This inspiring illustrated guide teaches experienced spinners to make beautiful designer yarns and encourages them to be more creative and have more fun with spinning. Handspun yarns can be white, lumpy, gray, and precise—or they can be as colorful and deliciously textured as the spinner's imagination. Presented are instructions on applying dye to fibers in new, exciting ways; predicting how novelty yarns will look in finished fabrics; blending fibers for color and texture effects; spinning singles and plied yarns; and using these fantastic new yarns in weaving, knitting, and crocheting. Spinners will also add corespun, boucl+, snarl, knotted, and tufted yarns to their spinning repertoire. This replaces 0934026297.
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Diane Varney has taught spinning workshops around the country and is the illustrator of the cookbook Pumpkins, Zucchini, and Squash. She lives in San Francisco, California.
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84 of 86 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent for advanced techniques in yarn spinning & design,
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This review is from: Spinning Designer Yarns (Paperback)
With color photo examples, excellent clear black & white illustrations and well written step by step instruction, this book shows how to advance beyond the creation of a simple basic yarn on a spinning wheel. Fascinating techniques such as core-spun, overtwist, snarl, knotted, tuffed yarns are just some of yarns you will be able to learn along with various dyeing methods, yarn texture and design
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Not bad...,
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A lot of good information, attractively presented. I learned about a few specialty yarn constructions and overall the book was easy to read.
When I took it out of the envelope, I was a little disappointed by the size of the book. It's pretty thin. A lot was covered, but it didn't really seem like it was covered in depth. I was hoping to hear MORE about fibers, MORE about twist, etc. To be fair, my main reference up to this point has been the Alden Amos Book of Handspinning, and that's a tome, so that might have affected my perspective. Still, this book just seems a bit "broad brushstrokes" for me.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Just what I was looking for,
By Tammy "Tammy, Matt's other half" (Northeast Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews
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I have only been spinning for a short while, but I knew I wanted to explore beyond the basics, maybe get into making art yarns and the like...this book fits the bill perfectly, it assumes you know basic techniques and explains ways to move beyond....I am very pleased with this book!
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