Fall Hobbies and CraftsAutumn is the season when many begin preparing for indoor activities. If you are interested in trying out a crafty new activity, the following titles offer a unique way to express yourself through fibers.
Barbara Parry’s Teach Yourself Visually Hand-Dyeing presents a colorful, and as the title suggests, easy to see guide to hand-dyeing. The book includes: step-by- step instructions, a glossary, a listing of suppliers, major fiber/sheep & wool festivals, craft schools, and additional books of interest.
Showing its reader how to design drafts, Deborah Chandler’s Learning to Weave deals with warping, self-taught weaving.
Teach Yourself Visually Handspinning by Judith Mackenzie McCuin offers two-page lessons on the basic fibers and tools necessary to produce a unique finished product, by means of using either a spinning wheel or an inexpensive spindle.
Weaving Made Easy : 17 Projects Using a Simple Loom by Liz Gipson provides templates for all weavers.
Time to Weave : Simple Elegant Projects to Make in Almost No Time by Jane Patrick contains project ideas not offered in other sources.
Luxury Yarns : One-Skein Wonders edited by Judith Durant shows what time, practice, and color selection can do with only one skein of yarn.
The library also holds a variety of titles (here's a sampling) about more conventional yarn-friendly hobbies, knit and crochet. We welcome your suggestions for purchase.
Barbara Parry’s Teach Yourself Visually Hand-Dyeing presents a colorful, and as the title suggests, easy to see guide to hand-dyeing. The book includes: step-by- step instructions, a glossary, a listing of suppliers, major fiber/sheep & wool festivals, craft schools, and additional books of interest.
Showing its reader how to design drafts, Deborah Chandler’s Learning to Weave deals with warping, self-taught weaving.
Teach Yourself Visually Handspinning by Judith Mackenzie McCuin offers two-page lessons on the basic fibers and tools necessary to produce a unique finished product, by means of using either a spinning wheel or an inexpensive spindle.
Weaving Made Easy : 17 Projects Using a Simple Loom by Liz Gipson provides templates for all weavers.
Time to Weave : Simple Elegant Projects to Make in Almost No Time by Jane Patrick contains project ideas not offered in other sources.
Luxury Yarns : One-Skein Wonders edited by Judith Durant shows what time, practice, and color selection can do with only one skein of yarn.
The library also holds a variety of titles (here's a sampling) about more conventional yarn-friendly hobbies, knit and crochet. We welcome your suggestions for purchase.
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