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Showing 41–60 of 109 results for “yarn lab”
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Designing Around Fashion Yarns
Fashion yarns can be fickle beasts. They’re so enticing in the yarn shop, but sometimes when you get them home, you start wondering how to actually weave with them. Fortunately fashion yarns don’t have to be difficult.
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Yarn Requirements
Tom Knisely
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Download this article that shows how to calculate yardages for weaving projects.
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A Yarn about Yarn
I have been weaving the technique of warp-faced rep for over 35 years—and have yet to exhaust my ideas for color and design. This is the power of warp-faced rep.
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It’s Just Yarn—Jump into Weaving
As many times as you tell beginning weavers that it’s just yarn, most still worry about the whole warping the loom thing.
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Ask Madelyn: Designing Around Yarn
I grouped these three questions together because they all involve the same kind of reasoning and knowledge related to designing around yarn. The first important step to take is to download the Master Yarn Chart.
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Lorn No More
Madelyn got some real life answers to her question about how to use special yarns.
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Simple Weaves for Fabulous Yarns
Sometimes the best approach to using fabulous yarns such as handpainted or variegated is the simplest.
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You Need This Book! The Yarn Barn of Kansas Required Reading List
Book Club Podcast: Fiber art veterans Susan Bateman and Melissa Parsons compare notes with host Anne Merrow about the books every weaver, spinner, knitter, and crocheter should have on the bookshelf—plus big news about a classic weaving directory.
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Ask Madelyn: Substituting Yarns
How do you substitute one yarn for another in a project?
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A Weaver's Guide to Yarn
Download this two page guide to common yarns useful to weavers.
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A Ball of Yarn Older Than Any In Your Stash
There might be some "ancient yarns" in your yarn stash, but none are as old as this one. This yarn ball was found near Cambridge, and it's 3000 years old.
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Chaos Theory for Weavers
Does yarn sense your mood? If not, then how does it know to tangle when you are in a hurry?
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Ask Madelyn: More On Yarn Substitutions
Madelyn shares her tips for yarn substitutions when you can't or don't want to use the yarn specified in your weaving patterns.
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Projects are the Best Teachers
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Her Handspun Habit: Weaving to Save Your Handspun Yarn
I can admit it: not every skein of handspun yarn turns out as well as I’d envisioned. In fact, there’s the occasional skein that is downright unsightly.
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Shadow Weave: A Tale of Two Yarns
Have you ever wondered why two yarns that looks great next to each other on the shelf combine to create a muddy mess? In her latest article, Deb Essen explains how to learn from her mistake and (not) choose colors.
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Ask Madelyn: More on Yarn Substitutions
I am a beginning weaver (actually, a beginning-again weaver) and need help with yarn substitutions. I am using an older pattern from Handwoven, November/December 1996, “Man’s Scarf in Silk and Cotton.” It calls for 12/2 silk at 2,790 yd/lb.
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Ask Madelyn: Matching the Structure to the Yarn
Here is a dilemma: I have inherited several cones of two different yarns and would like to make a table runner, but I'm not confident in how to approach it.
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Ask Madelyn: What Kind of "Hand" Will My Yarn Yield?
Is there any way to avoid sampling to determine "hand"?
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Master Yarn Chart
The Master Yarn Chart lists yardages per pound and recommended setts for many of the yarns used in Handwoven projects.
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