Ashford Wheel Magazine
Ashford Wheel Magazine
The Wheel is a full-color magazine containing articles, patterns and projects for the fiber artist written by knowledgeable and inspirational spinners, weavers, dyers, knitters and felters from around the world.
Early editions Issue 13 and 15 are formatted as a newspaper. Issues after that are bound.
By Susan Black Drummond
Excellent resource for those that raise Angora Goats for their mohair fiber.
Image is actual book. From my personal Library.
Excellent condition. Cover has minor scuffing. Pages clean, no writing or damage.
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Instruction booklets. Originally sold with new Ashford Spinning Wheel or Weaving Loom. The color booklets are for current models. The others are for older models.
The Wheel is a full-color magazine containing articles, patterns and projects for the fiber artist written by knowledgeable and inspirational spinners, weavers, dyers, knitters and felters from around the world.
Early editions Issue 13 and 15 are formatted as a newspaper. Issues after that are bound.
Fact and Folklore for Spinners and Weavers
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With Deb Menz. Great instruction for those that want to blend and card fibers to spin into yarn or felt.
Simple tools and tricks for making the most beautiful colors in the world.
Learn simple tricks to create your own unique fiber colors. Theres magic in color, but creating wonderful color for spinning and felting is what you might call practical magic.
Start with colored fiber natural or dyed. Add a blending tool (a drum carder is Debs choice). Mix and play using some simple, basic color principles and theres no limit to the possibilities.
With Debs relaxed, enthusiastic guidance, you ll learn:
Basic blending techniques The language of color, which is the key to successful blending Working with hue, value, and saturation
A down to earth approach to almost perfect color matching Working with color harmonies Combining multiple blended batts And much more.
Watching the colors roll off Debs drum carder is endlessly fascinating, and every new exercise suggests a hundred more that you ll want to try for yourself. Its an endless adventure.
Approximately 120 minutes 2 Disks.
9781596684676
Deb Menz takes inspiration from the world around her mother nature, photos, fabrics, anything that pleases her eye and applies the more is more approach to creating fiber blends for spinning stunning single and plied yarns.
With these simple, inspired approaches, anyone can design yarns that are rich, intriguing, complex, and effective.
Learn how to: Use a color wheel and value scale
Make friends with a few simple principles of color harmony
Train your eye to analyze the components of a color
Make effective blends for singles and plied yarns
Sample with enthusiasm and joy
120 minutes.
9781596684683
Spinning with a Purpose: Notes and Projects
Very good information on preparing and using fibers from different sheep breeds.
ISBN 9780934026000
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Inspirational handbook for yarn lovers everywhere, created in an eye-popping, showcase style and packed with sparkling, full-color photos. This book will be a delight to the enthusiastic fiber crowd that is growing by leaps and bounds. It captures all the excitement of experimental, handspun yarns, and includes recipes for handspun yarns, project ideas for knitters and crocheters, tips on how to use one-of-a-kind handspun yarns. Hardbound.
ISBN 9781592533749
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Expand Your Spinning Repertoire! Explore the exciting possibilities in wool and wheel with Sarah Anderson as she invites you into her yarn library and demonstrates how to spin everything from classic fat and fine singles to dozens of boucle variations and one-of-a-kind novelty yarns. Featuring step-by-step instructions on making 80 distinctive yarns, this is the primer every spinner needs to begin building a unique collection of luxious yarns.
64 unique reference cards appear throughout to illustrate step-by-step the singles and twist combinations that comprise each yarn. A second set of the cards, in a handy take-along format, is packaging in a separate envelope at the back of the book.
ISBN 9781603427388
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Spinning, Dyeing & Knitting Elizabeth Zimmermann's Classics
Master spinner (and dyer/knitter), Jeannine Bakriges worked for years to compile this beautiful and informative book.
The book includes extensive technical information on spinning, notes on natural and solar dyeing, including setting up a dye studio, and knitting patterns by Elizabeth Zimmermann and Meg Swansen including:
Sock-Toe Scarf, Halter Top, I-cord Gloves and Hat, Knit-Stitch Pullover, Very Warm Hat, 3-Cornered German Shawl,Circular Brioche Watch Cap, Headband, Kliban Hat, Moccasin Socks, Epaulet Jacket, Jogger’s Mitts, Moebius Vest, Dickey, Knee Socks, Moebius Scarf, Balaclava Helmut, Bohus Sweater & Hat, Pillbox Hat, and the Mananita.
From fleece to knitted garment, Spinning Around is an incredible journey.
ISBN 9780942018332
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Dozens of hand spinning projects, patterns.
Enjoy Spin Off back issues exactly as they were printed, available on CD!
The full-color electronic versions of these magazines includes easy-to-navigate tables of contents, easy-to-print patterns, informative articles, designer profiles, and all the tips and techniques that Interweave is known for!
PDF format on CD for viewing on your computer or hand held device.
Spin off, the Art and Craft of spinning yarn
Back Issues in Like New Condition
Magazine may of been opened. No writing or missing pages.
Been stored in smoke free dry area.
Newer issues are new. Unopened, Unread.
Learn to hand spin with fiber artist Jo Reeve.
Learn how to spin from the beginning through to advanced techniques.
Jo, the author of the very popular Ashford Book of Carding, has twenty-seven years of spinning experience and will show you how to spin from the beginning through to advanced techniques. Learn how to create unique yarns using different techniques and fibers and make five easy projects using your handspun yarn. Step by step instructions and gorgeous color photographs will take you on a new journey of creativity.
116 pages.
ISBN 9780958288156
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by Stephanie Mitcham Sexton and Allison Mitcham
Raising Angora goats for their mohair fiber to spin, weave, knit or felt.
Gently used book. Image is actual book. From my personal Library.
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