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Tracking Your Spinning - Spinning Template Cards In an effort to get organized and hopefully see improvement of my spinning, I created some spinning project cards. Help yourself to them. Creating a simple 4x6 index card with some info about how you got to where you got to on a finished project and putting a few inches of the spun yarn on the card helps if you ever hope to repeat it.
The Importance of Keeping Records
The Importance of Keeping Records | by Caryn Vainio | On Spinning and Knitting | Medium
A Handspun Household
One of my favorite things about being a spinner is wearing or using items I have made from handspun yarn. I love knowing that something I or a friend has spun is being truly appreciated.
HJS Studio Understanding Twist Angles
Measuring the twist angle of a singles yarn
Record keeping - Josefin Waltin spinner
When I keep physical records of a fleece I make samples of a staple, singles, plies, weaving and knitting. Sometimes also a felted woven sample.
For the Record: How to Maintain Good Spinning Notes
For the Record: How to Maintain Good Spinning Notes | Spin Off
How do I select a spinning wheel?
How to choose a spinning wheel Halcyon Yarn Blog
Self-Sufficiency: Spinning, Dyeing & Weaving
In this comprehensive book, an expert textile arts instructor reveals everything readers need to know to make their own fabrics. This book explains where different fibers come from, how to grow and harvest your own vegetable fibers, and how to prepare them for spinning. The principles of spindle and spinning wheel spinning are covered, along with home dyeing using natural dyestuffs, and hand weaving with or without a loom. Finally, there are a number of simple projects, such as a rug, shoulder bag, bed cover, and jumper and mitts to put your newly learned skills to the test.
The Whole Craft of Spinning
Everything you need to know from set-up to finished product in order to create distinctive yarns for use in knitting, weaving, crocheting, needlepoint, embroidery, and macrame. Author's preface. 33 illustrations, 10 black-and-white photographs. Bibliography.
Research and documenting how they spun.
This is a good site exploring the differences between drop and in-the-hand spinning.