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CREATIVE SPINNING Alison Daykin & Jane Deane $16.75ppd

Reconnect with the ancient craft of spinning and let your imagination run wild with this beautiful book, packed full with ideas for creating yarns inspired by nature. Suitable for beginners and more experienced spinners alike, this attractive guide offers 30 beautiful projects that teach a repertoire of skills on both the hand spindle and spinning wheel. It starts with simple, basic combing, twisting, plying, and finishing, then goes on to offer a primer on working with fibers. Once you have learned the basics, the 30 projects show you how to experiment with spinning anything from angora and silk, to bamboo or flax. With life-size samples of raw fibers and spun yarn, plus swatches to show you what the yarn looks like when it is knitted, ou'll have all the inspiration you need. Beautiful color photos, 112 pgs.

"Our Patch" Lavender Oil & Beeswax Polish is a product formulated especially for Majacraft to pamper your wheel and keep it looking in top condition. Produced from organic lavender and selected beeswax, it maintains the fragrance in the pot as well as giving protection and life to the wood of your wheel. Use a little and often to keep your wheel healthy and looking like new. 10-gm container - $9.95

Comes with padded carry bag

the folding Kromski Sonata · wheel diameter - 19" · folded dimensions: 22" by 19" · orifice height - 30", but can be raised as much as 2"; size - 3/8" · bobbin size - full 4 oz.; 3 included; will fit all other Kromski wheels · single drive with Scotch tension · also includes threading hook, attached Lazy Kate and bottle of spinning wheel oil; uses an elastic drive band · Ratios: 6.7, 12.5, 14 to 1; · ball bearings on wheel crank · weight - 11.5 lbs. . padded bag included Available with a clear lacquer or walnut finish. Sonata w/bag, clear lacquer finish $520 Sonata w/bag, walnut finish $540 Sonata padded bag $120 Sonata Jumbo Flyer, 1 bobbin, front maiden post $87.95     ratios 5, 7.5 and 10 to 1. Orifice size: .7"     available in clear or walnut finish Sonata Faster Flyer (uses regular bobbins) $57.95     ratios 12, 16, 18:1     available in clear or walnut finish   Detta's prices include shipping.

Felting needles

Felt with dry wool! Do things you can't do with a wet felting process!  Felting Needles $1.25 each , 4/$4.75, 10/$9.95 - Mix or match. Prices include mailing. #1 - EXTRA FINE, TRIANGULAR BLADE - 40-gauge wire. Used with very fine fiber and cloth. #2 - FINE, STAR BLADE - 38-gauge wire. Good for delicate work with fine fiber and cloth. #3 - FINE, TRIANGULAR BLADE - 38-gauge wire, Used with fine to medium fine fiber and attaching hair to dolls. #4 - MEDIUM, TRIANGULAR BLADE - 36-gauge wire.Used with medium to coarse fiber and attaching hair to dolls.  Felting Needle Starter Pack - $5.49    4 different needle styles (1 each of the above styles) with information sheet Ashford Felting Needles Punch Handle holds up to 4 needles for larger projects. Comes with five 36-gauge Ashford all-purpose needles. $39.95 Ashford felting neeedles, pkg/10 $9.95

INTRODUCTION TO NEEDLE FELTING: Sculpting a Doll with Sharon Costello 131 minutes $41.50 What a wonderfully fun video to learn this popular craft by! The dolls that Sharon makes are fabulously detailed. Watching her make the face is downright cheerful! She leads you through making the face, body, fine clothing, hands, feet, hair, and accessory details. Your resulting doll comes alive with its own personality! This technique uses no water; the wool remains dry. You will use felting needles to felt your wool fibers together. (1 needle included) Sharon reviews the type of fiber needed to work with when doing needle felting. VHS

