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SPIN SOFT SINGLES for KNITTING p. 76

Ply right!

• Twist—how much?

p. 42

• Master cabling

p. 46

• Wrap-and-roll

p. 70

per inch

How and why

p. 32

Soft Cormo

cozy baby

knits

A gallery of

p. 66

lace shawls!

p. 88

Spring 2008

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C ONTENTS

by Anne Merrow

28 Behind the Scenes: At Chasing Rainbows

Dyeworks by Sara Lamb

34 Your Yarn! Exotic Yarns!

38 A Conversation between Amy Singer

and Maggie Casey

60 Fiber Basics: Cormo by Margaret Heathman

88 Handspun Gallery of Shawls

112 Fiber Optics and Yarns by Diane Mulholla nd

How to

32 Spinning Tips: Wraps per inch by Amanda Berka

by Abby Franquemont

46 Cables: Demystifying the mysterious yarn

Projects

54 Spun 2 Ways: H ats at any size

by Judith MacKenzie McCuin

70 Wrap-and-Roll: A soft-core yarn from a hard-core

and any gauge Design by

Ann Budd, yarns by Kristi

Schueler and

Carol Huebscher

Rhoades

66 A Cormo

spinner by Bonnie Rose with Sarah Anderson

On the cover:

Wrap-and-roll yarns by

Sarah Anderson, page 70.

On the Web:

The Spinner’s Connection.

A video of the wrap-and-roll

technique.

More of Your Yarn.

Trinity-Stitch

Baby Jacket

by Margaret Heath man

76 Traditional Danis h

Tie-Shawls

by Dorothea Fischer

84 Two Camelid Tops by Deborah Kaplan

Departments

2 Editor’s Page

6 Letters

14 As the Whorl Spins

by Stefanie Berganini

16 Get This!

by Stefanie Berganini

20 Reviews

98 Abbreviations

99 Calendar

106 Classiﬁed Ads

111 Advertiser’s Index

Volume XXXII

Number 1

Spring 2008

Features

24 Armchair Traveler: Midcoast Maine

42 Spinning Basics: The effects of twist in plying

E DITOR ’ S PAGE

daughter, Hannah, was playing at my feet. She

reached up and gently held the predrafted ﬁber that

I was working with and said very carefully and

deliberately, “Wo-ow.” It sounded more like wow,

but I knew she was trying to say wool. I asked, “Are

you trying to say wool?” And then she said it again,

“Wooolll.” But she was right the ﬁrst time. It is

wow. I love this wow. And,

gosh, this issue has a lot of wow

in it. You may have already

noticed the amazing wow on

the cover. I wish you could

touch it. The photos are beauti-

ful, but they are nothing com-

pared to the yarns themselves.

The yarns slide through your

ﬁngers like Slinkies down steps.

Bouncy and resilient, they seem

to have a life of their own. It is

the kind of wow that makes

me abandon the dishes in the

sink, the laundry piled on the

bed waiting to be folded, the

e-mails dinging in my inbox,

and run to my wheel with

bated breath. Everything can wait until I’ve had a

chance to see what this wow is going to do. I mean

really—I’ve got to see how the color is going to be

translated from dyed top to spun thread, to plied

yarn, to knitted swatch. Or maybe I’ll weave it this

time.

And what do you do after you’ve spun the skein,

plied it, and washed it? Do you pace back and

forth—waiting impatiently—as I do? I’ve deter-

mined the best place to dry a skein in my house

(in the winter) is in the downstairs bathroom (the

warmest room in the house) because the shower

door opens up right under the heater vent, and I

can hang a skein from the door. I don’t check it too

often to see if it is dry. Just a few times. And then

some time must be spent squishing the newly dried

skein in my hands, rubbing it on my face, and talk-

ing to Hannah about it. Fortunately for me, she

delights in the yarn as much as I do

(at least for now). She loves to help

wash skeins (what’s more fun than

soapy water when you’re two?). My

knitted swatches quickly become

blankets for her little animals—she

piles them on in an inverse version

of the princess and the pea. I’ve

had to discourage her from using

my niddy-noddy as a hammer, but

there are other tools that she’s

allowed to play with as long as

I’m there to supervise. Maybe this

is the environment that Diane

Mulholland (author of the back-

page essay) grew up in—she

writes about the wonderful wow

relationship she and her mother

share now, despite living on different continents.

Perhaps her mother taught her how to wind balls

rather than shooing her away from the spinning

equipment. I look forward to sharing the wow with

Hannah (and anyone else who is interested, for that

matter) for a long time.

Happy Spinning!

What’s on my wheel? Nine ounces of

beautifully dyed ﬁne wow in the Andretti

colorway purchased from Dudley Spinner

at her etsy shop, www.dudleyspinner

.etsy.com.

Amy Clarke Moore, editor

amyc@interweave.com

Volume XXXII

Spring 2008

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I was spinning, and my two-and-a-half-year-old

It is time for another good-

bye–hello! Former Assistant

Editor Amanda Berka decided

to return to her career in engi-

neering. Please welcome Ste-

fanie Berganini, our new

assistant editor. Stefanie is a

recent graduate of Colorado

State University where she

earned a degree in graphic

design. She’s a weaver, a new

spinner, and a talented writer.

You may recognize her from

the KnittingDaily.com gal-

leries—where she modeled

while she was working as an

intern for our sister publica-

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P HOTO BY

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50 is a Lendrum made

by Lendrum of Odessa,

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