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 ...

A paperbound edition of Deb Menz's classic guide to colour for handspinners is finally here! Menz offers a technically savvy yet accessible tutorial on working with colour and fibre. Included are in-depth discussions and illustrated demonstrations of immersion dycing, painting rovings, blending colors and fibers, and spinning and plying multicolored preparations. Whether you're a novice or an ...

Alden Amos is a legend and mentor to the growing handcraft community of spinning. He shares his deep knowledge of wheel mechanics, spinning fibres, wheel construction, and yarn, as well as a wealth of spinning history and traditions.