For many years I was a very happy spinner who waited to see how my yarn would turn out.  But at some point, I decided I wanted to take some control over my art.  To plan the yarn I wanted and see THAT yarn turn out.  Yes there are still surprises along the way, especially when working with color.... but the more you learn, the more control you have over your art.

A must have device for intentional spinning is the Spinner's Control Card, developed and made by VIP Fibers. 

The control card hel...

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I know that you tried to stay awake in Algebra class, but just in case you didn't, or in case you just weren't very good at story problems, I thought I'd run through a little math calculation that I did today, and quite frequently in my wooly world.

Here is my best try at writing a story problem like you'd get in 7th grade math class.

If a spinner were going to blend some fibers and she took 1 oz of wool that was 80% Alpaca and 20% Merino and added .25 oz of Mohair, what percentage of each fibe...
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Yarn bombing is an urban artform sweeping the knitted world.  Showing up in metro areas around the globe on: lamp posts, statues, buildings, bicycles and more.  If it stays put too long, it could get bombed. 
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When you see a yarn quoted in 1/8, 2/18, 3/8, 2/20, 2/14 etc., you can find out what that means with the following formula.

The first number tells you how many plies are in the yarn. (I have seen these backwards at times… so know that USUALLY, the smaller number is the number of plies.)

The second number tells you how many 1000 meters per kilogram are in each ply of the yarn.

So a 2/20 yarn is 2 ply and each ply has 20,000 meters per kilogram.  Therefore the plied yarn has 10,0...

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