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Selvedge Series, Part 2: Two Places to Consider Crochet + Free Video

Learn where it might be a better choice than fringe or hems in this video tip from Spice Up Your Selvedges.

Selvedge Series, Part 1: Dealing with Lace & Weft Floats

Learn tactics for handling scalloped edges in this video tip from Spice Up Your Selvedges.

Long Thread Podcast: Reweaving Marguerite Porter Davison’s Handweaver’s Pattern Book

Season 14, Episode 9: Volunteers have been quietly weaving thousands of samples to bring the classic weaving book back to print. Nearing the finish, Caroline Cooley Browne, Donna Johnson, and Anita Osterhaug discuss the project known as The Big Weave.

Free: More than 20 Knitted and Crocheted Trims for Handwovens

Download a sampler to weave, and then add these trims to practice your finishing techniques.

How to Plan an Unplanned Design

And what do we really mean by “random,” anyway?

You Need This Book! The Yarn Barn of Kansas Required Reading List

Book Club Podcast: Fiber art veterans Susan Bateman and Melissa Parsons compare notes with host Anne Merrow about the books every weaver, spinner, knitter, and crocheter should have on the bookshelf—plus big news about a classic weaving directory.

Yarn Barn Reaches for the Stars with Big Dipper and Little Dipper Tencel Yarns

Imagine owning a weaving store with tons of yarns on the shelves . . . but not finding just the right one. For Yarn Barn of Kansas, the search for the perfect Tencel became a quest to develop their own.

S.A.B.L.E.: Stash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy

It’s never too early to think about what you’d like to have happen to your yarn—and the rest of your studio.

Sample Cards are Tools for Good Weaving

Remove the guesswork about colors when you’re planning a project.

Long Thread Podcast: Chick Colony, Harrisville Designs

Season 14, Episode 1: In the face of dwindling American textile mills, Chick Colony and Harrisville Designs have preserved a historic tradition, kept yarn manufacturing in New England—and drawn weavers and knitters with their yarn and equipment.