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Archive - Summer into Autumn 2013
Injured hand woes — Colourful thrums crochet — Dyeing with the flowerbeds — Spinning again! — Show preparations — Insect friends — Colour inspiration and narrow warps


Archive - Winter into Spring 2013
Winter blues and winter finds — Colourful silk interlude — Early spring injury — Takadai braiding — Friends and remembrance — New small shuttles


Archive - Summer and Fall 2012
Braids 2012 Conference and its Proceedings — Logwood dyeing — Inkle looms and inkle bands — The Knitting and Stitching shows — Voting and a musical interlude


Archive - Winter into Spring 2012
Spinner on a tile — Handspun linen lace — Surprises from the silk stash — Weaving crackle sparkle — Big Guy — Friendship and spindles — Dyeing hankies in the microwave


Archive - The Year 2011
Lucets and their uses — Sunny yellow silk — Travel skeining — "Squared Circle" spindles — Weaving crackle — Spring silliness — Springtime silks — Sing a song of soumak


Archive - Autumn into Winter 2010
The Knitting & Stitching shows — Alexandra Palace — Gasometers — Handweavers Studio, London — Inklette loom — Icelandic fleece — Autumn silks — Victorian spindle — Snow — Cat hair and silk — Big Guy — Herding cats


Archive - Late Summer 2010
Summer vacation — Complex Weavers and Convergence — Janice Arnold, felt artist — Dyeing with fibre-reactive dyes — Making wide backstraps from narrow woven bands


Archive - Early Summer 2010
Copper silk, copper yarns — 19th-Century banner with tassel — Coquelicot, an ever-inspiring Red — Pink and green tassel — Sparkly red band — Semi-rigid heddles with backstrap


Archive - Winter-Spring 2010
Silk-Merino-Alpaca scarf — Dong spinning wheel — Friendship — The perfect spindle — Dyeing silks — Parisian flea market — Green silk and a Book of Hours — The Louet Victoria wheel — Green silk yarn — "Necessity" spindle — Blackberry silk and crochet


Archive - The Year 2009
Weaving a sewing-thread ribbon — Tassel yarns — Beginner's tassels — More tassel threads — My mother — ANWG conference — A travel swift — Space-dyed tussah — Spinning silk hankies — Spinning silk noil — My father — Magical silk and merino


Archive - Summer-Fall 2008
Convergence 2008 — Bamboo fibre — A worsted pick-me-up — Rainbow dyepot — Spinning rainbow rovings — Making movies — Silk gleams in merino — Woodworking — Knitting & Stitching shows — Knitting Aid — New Brain with tablet-woven strap


Archive - Winter-Spring 2008
Travels with charkha — Yarns and decluttering — Fine silk inkle — Marled silk yarns — Spinning in winter — Handspun Tencel inkle — Notebook for dye records — Electric spinner — Colour inspirations — Dover — April snow — Silk flowers


Archive - Autumn 2007
Preparing for shows — Dyeing silk — Making spindles — War memorial — Dyeing a sunrise — Dye variegations — Making kits — Marigolds — Colour and nature


Archive - Summer 2007
Dressing a distaff with line flax — Amazing sheep — Bibracte — Fine linen band — Blue and grey Romney worsted — Korean braiding — Improvised braiding equipment — Dyeing and plying silk — Colours and pastels


Archive - Late spring 2007
The new (old) wheel — Silk mill waste and eyelash yarn — Portrait of a double-flyer wheel — A tale of two flyers — Weaving and tidiness — Flax tow yarns — Spinning with both hands on a gossip wheel


Archive - Spring 2007
A shawl pin — Washing fleece — The red wheel arrives — Wheel repairs — Blending wool and silk — Nagging cat — Travel spinning — For the birds! — My mother's knitting — Handspun silk bookmark — The joy of spring


Archive - Winter 2006-2007
Blending on a carding drum — Soften color by blending fibers — Unplanned dye day — Temptation — A warp reel for narrow weaving — Fetch hooks


Archive - Autumn 2006
Making a floor spindle — Spinning on a mini-Navajo spindle


Archive - Summer 2006
Silk caps on a distaff — Carded cameldown-silk blend — Italian silk waste — The challenge of "free" wool





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