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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clara Parkes presents a fast-paced account of the year she spent transforming a 676-pound bale of wool into commercial yarn, and the people and vanishing industry she discovered along the way.
Join Parkes on a cross-country adventure as she meets a flock of Saxon Merino sheep in upstate New York, tours a scouring plant in Texas, visits a steamy Maine dyehouse, helps sort freshly shorn wool on a working farm, and learns how wool fleece is measured,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Every knitter knows the innate joy of purchasing yarn, and many also know the stress and shame that comes with an out-of-control stash. No longer! Let bestselling author, designer and educator Marie Greene change your outlook on buying, organizing and using your yarn for good. With this tried-and-true guide, you'll rediscover the joy in your stash-no yarn diets necessary!-as you learn to find inspiration in the yarn you already have, shop for skeins...
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Decorate your home this Christmas with 23 festive designs. Ornaments, garlands, afghans, pillows, angels, snowmen, gift-card holders and more are included in this book. Designs are made using mostly worsted-weight yarn, plus size 10 crochet cotton and bulky-weight yarn."--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Are you a knitter, crocheter, crafter, or none of the above? This clever book gives yarn lovers--both knitters and non-knitters alike--50 fun ways to use their stashes without taking out their knitting needles. The projects are easy and simple, but with a modern aesthetic that manages to be both sophisticated and inviting. Get your hot glue gun fired up, adhere some pompoms to an old office chair, and make the most ho-hum seat in your house into...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ironically, as we move toward a more technologically advanced world, the simple domestic crafts of old are making a comeback. People of all ages are discovering a deep love for weaving, knitting, crocheting and other fiber arts. Along with that has come the desire to create their own one of a kind, artisan yarns. When it comes to yarn, fiber lovers know that spinning and dying go hand in hand. Yet many books on the yarn craft cover only one topic...
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"'Harvesting Color' presents the entire process of infusing your life with color--finding the right plants, harvesting them at the best time, transforming the crop into beautiful dye, and, finally, marring pigment to fiber. In this beautiful book, Rebecca Burgess showcases thre dozen common plants that yield striking hues. Citing fascinating botanical lore, she demystifies the process of recognizing each plant in the wild. For those you can grow yourself,...
10) Extra yarn
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
12) A bedtime yarn
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Frankie, a little bear, has trouble falling asleep, so his mother gives him a ball of yarn to hold when he goes to bed, keeping the other end in the next room, where she works it into a surprise for Frankie.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Guide Yarny, a creature made of yarn, through a series of puzzles.
"The Yarny Bundle includes Unravel and Unravel Two. Unravel is a visually stunning, physics-based puzzle plaftormer that introduced a new, lovable and endearing character made from a single thread of yearn, that slowlly unravels as he embarks on a seemingly larger than life journey. In Unravel two, create a Yarny of your very own. Then build relationships wiht other Yarnys in local...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
TGIF (Thank Goodness it's Fiber) is the name of the spunky group of fiber and needlework artists founded by Ivy McClellan, Kath's beloved grandmother. Though Ivy has recently passed on, the members still meet regularly at her fiber and fabric shop, The Weaver's Cat, which Kath has now inherited. But that's only the first in a series of surprises when Kath returns to the small town of Blue Plum, Tennessee, to settle her grandmother's affairs. There...
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