Too Precious To Use: 6 Tips To Control Your Stash
Here are 6 tips I’ve developed to control my stash rather than letting it control me:
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Here are 6 tips I’ve developed to control my stash rather than letting it control me:
I’ve been working with a new-to-me yarn, Marine Silk Lace, for the past couple of years. Merino wool and silk have, of course, been used for a very long time, but there’s a surprise fiber in this yarn—seaweed.
Churro yarn has long been used for weaving tapestries, rugs and blankets. Read this Yarn Lab from Handwoven September/October 2015 to see how beautifully it works up in different structures.
Does yarn sense your mood? If not, then how does it know to tangle when you are in a hurry?
You might think that yarn made out of banana fibers is a new thing but in fact it has been around for a long time. Liz Moncrief wove samples with it with great success.
Long, lustrous fibers define the usual description of silk. Defying tradition, GIST Yarn & Fiber’s Italian Silk Noil travels a different road to warm, soft, textured fabrics.
Becky Ashenden wove with two lesser-known Swedish wool yarns for this Yarn Lab.
Some of my best laid plans in weaving haven't turned out the way I thought they would.
I would like to use up this yarn by weaving baby blankets for a local Project Linus chapter.
On July 14, France celebrates Bastille Day (or as they call it “Quatorze Juillet”), the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789 that marked a turning point in the French Revolution—well, the first of their revolutions, anyway.
As Lynn Tedder writes in this article, originally published in the November/December 2018 issue of Handwoven, huck is a structure for all seasons.
Each Loom Theory is dedicated to a specific type of loom, either 4-shaft, rigid-heddle or 8-shaft loom.