The title gives a big clue to what this book is about: sisterhood, sharing, crafting, giving, laughing. It's also about spinning yarn and making socks, glorious, zany, wildly colourful yarn for perfect fitting socks.

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 imaginat

Love those expensive, imported yarns that magically knit up into stripes, jacquard, and zigzag patterns? Yarns to Dye For offers you an easy, inexpensive, and fun way to dye your own self-patterning wool or natural-fiber yarns using commercially available dyes. No other book details this process. Then choose from more than 25 projects to create your own knitted socks, scarves, hats, vests, and ...

Contains step-by-step instructions and illustrations that explain how to make yarn from scratch using handspindles - simple tools used to turn wool into yarn. This manual includes instructions for five simple, appealing projects: a woven sleeve, a knitted bunny bag, a knitted baby hat, knitted finger-less mittens, and a crocheted hat.

Bringing the principles of colour theory down to a usable level, this text applies them to knitting, spinning, weaving, surface design and much more.