Spinning Designer Yarns

By Diane Varney

Book Overview

This inspiring illustrated guide teaches experienced spinners to make beautiful designer yarns and encourages them to be more creative and have more fun with spinning. Handspun yarns can be white,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193149939X
• ISBN13: 9781931499392
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Interweave Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent guide for advanced techniques

Great book I was looking for... Well written with step by step instructions and illustrations. I like this book!

Want to expand your spinning horizons? This is a book for you!

Having gone to Nova Scotia for a spinning workshop in exotic and novelty spinning, this book was a wonderful find on my return home. Diane Varney clearly and consisely details how to create slub yarns, snarl yarns, fuzzy yarns, boucles, various cabled yarns. Using her techniques as a foundation, the possibilities become endless to apply these to any combination of fibers and embellishments to one's yarn creations. A definite plus to any spinner's library!

designers yarns

Outstanding guide to making designer yarns. She covers a lot of territory and inspired me to try things that I would not have thought about on my own.

Just what I was looking for

I have only been spinning for a short while, but I knew I wanted to explore beyond the basics, maybe get into making art yarns and the like...this book fits the bill perfectly, it assumes you know basic techniques and explains ways to move beyond....I am very pleased with this book!

Excellent for advanced techniques in yarn spinning & design

With color photo examples, excellent clear black & white illustrations and well written step by step instruction, this book shows how to advance beyond the creation of a simple basic yarn on a spinning wheel. Fascinating techniques such as core-spun, overtwist, snarl, knotted, tuffed yarns are just some of yarns you will be able to learn along with various dyeing methods, yarn texture and design