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Getting Started with Wool Combs

Learn how to comb with confidence and transform fleece into high-quality top, ready for spinning into beautiful yarns.

Course · Spin Off

How to Make a Dorset Button Video + Bonus Pattern

Join Kate Larson as she shares some of the history of Dorset buttons and guides you through making several button styles.

Tablet Weaving Made Easy

Get ready to start tablet weaving with John Mullarkey! This course will cover tips for the best tablet-weaving tools and materials, how to read a tablet-weaving draft, and so much more!

Tatting 101

Take the mystery out of shuttle tatting with this beginner-focused course! Learn the core skills of tatting from the flip to reading a pattern, and, with both right-hand and left-hand demos, you can learn with ease!

Course · PieceWork

A Fiber Artist’s Guide to Color

In A Fiber Artist's Guide to Color, artist Laura Bryant will take you outside of the color wheel so you can create vibrant optical mixtures that are anything but ordinary.

The Yarn Chronicles Series

Have you ever wondered how the yarn you love to knit found its way to your needles? Follow along on the path that a skein of wool takes from the farm to your hands—and fall even deeper in love with your knitting.

5 Ways to Prep and Spin a Braid

Diagnose Your Damage and Make a Mending Plan

We find that many knitters struggle to decide which mending method to use, which yarns will work, and so on. So, let’s talk about it!

Backstrap Rigid Heddle: Weaving Pick-Up Bands

Felt It: Easy Needle Felting for Sweaters & More

Strategies for Structures and Selvedges

Weave Patterns on the Pin Loom: Build Your Skills with Textures Beyond Plain Weave

Episode 4: Planning a Colorful Knitting Project

With simple tools and an understanding of color basics, you can make your knitting shine with color-shifting yarn.

Video · Farm & Fiber Knits

Episode 3: A Knitter’s View of Self-Striping Yarns

A knitwear designer and teacher with a passion for color, Jenny Monteleone wants to help knitters choose yarns without fear.

Video · Farm & Fiber Knits

Episode 2: Developing Colorful Custom Yarns

Feederbrook Farms yarns have a secret ingredient: unpredictability. Lisa Westra refines certain parts of the yarn-making process and leaves room for chance in others. Plus, learn what it takes to prepare for a busy booth at a wool festival.

Episode 1: Feederbrook Farm & Breed-Specific Yarn

Join farmer Lisa Westra to learn why she insists on Bluefaced Leicester for her breed-specific yarn, and follow her through the 13 steps of making Feederbrook Farm’s yarn.

How to Direct Warp: Set Up Your Rigid-Heddle Loom

While there are several methods for warping, the one every rigid-heddle weaver should know is the direct warping method. These instructors will help you learn how to warp like a pro!

Course · Little Looms

Weaving Lace with Madelyn van der Hoogt

Weave Better Selvedges with Sara Bixler

Resources for Plying Silk in the Orenburg Way

Galina Khmeleva shows you step by step how to ply the Orenburg way, using a Russian-style supported spindle with a fine fiber and silk.

Video · Spin Off

Tussie Mussie Preparation Resources for Spinning Silk

Find expert tips for spinning silk with Kim McKenna’s instructions for making a tussie mussie in her article, then watch Kate Larson’s video to see the technique in action.

Episode 4: Knitting It All Together

The journey of small-batch skeins continues as you hear from artisans about their creative process and their connection to farmers and their local communities.

Video · Farm & Fiber Knits

Episode 3: Small-Batch Yarn, Big Impact

Episode 2: In Skilled Hands

Get an up-close look at a vital but often misunderstood part of yarn-making: shearing.

Video · Farm & Fiber Knits