Spin-Off Magazine (Making Yarn By Hand) 2002 Collection Issues Digitized on CD

Enjoy all four issues of Spin-Off Magazine exactly as they were printed in 2002. The full-color electronic versions of these magazines allow you to explore making yarn by hand with easy-to-navigate tabs and printable articles. 

With this CD, you’ll have spinning inspiration at your fingertips. You can also search each issue by keywords of your choosing such as: 

• Names of masters of spinning
• Specific or general techniques
• Favorite projects
• Products or equipment such as spindle, wheel, yarns, etc. 
• Challenges and results
• Keywords like color, wheel mechanics, cashmere or any other areas of interest

Spring 2002 
Techniques: Crockpot dyeing, knitting with singles, weave with singles, design a knitted vest from a sewing pattern.
Fiber Focus: Silk, angora, and Stansborough Gotland sheep. 
Projects: Weave a silk tuxedo scarf, bunny sweaters, natural-dyed crocheted vest, and felted vests. 

Summer 2002 
Techniques: Shifu, the Japanese art of making garments out of paper. 
Fiber Focus: Pygora, Polwarth, shifu, cashmere, silk, qiviut, and mohair. 
Projects: A mohair hat, scarves, Scandinavian-inspired mittens and hat, and vests. 

Fall 2002 
Techniques: Dye with avocados, cotton ginning, using a spinning Jenny, knit with feathers, and de-hair cashmere. 
Fiber Focus: Cashmere, feathers, angora, and cotton. 
Projects: Knitting socks, quilting thread for a Sashiko vest, Victorian knitting, weave a king size blanket, and an unspun roving hat. 

Winter 2002 
Techniques: Dyeing, lubricate your wheel, spinning cotton, CD spindles. 
Fiber Focus: Qiviut, cotton, linen, and Wensleydale. 
Projects: Sideways garter-stitch gloves, sheep’s-head slippers, woven scarves, and knit a scarf with leftover yarn.