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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Roving: You control the colourway

Roving: You control the colourway

Hopkins, Grace Shalom

Paperback

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ISBN10: 1548837563
ISBN13: 9781548837563
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 1 2017
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
The first fibre you spun was roving or combed top. You've got memories of mistakes and triumphs. It's the foundation of your craft. Because it's the basis of most of your projects, especially the practical ones, it can feel repetitive and monotonous in your hands. You've lost the spark you used to feel about roving. However, you can easily get out of that roving rut and regain your enthusiasm. ROVING will empower you to shift your perspective and discover how easy it is to manipulate roving and combed top into truly exciting, dynamic, yarns. ROVING isn't a spinning textbook, it's filled with vivid photography, detailed step by step written instructions and hundreds of unique variations. Each technique is specifically chosen because of its ability to result in thousands of different outcomes with even the smallest tweak. Techniques can be layered, implemented on other fibres, spun thick and thin, the possibilities are endless. You will learn: - How colour presents in your yarn, how to self-stripe, how to fractal, how to gradient, etc. - How to transform an ugly colourway into something beautiful. - How to blend and combine colour without entering the technicolour granny zone. - It's okay to ditch measurements and weights. - How to better make the fibre in your hands become the yarn in your mind's eye. - How to collaborate with the dyer rather than let her choices control yours. Each technique is broken down into the six sections that make it easy to follow step by step at the wheel. -What is this technique? -What type of fibre is best suited to this technique? -How do you prep it? -How do you spin it? -What are some variations of this technique I could try? -What are some ways I could use this yarn?

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