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Spin-Off Magazine
Interweave Press

Magazine, $7.99
September 2009
112 pages.

Celebrate the International Year of Natural Fibre (Fiber) with Spin Off. The focus is on starting from the ground up. Learn how to raise silk worms, goats, wash fleece, grow cotton, and spin with wolves. The armchair traveler takes a tour of shops in New Jersey. The featured breed is the Scotch mule sheep. Also visit Ten Thousand Villages and other fair trade fiber and craft cooperatives. The yarn harlot shows you what to do with spoors. Spoors are the fiber bunnies that roll acorss your floor after a spinning gathering.

My fav this month is the Fall Leaves Shawl Saga. The colors and designs are fabulous. This issue also offers a fiber resource guide so you can find the CVM fleece, Navaho Churra, or whatever breed or natural fiber your heart has been desiring. The pattern this month is a lace sock with the Scotch Mule yarn. Enjoy!
-Ursula