Long Thread Media Library

Socks Fit for a Spinner

Sandi's pattern recipe uses your gauge and your measurements—or those of a lucky recipient—to make a custom pair of socks that fit perfectly.

Pattern · Spin Off

How Much is That Spinner in the Window?

Marketing your wool for sale can take many forms. Learn about one author's unique experience educating the public about her sheeps' wool.

Article · Spin Off

Avocado Ikat: A Spinner Explores Resist Dyeing & Botanical Color

In this article PDF, you'll see how Rachel Simmons created a series of samples to capture the spirit of glorious traditional ikat textiles with a less complex, sample-friendly process designed for spinners.

Double-Cable Socks for Spinners

Wooly and warm, these socks are designed with a spinner’s feet in mind. The cable motif shows well across the instep and down to the toes.

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Combing: A Spinner's Guide eBook

With this collection of articles from top contributors, you'll learn about different combing methods and equipment to help you gain confidence hand-combing your fibers.

Spinner's Questions with Rita Buchanan eBook

Master spinner Rita Buchanan approaches the craft with analysis, pragmatism, and extensive experience, and in this eBook, you'll find a wealth of practical advice and food for thought.

Color: A Spinner's Guide to Dyeing and Blending eBook

Easy Knitting Patterns for Beginning Spinners eBook

The five projects in this eBook refine basic spinning skills, offer creative ways to use up small skeins, and ease you into more advanced techniques.

Color and Yarn Design for Spinners

With these simple, inspired approaches, anyone can design yarns that are rich, intriguing, complex, and effective.

Power Spinning: The Modern Spinner's Guide to Electric Spinning Wheels

Do you get a jolt from spinning on an e-spinner? Want to ditch the ratios and whorls and spin like the wind? Sarah Anderson’s video explores the ins and outs (and ons and offs) of the new generation of electric spinning wheels.

New Spinner's Guide to Plying

Are you ready to take your yarn to the next level? To make yarns that are more durable, more stable, less likely to pill, and more fun to work with? Learn the basics of plying with Anne Merrow in The New Spinner's Guide to Plying!

Color Works for Spinners

In Color Works For Spinners, Deb Menz will introduce color into your fiber world unlike anything else you've seen before. With a solid base of color theory that includes hue, value, and saturation, you'll be blending color combinations in no time.

A Spinner's Toolbox

As a spinner, your most important, versatile tools are your own skilled hands. With those eight fingers and two opposable thumbs, plus a half-dozen simple techniques for manipulating the fiber supply, you can spin a full suite of yarn styles.

Spinner's Color Toolbox: How to Spin Colorful Textured Yarns

Master spinner Judith MacKenzie will show you how to use several different methods for creating beautiful color palettes using yarn and other commercially dyed fiber.

Spinner's Guide to Color Theory: Mastering Color Without Dyeing

The New Spinner’s Guide to Troubleshooting

Love spinning, but have persistent problems you can't seem to solve? Abby Franquemont answers your questions, shows examples, and demonstrates why these things happen and how to address them.