Wovember 12 – Technique

I am not going to share the techniques I’ve learned as that could be a rather long, boring blog entry, and others have done it better. Instead I am going to crystalize the technique resources that I have found useful over the years.

If you type in Yarn Spinning Techniques into a search engine one thing you might get it is a list of books on techniques. yarn spinning techniques – Bing This is SOOOOOO Far from what was available back in the early 1970’s when I started spinning and was looking for help/information. The only book I found was “The Joy Of Spinning”. A book I still own.

Also available was SpinOff magazine. https://spinoffmagazine.com/, in those days it was strictly black and white. Information on spinning does not go out of date, even if there are newer ideas for spinning, so I understand why back copies of SpinOff are still in demand. There are not many magazines that I ‘keep’ past a month or so, but SpinOff is one of the few. I imagine some day I should give them to a good cause like a local spinning group as reference material, but until then…

Those two are my ‘prize’ technique sources. You also might get lucky and have a spinning guild in your area as a help/reference. How to check? Again SpinOff comes to the rescue with a directory of national and international spinning guilds.

And be careful how you enter your search in Google. If you don’t indicate Spinning Wool or Yarn, you could end up exercising with no yarn to show for the effort.