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Spinning Techniques

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Trouble Spinning Across the (Combed) Top? Heavenly Bresser Has Top Tips For You

We often know about spinning across the top but seeing it done well can make it easier to put it into practice.

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Visible Mending with a Darning Loom

Spin Off’s “Mend, Renew & Make Do” issue is here, and we’ve created a tutorial for getting started using a darning loom with spinners in mind!

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Spinning Training: Building Blocks & Novelty Yarns

Getting ready to participate in the Tour de Fleece? Well, you may need to do a little “spinning training” to get ready! Author Sarah Anderson teaches us the building blocks of spinning, and then shows us how to create a variety of fun novelty yarns.

Summer Indulgence: 3 Tips for Spinning Luxury Blends

Finding time to feed our creativity can be hard. Working with delicious fiber can help give us a nudge!

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Spin Off Summer 2023

Learn to repair your garments, fix your tools, refresh your stash, and more.

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Spin Off Spring 2023 issue

Boost your color confidence with dyeing how-to, knitted color studies, heathered blends, and more in the new Spin Off Spring 2023 issue.

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Akerworks Flat-Pack Wrist Caddy

This Wrist Caddy is perfect for yarn dispensing when knitting or crocheting, or as a distaff for spinning. Enjoy! -- #ad

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Spin Off Autumn Retreat 2024

Announcing the launch of the Spin Off Autumn Retreat 2024 in York, PA! Spend five days expanding your skills and deepening your passion for spinning alongside a warm, spirited community of fellow spinners. Learn from some of the most outstanding spinning teachers and fiber artists in the world.

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Spin-Along 2023 Gallery: Part 1

From bookmarks and socks, to hand towels and shawls, the results of this year’s Lace-along are as unique and varied as there are types of lace.

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Inside the Woolly World of Norman Kennedy

Watch even a few minutes of a Norman Kennedy video and you’ll be charmed and captivated by his singing and anecdotes.

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A Spinner’s Take on Visible Mending—5 Top Tips

Thinking about jumping on the visible-mending bandwagon? With spinners in mind, we’ve gathered a few tips to help you get started.

Gallery of Handspun Mends

Visible mending’s popularity has been on the rise. We asked our readers to show us their mends, and we love the creativity displayed here by mixing handspun yarn and other types of threads with an assortment of wearable and useful objects.

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Spin Off Autumn Retreat 2023

There are fewer than 80 spaces total for this incredible handspinning experience! Spend four days expanding your skills and deepening your passion for spinning alongside a warm, spirited community of fellow spinners.

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Tips for Achieving a Pointillist Effect in Your Yarns

We’ve dug into the Spin Off archives to uncover exercises for the study of color interactions. Use these experiments to create interesting colored yarns.

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VM Is Not the End: Save That Fleece with Handcards

Vegetable matter (VM)—the chaff, twigs, and burrs that can become embedded in our fleeces—is considered a flaw. But how much VM is too much? It’s a matter of opinion.

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