Needleworkers no longer have to settle for what’s available at the local yarn shop! Alison Daykin and Jane Deane, who have decades of experience spinning, weaving, and dyeing, show how easy it can be to create personalized and gorgeous skeins of one-of-a-kind fibers. Designed for complete beginners, this attractive guide offers 30 beautiful projects that teach a repertoire of skills on both the hand spindle and spinning wheel. It starts with simple, basic combing, twisting, plying, and finishing, then goes on to offer a primer on working with fibers. All the chapters are organized by yarn type, including short wool and down, medium fine wool, long wool and lustre, hill and mountain, rare wool, animal hair, silk, and vegetable fiber.
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Alison Daykin has been teaching spinning, weaving and dyeing since 1983. While studying for her HNC in Hand Woven Textile Design at Bradford in 2002 she won third place and a commendation in the Bradford Student Textile Design Awards. She now runs Alison Yule Textiles, producing bespoke hand-woven fabrics. Location: Willington, Derbyshire. Jane Deane is a spinner, weaver and dyer with 30 years' experience. She works with natural and synthetic dyes and runs a bespoke yarn and fibre dyeing service Cross-Eyed Chameleon. Location: Tavistock, Devon.
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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful
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First of all, this is a BEAUTIFUL book. If you love yarn, and love to look at great photos and dream of what you too could do with a little fiber and a big idea, you will like this book. It is not a book for beginning spinners. The spinning how-to section is very basic, with drawings, not photos. More useful is the plying section - how to combine strands to get different effects, but then again, this section is also drawings, not photos. The photos of the author's yarns are gorgeous, and she tells a bit about the kind of sheep/plant the fiber comes from, and a few properties of that particular fiber. I wouldn't call this a serious How-To, rather it is a very good idea book, and a great pleasure to leaf through over and over again.
34 of 34 people found the following review helpful
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A beautiful gift book for spinners, filled with gorgeous close-up photos of amazing handspun yarns, accompanied by instructions for duplicating the yarns using specific fibers (for example, merino, lincoln). The opening section includes good instructional material, although the book chiefly provides inspiration for spinners who aspire to create lovely designer yarns. The book amply demonstrates the results that can be achieved by accomplished handspinners, and it is a typical high-quality softcover book from Lark Books.
26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
By Trulyblessed
Format:Paperback
This is a stunningly beautiful book, if you want to see close ups of gorgeously spun yarns. However, that's about all it is. The sparse information in the front on spinning can be obtained from most spinning websites or in pamphlets given away with the purchase of a spindle. I found very little useful information or even inspiration to copy the yarns created. My recommendation, peruse this one at a bookstore with a cup of coffee, then put it back on the shelf and instead spend your money on some yummy fiber to spin.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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Great book for spinners
This book is filled with pictures. It is a great book for yarn lovers. A good addition to your coffee table.
Published 3 months ago by Rosanna B.Masley
2.0 out of 5 stars
Nice photos
I've been spinning for years and have slowly worked on building my library, I purchased this book and when I recieved it I was pretty disappointed. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Krystal
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Inspiring Creativity in Spinning
This book is an inspiration to the individual who has some spinning expertise. It has been helpful to me in that it gives recipes for spinning specific styles of yarn using a... Read more
Published on September 27, 2009 by N. Miller
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Book on inspiration for designing yarns
After reading the reviews here, I decided not to get this book. Then I came across a used copy cheap and bought it. I am glad I did. Read more
Published on July 22, 2009 by T. Sommer
2.0 out of 5 stars
Creative Spinning
Although beautiful to look at, I don't feel it covers some areas thoroughly and could miss lead beginners.
Published on February 14, 2009 by Betty Kirk
5.0 out of 5 stars
informative
I have not had time to go through the 3 books I bought. Just look at them. I would like to learn to spin and I think they will be helpful.
Published on September 30, 2008 by connie sager
5.0 out of 5 stars
beautiful photos
beautiful photos, love the "recipies" for the wool, and the how the yarn looks knit up. A+
Published on July 19, 2008 by J. Cooper
4.0 out of 5 stars
Creative Spinning
This is a very informative and easy to follow instructional book for any spinner who would like to spin creative yarns.
Published on June 15, 2008 by Knitter
5.0 out of 5 stars
Looking at Spinning Different Fibers, Awesome
This is a beautiful book. I took it to our spinning group, Delta, Colorado, last Friday and everyone wanted my book. Read more
Published on April 12, 2008 by Suzanp
4.0 out of 5 stars
creative books series
Of the 'Creative . . .' series of books this is on the plus side. THe beginning is full of standard info re: wheel & hand spindle spinning, plying and even washing fleece. Read more
Published on February 27, 2008 by dancing desert rabbit
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