The newest book . . .
MAKING FACES using Wet and Dry Felting Methods $19.25 (Patricia Spark) The felting needle is a great aid to the hand feltmaker. By combining this tool with traditional felting techniques, you can greatly increase the creative potential of this medium. The needle has small notches along its edges which push fiber along to intermix with the fiber lying below it. Thus, the fibers are tangled together creating felt, without the need for soap or water! With the needle you can be very precise, attaching small amounts of fiber just where you'd like them to bee. Three-dimensional shapes can easily be added to a surface, increasing the potential for sculptural form. The possibilities are endless. In this book, Spark shows how to use the needle to create faces. By combining the sculptural possibilities of the felting needle with traditional felting, you can add faces to any of your favorite felt forms. Paperback, spiral lay-flat binding, b&w photos & drawings. 64 pgs.

SIMPLY FELT: 20 easy and elegant designs in wool $26.50 (Margaret Docheerty & Jayne Emerson) This new book covers quite a range of possibilities! Learn about: Making felt from old knitted fabrics; Making felt from raw wool and other fibers; Felting by hand or washing machine; Creating flat fabrics and sculptural shapes; Inlaying fibers for color and texture effects; Easy step-by-step instructions. Projects include a book cover, shoulder bag, briefcase, scarves, lampshade, runner, bucket bag, three kinds of slippers, hat, glasses case, and more. From Interweave Press, so you know it's good! Lots of color. 128pgs.

THE MAGIC OF HANDWEAVING: The Basics and Beyond (Sigrid Piroch)  $25.50  This is an extremely interesting book, as well as a valuable how-to resource for both new and experienced weavers. Sigrid Piroch is an experienced weaver who leads readers on a journey through the world of cloth. She guides you through the beginning stages of weaving, from planning and designing, to the final stages, when the beautiful piece of cloth is ready to take off the loom. You will learn about weavers around the world who weave cloth out of necessity, tradition, and art. This is a resource for all those with an interest in this amazing process, as well as those with a desire to learn. Lots of close-up photos and descriptions of a variety of looms, loom parts, tools, weave structures, color patterns, and useful and colorful projects. An exceptional book! Lots of color, 144 pgs.

HAND WOOLCOMBING AND SPINNING: A Guide to Worsteds from the Spinning Wheel $31.75  (Peter Teal)  bk011u Here is a book for handspinners who aspire to a high standard of professional excellence in their work. The book rediscovers many of the old methods and applies modern technological principles to the forgotten trade of woolcombing. It explains how to make the tools, how to prepare, dye and blend the fibre, and finally how to spin a worsted yarn of controlled quality and specification. The serious student of spinning will find vital information on how much twist to give a yarn for a stated end use; how much oil to apply to raw, scoured fibre; how to assess the suitability of a spinning wheel for a specific type of yarn. The wool combs, jigs, pad, diz, spinning wheels, scales, etc., illustrated were all made by Teal in his workshop, powered by a 14-foot diameter water wheel. Color & b&w photos, line drawings, old woodcut reproductions. Hardcover, 187 pgs.

TWO-END KNITTING: A Traditional Scandinavian Technique also known as "Twined Knitting" $25.00 (Anne-Maj Ling) Two-ended knitting is a Scandinavian knitting technique where one knits with two ends of the the same yarn, resulting in a unique look. This translation of a Swedish book provides basic information, patterns, and photos of wonderful mittens, hats, socks, and sweaters. Interesting to read and easy to follow! 104 pgs.

5"h x 5"w made by Sonia (#2) $15.00 ppd

6-1/2"h x 7-3/4"w made by Alicia (#3) $12.50 ppd

8"h x 7-1/2"w made by Sonia (#4) $16.50 ppd

Patricio and Sonia live on a beautiful Andes mountainside near the town of Ambato, raising fruits and vegetables for their living. Sonia takes Adrian, their son, down the mountain on a donkey each day to school. I wish this talented young woman could come to the U.S. and stay with us for while. What wonderful things she could teach us! Pictured: Eileen (Alicia's daughter), Sonia, Adrian, & Patricio