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Respect the Spindle
Enjoying a resurgence in popularity thanks to the current trend of DIY crafts, the hand spindle remains one of the most productive, versatile, and convenient tools for creating stunning fiber arts from home, as this beautifully illustrated guide from a veteran spinner and spindle aficionado demonstrates. With step-by-step instructions, this essential manual details the basic steps of spinning and then advances to the more complicated spinning wheel, showing how to use the spindle to make specific types of yarn, explaining traditional spindle spinning techniques, and detailing five simple projects designed to instill confidence in creating a variety of yarns with this simple tool. Combining fascinating historical narratives, traditions, and cultures from around the globe with vivid photography, this all-encompassing tour of the spindle also boasts easy-to-follow, contemporary techniques and styles that affirm the tool's enduring legacy.
Life and Death in the Andes
"Kim MacQuarrie tells ... stories of South America's history, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to the last survivor of an Indian tribe, all ... set in the Andes Mountains"--
Yarn Substitution Made Easy
An in-depth guide to choosing the right yarn for your project—including ten patterns that explore how different yarns affect your final product. If you want to change the yarn in a designer’s knitting pattern, you’ll face a basic question: “What art the best substitutions?” In this comprehensive guide, Carol J. Sulcoski gives you all the information you need to learn in order to evaluate the types of yarns and patterns that are best suited for each other. She focuses on specific yarn characteristics that will dramatically affect the substitution process, breaks down the process into manageable steps, and provides ten versatile, classic patterns on which to experiment with your own yarn substitutions, each one with swatch photo of three possible alternative replacements as starting points.
The French Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress
A resilient widow has what it takes to keep a playboy billionaire on his toes in this scorching romance from the USA Today–bestselling author. Devastatingly handsome French tycoon Pascal Lévêque has his sights set on sports reporter Alana Cusack. Her aloofness intrigues him—as well as her reluctance to connect with him on anything but a professional level. Alana’s celebrity marriage to an Irish soccer star was a sham. It left her feeling unattractive and unwanted, even after her husband’s tragic death. Now that Pascal has claimed her as his mistress, he’ll teach Alana how to let down her guard—especially in the bedroom . . . But passion leads to pregnancy, and Pascal vows he’ll take Alana to Paris—and to the altar!
Ancient Advanced Technology in South America
There are a host of ancient ruins in South America, claimed by the Inca, inherited by the Inca, conquered by the Inca and built by the Inca. Although one label has stuck on each monument or ancient site, it is clear there are many layers of construction, physically and conceptually. Academics and Scholars still debate who built these, monuments, did they inherit them? Was there a Pre-Inca culture, but everyone can appreciate how advanced the ‘Inca Ancient Ruins’ found in the highlands of South America. The Inca were largest empire ever seen in the Americas and the largest in the world at that time, yet doubt is cast on their monuments and origins. Tiahuanaco, a region of Bolivia that hol...
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The Spinner's Book of Fleece
The characteristics of fleece — its structure, grease content, and fiber diameter — vary widely depending on the breed of sheep the fleece comes from. In this comprehensive guide, Beth Smith profiles 21 types of fleece, from bouncy and pliant to lacy and lightweight. A sheep-by-sheep reference describes the best way to wash and spin each fleece into rich, soft yarn. You’ll soon be confidently choosing the right fleece, spinning it to perfection, and enjoying the perfect yarn for your next fiber creation.
The Intentional Spinner
Offering a blend of technical knowledge, history, and easy-to-use tips, this inspiring collection of spinning wisdom deftly explores the three fundamental areas of yarn production: understanding fibers, managing yarn structure, and making yarns that precisely meet the spinner's needs. The rich, historic traditions of plant and animal fibers are fascinatingly juxtaposed with recent advances in synthesized fiber and mankind's use of fibers in the past, present, and future, while detailed, image-laden instructions for four intermediate projects demonstrate the range of possibilities, from sturdy, plied yarns to playful, novelty yarns. Spinners are also offered guidance on planning a project from start to finish, as well as how to care for and store completed projects.
