November 2010
1 post
Handwoven's Master Yarn Chart →
You’ll need to create an account on weavingtoday.com to get to the yarn chart, but it’s quite handy — it will tell you what size “8/2” means, for example, and a whole host of yarns.
July 2010
1 post
Organic_Clothing: Raw & Organic Silk: Facts behind... →
An interesting article about silk — the fiber, yarn, and fabric…
June 2010
1 post
Glossary of Dyeing, Spinning, & Fiber Preparation... →
Definitions from Acid to Z-twist!
April 2010
2 posts
Niki Sawyer's Collection of 6,000 Sheep Images →
How Acid Dye Works →
An interesting article from Dharma about acid dyes. They are a one-stop website for a huge variety of dye needs, from dyes to dye tools to blank fabric and clothing that can be dyed. Their catalog is a fun read, too!
March 2010
3 posts
Woven into the Earth: Spinning in the Grease →
An interesting experience of spinning in the grease vs. spinning washed fleece, with side-by-side photographs of the skeins.
New Voyager Trading Videos - Spinning Wheel... →
A nice trio of videos on spinning wheel maintenance, by New Voyager Trading (home of Kromski wheels) — great information for any wheel owner.
Daisy Hill Weaving Studio: Fast Pictorial Guide to... →
Okay, so this is more of a weaver’s tip. But it’s terrific! I may not need a Boyce knotter after all ;-) yeah, right!
February 2010
3 posts
Wraps per inch method | Wool Festival →
how to estimate how much yarn you need for a sweater, using wraps per inch …
Etusivu (Neulakinnas Nalbinding) →
A very interesting, very picture-rich website on Nalbinding, how to make stitches, finished items, and more, I’m sure. In Finnish, with translations too!
St. Seraphina Knits (and Spins): Souped-Up Suzie... →
How to soup up your high speed head on your Majacraft wheel to get ratios above 40:1 … how cool (umm, fast …!) is that!!
January 2010
4 posts
Portuguese Spindle blog, by Tita Costa →
A nice collection of posts on the Portuguese spindle, distaff and plying tool.
Make your own PVC charka by Sorcha Fhionn →
Instructions for assembling a charka or great wheel from PVC, a bicycle rim, a knitting needle, and a few other oddments. Looks like fun!
digitalnabi's blog: Technique: Gradient Carding... →
An interesting how-to on turning space-dyed roving into a color-gradient and the lovely scarves spun and knit from them.
December 2009
2 posts
The ShizzKnit: iSpin Toolkit for iPhone! →
A pretty cool app for the techie spinners out there with iPhones or the iPod Touch
Baltimore Guild Spinning Certificate Program →
An interesting and thorough self-study program for spinners, designed to help them attain mastery of spinning. Similar to the HGA’s COE program.
November 2009
4 posts
Zij maakt het: De "ninja's" →
The pictures of these Dutch handcarders in operation almost remove the need to run this post through translate.google.com …
Jazzturtle Creations: How do I do it? The In's and... →
A great video series on spinning core yarn with add-ins
Trenchwork : Still Batty . . . and master spinning →
Interesting insights on two American correspondence master spinners’ courses.
A Charmed Wife: Extraordinary Measures →
Some notes on using various body dimensions and money as fill-in measuring devices when the tape measure just isn’t available. A quarter’s diameter is an inch — that was good to know!
October 2009
1 post
The Plinth Project features a spinner →
The plinth project in the UK puts real humans up on plinths where statues usually are. This one is a spinner, spinning for an hour on her wheel. Yay spinners!
September 2009
3 posts
At the American Museum of Natural History,... →
Loxosceles - $15 Wool Combs (Some Assembly... →
Make your own wool combs — terrific for the DIY crowd!
August 2009
3 posts
A simple nalbound treasure pouch →
An article in Piecework 1994, now up on the Interweave website, on making a little amulet pouch in simple nalbinding.
Valkyrie's Turkish Spindle Instructions (PDF) →
A nice little booklet on spinning with a Turkish spindle.
Dye Techniques →
an interesting blog of dye techniques, mainly acid dyes on sock yarns.
July 2009
1 post
Dyer's Pot →
Natural dye plant information site
June 2009
1 post
4096 Color Wheel Version 2.1 →
A fun interactive color wheel, that has the plus of giving you the web color-codes too. saturation/value tool, too, and it’s using subtractive (i.e. pigment) color combining.
May 2009
2 posts
Kiton Acid Dyes Rainbow Dyeing →
Cushings Dyes are Kiton Acid Dyes … their best colors to use as mixing primaries are (light) Canary, Cherry and Peacock, and (dark) Yellow, Blue and American Beauty.
sock prØn.: crochet chain roving braiding →
how to crochet-chain roving into a pretty presentation (for display or storage)
April 2009
5 posts
Weaving a Life: Sley that Warp →
speed-sleying :)
Hatchtown Farm on Winding on a Nøstepinde a/k/a... →
instructions with drawings, on winding on a nostepinne (however you want to spell it)!
Knot sample →
Tying a New Warp onto an Old Warp →
tutorial. relies on knowing how to make a weaver’s knot (my next tumble…:-) )
bowerbird knits: A Corrie-Tale →
lovely photo essay of combing and spinning a Corriedale fleece for a sweater — great comb shots!
March 2009
6 posts
Rosemary Knits: Pseudo-rolags →
The detailed instructions on the pseudo-rolags (pre-color ;-) )
Knittermobile's pseudo-rolag color work
Pseudo-rolags: stripes & layers - a set on Flickr See this for a photo guide to striping and layering a hand-made (no hand-card) rolag. See the next entry for instructions on these hand-made rolags…
Woven ~N~ Spun » Blog » My New Cone Winder →
Turning a weaving bobbin winder into a CSM cone winder.
Handwoven's Yarn Chart →
B/W silhouette of all yarns used in Handwoven magzine since 2000 — updated yearly. Great reference/visual on yarn weights.
the Soxophone Player: Ain't it a Splice →
Color (colour — he’s Canadian, dontcha know it) changes on the sock machine … so there are no ends to weave in!
Biscuits and Jam -- Stripe Maker →
you put in colors, # of rows total, widest stripe and it generates a random stripe pattern for you. See some results at Soxophone Player’s Blog
February 2009
12 posts
nonaKnits: Sidewinders: The Prologue →
a really cool sideways sock knitting pattern!
Rosemary Knits: Pseudo-rolags →
making rolags without handcards.
Little Dee by Chris Baldwin -- the vulture spins... →
on a spindle, natch.
from daily felt: Tutorial on dyeing very fine wool →
Needles on the Move » Spin-In: Plying from your... →
Sliding the cop onto straws and onto a lazy kate or shoebox kate.
Nahuala Spinning by Harry and Olive Linder -... →
A really cool spindling technique from Guatemala!
Who wants dog ears? →
Sock machine toe tips