c o n t e n t s

Features

  24 Armchair Traveler:The Netherlands

by Jacey Boggs

  28  Your Yarn: Colors blended by hand

  36 Behind the Scenes: At Earthues by Leslie Ordal

  46 ASpinning
Handspun Gallery of Natural Dyes

  90 matter? byforMaggie
Crochet—Does twist direction
Casey with Margaret Tullis

112 Teach Me, Grandma by Midori Lee Wagner

How to

  22 Spinning Tips: Self-ply

by Carol Huebscher Rhoades

  32 Spinning Basics: Debunking the

wraps-per-inch myth by Amy Tyler 78
  42 Dyeing Basics: An introduction to natural
dyes by Dagmar Klos Projects
  54  Dyeing with Black Walnuts by Elizabeth Fahey
70 Corriedale
Double-Knit Cap
  58 Core spinning: Adding to your spinning
repertoire by Jacey Boggs by Carol Huebscher
Rhoades
  64 Fiber Basics: Corriedale
by Carol Huebscher Rhoades 74 Pass-Through
Scarf
On the cover: At spinoffmagazine.com: by Kristi R. Schueler
Examples from the Natural
Dye section, starting on
page 42.
Spinner’s Connection
More of our Handspun Gallery
More of Your Yarn
78 Friends Shawl
by Joan Sheridan
Calendar of Events
84 Teresa’s
Mittens
Texting

by Mavis Adam

64

Departments
  2 Editor’s Page 101 Abbreviations
  6 Letters 102 Classified Ads
11 As the Whorl Spins 111 Advertisers’ Index
by Stefanie Berganini
12 Reviews
20 Get This!
by Stefanie Berganini

Volume XXXIV
Number 3
Fall 2010
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