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A recipe for knitted flowers

By Inny | Published: 29/10/2010

In order to make your own knitted flower, you’ll need to knit a long strip of fabric, which is wider on one of the long sides than the other. From this you can form either a single rose-type flower, or a double flower. Even within these parameters there is scope for putting them together in [...]

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The Spinning Wheel

By Inny | Published: 02/09/2010

What do you envisage when you think of a spinning wheel? A large, turned object that sits in the middle of the room, cranking slowly around while an old lady treadles for her life? No? Good. I should think not! Us young people do it too. As each generation learns from the last, the types [...]

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A Spinning Glossary

By Inny | Published: 31/08/2010

Some useful terms that you might come across whilst spinning. Batt: Thick sheet of carded fibres. Blending: Combining more than one fibre or colour together so that they act as one. Done by carding. Bobbin: Holds the yarn once it is spun. Break: A weakness in one part of the staple (due to thinning of [...]

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