Spinning Designer Yarns

Spinning Designer Yarns

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Book Description
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, bouclé, snarl, knotted, and tufted yarns to their spinning repertoire.

About the Author
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.

Spinning Designer Yarns,Diane Varney,Interweave Press,193149939X,Crafts & Hobbies,Crafts / Hobbies,Hobbies/Crafts,Needlework - General,Sewing,Textile Arts - General,Weaving,Crafts & Hobbies / Weaving,Spinning & weaving,Textile arts

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