For this issue’s theme of Arts & Crafts, we asked readers to enjoy the process of making something useful, beautiful, or both, with the note, “The slower, the better.” Our creative readers stretched their talents and created some unique yarns.
ROSEMARY S. MALBIN OF HOUSTON, TEXAS
Corn silk spun onto 20/2 silk, plied with gold braid yarn. 15 wpi, 1,300 ypp “Spinning Silk onto Gold.”
SHIRLEY LYSTER OF POWELL RIVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Corriedale top, handcarded. 13 wpi, 1,100 ypp
“I blended three shades of Corriedale top for a heathered yarn and divided into four lots for handcarding. I layered pink, then burgundy, then pink/mauve, and carded once. I pulled off the batt and folded it in half lengthwise, drafted lengthwise, spun onto one bobbin, then Andean plyed.”
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