Product Description

Diane Varney is an author and artist of many talents including spinning, painting, and jewellery and pottery making. Her current artistic focus is on colourful dinnerware. She divides her time between homes in Baja California, Mexico, and the San Francisco area. Few things are as satisfying as creating the perfect yarn for a special project. This book, first published by Interweave Press in 1987, leads the new or intermediate spinner gently into the world of super-soft luxery fibres, textured effects, and the dyepots miracles. Learn to apply dye to fibres in new and exiting ways; predict how novelty yarns will look in finished fabrics; blend fibres for colour and texture effects; and spin single and plied yarns that will put more zip in your spinning, knitting and crocheting.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #209125 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Customer Reviews

Encouraging and informative
This book assumes a little bit of knowledge in spinning before hand, but it gives you the idea of how to make successful design, not just in the spinning but generally as well. I found it encouraging read, and it includes good practical information about making odd and different yarns. Focused on the effects of any options we have when we are designing yarns. plying or non plying, dying tops or dying as yarn. She ovbiously knows the difficulties we have when we need to choose the options to get what we want.This book eases the uncertainty of unknown yarns yet produced. She warns as well just making yarns without no clear purpose. I think that is very important advise.