood how…
by Stephanie Flynn Sokolov I have been smitten with color since preschool. I remember my teacher adding red food coloring to a large glass pitcher of water, then making a…
by Deb Gerish Once you understand the basics of color theory, you have a lot more control over fiber colors. In Part 1, we explored hue, value, and saturation using…
Designed and woven by Mackenzie Keller, Stephanie Flynn Sokolov, and Sienna Bosch Spun by Deb Gerish Weaving with your handspun yarn is simple and rewarding. To illustrate the possibilities of…
By Deb Gerish Spinners have a lot of artistic control over their raw material. We can choose a fiber or fibers to spin, then we can manipulate diameter, twist, plies,…
Designed by Stephanie Flynn Sokolov Make snowballs without freezing your hands! Then hang them all over your house for winter décor. Pom-pom snowballs will never melt and the whole family…
Complete project instructions and special tips for Deb’s Dessert Wax Bowl and Water Lily Cushions, designed during the Spring Quarantine Spin-along of 2020. Dessert Wax Bowl Finished size: approximately 3″…
From our Spring Quarantine Spin Along 2020. View the first post here. ~ Welcome back, Spinners! I've finally started knitting things with my Colorful Colorado Spring handspun yarn and wanted…
From our Spring Quarantine Spin Along. Read the first post here, post #2 here, and post #3 here. We know that chain plying works a kind of magic when you're spinning…
From our Spring Quarantine Spin Along 2020. You can read blog post #1 here and post #2 here. As Deb has been spinning up a storm with our Colorful Colorado…
From our Spring Quarantine Spin Along 2020. You can read her first post here. It goes by several names: chain plying, Navajo plying, and all the variant spellings of "Navajo."…
From our Spring Quarantine Spin Along 2020. Read the rest of the posts in our blog! by Deb Gerish Mission: spin yarn from hand-dyed fiber by Greenwood Fiberworks, in an…
When people ask me what I like about spinning, I tell them that I love having complete control over the whole process, and that I can make any yarn that…
There is something downright magical about spinning your own yarn. Creating something out of nothing, and letting your inner-most yarn dreams come true in the process. In this post and…
After my last post on spinning fractal yarn, I wasn't quite happy with the idea. The premise of the technique is sound, but it isn't truly a fractal in the…
I can’t get enough color in my life! My favorite thing is to spin hand-dyed top because there are so many different ways the colors can play out. I’ve been…
Storage bobbins make my yarn better. I’ve been using storage bobbins and a bobbin winder for years, but only recently realized how indispensable they have become to my spinning. Having…
This year marks five years since I began spinning. Over the years I have progressed (as most spinners do) from spinning chunky and uneven yarns to finer and more consistent…
Just about every time I finish sampling dyed roving or top and knit a swatch, I wonder what it would look like woven. This week I finally gave in to…
The holidays are right around the corner, and when you've spent so much time and effort making your handmade gifts, it would be a shame not to have the same…
You're at the fiber show, and you see a braid of fiber that has to come home with you. You get it home and look at it and realize…
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, and I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have…
With Spinzilla a month behind us, I finally have found time to explain how I managed to blend two colors of bamboo fiber into a five-hue shift ombre yarn. Ombre and…
As a knitter, I always planned my projects with the finished product in mind, choosing my pattern and recipient, and then the yarn, with great intention. As a spinner,…
by Benjamin Krudwig Recently, I watched the Deb Menz videos on blending fiber to achieve different colors, and have since been blending fibers together just to see what will happen.…
What you need: Spinning fiber - roving or washed fleece A spinning wheel with empty bobbin Handcards We have amazing brains that often tell us what we can and can’t…
Every evening I think, "What's for dinner?" Most of the time it is a meal fashioned from whatever I have at the moment. I love to approach spinning and weaving…
