Get Spun: The Step-By-Step Guide to Spinning Art Y

The language of this book is English. Author: Symeon North Want to learn how to spin the cool, funky art yarns that you find in knitting boutiques (at boutique prices) or make your fiber art project unique? This is the book for you! Looking for ways to jazz up your handspun? Want to create yarns as individual as you are, that express your artistic vision, but are still useful? Get Spun teaches spinners to create art yarns with structure. By combining traditional skills, unconventional techniques, and an unlimited range of fiber possibilities, readers can not only create the yarn of their dreams, they can make it strong enough to last. You will learn: Art-yarn spinning fundamentals and techniques with clear step-by-step photographs Techniques for wool, silk, and beyond, including nontraditional materials (fabric, plastic bags, silk cocoons), glitz, sari silk, and add-ins Instructions for dyeing and blending fiber and yar Book Contents INTRODUCTION, What makes an art yarn?, MATERIALS, Fiber – Traditional and Nontraditional, Other – Materials Beads, Cocoons, Hardware, Dyeing & Blending, BASIC TECHNIQUES, High-twist worsted, Bulky singles, Slubby think-and-thin, CORE SPINNING, Elastic core, Coils & partial coils, Wool 'chrysalis', LOCKS, Adding locks, Spinning all locks, Plying in locks, ADDING IN, Strung beads on binder, Strung beads on yarn, Cocoons, UNSPINNABLES, Plastic bags, Fabric, PLYING, High and low twist * Worms, About The AuthorSymeon North is an independent fiber artist, spinner, and dyer who works under the moniker "Pippi Kneesocks". Her articles and designs have appeared on Knitty, and she is a contributor to the book Spin to Knit.