Push your spinning skills to new heights and get adventurous with textured yarn.
Jacey Boggs helps you bring textured yarns to the next level in Spin Art. Inside you'll learn all the secrets behind her exciting new fusion of traditional spinning and envelope-pushing creativity.
The yarn styles explored in this comprehensive spinning guide are as well made as they are inventive. Jacey walks you through each of her techniques, with a refreshing mixture of quirky, fanciful, and unexpected designs that are always skillfully constructed. Inside you'll discover:
• How to create innovative, eye-catching single and plied spun yarn styles, including wraps, beehives, bumps, racing stripes, loops, bubblewrap, multiplied, and more.
• Detailed technical instruction with step-by-step photos with finished spun yarn and swatch close-ups.
• Jacey's bright personality and motivational tips to inspire all spinning enthusiasts to unleash their creative spirit.
As a bonus, the instructional DVD provides additional handspinning demonstration and commentary to complement the techniques in the book. Jacey has bottled the energy and expertise of her highly sought after workshops into a personal, at-home textured yarn workshop experience for you.
Spin Art is an irresistible adventure for spinners who are interested in creating delightful and durable textured yarns. Introduction
Equipment
Tips
Single Techniques
Wraps
Racing Stripe
Autowrap
Tornado
Corespinning
Basic Corespun
Autowrapped Corespun
Cocoons
Tailspinning
Extreme Tailspinning
Bumps
Thick and Thin
Beehives
Foreign Objects
Strung
Integrated
Plied Techniques
Bumps
Spiral Spinning
Stacks
Stack Traps
Supercoils
Coils
Loops
Twists
Halos
Cogs
Boucle
Fauxcle
Multiplied
Cables
Beaded
Chain Ply
Chain Stacks
Combination
Bubblewrap
Corehive
Rip Torn
Tex Ritter
Afterword
About the Author
Jacey Boggs runs the popular spinning website insubordiknit.com. Spinners around the world have explored new yarn techniques from her DVD Sit & Spin and her spinning workshops. She teaches through guilds, yarn shops, and at national and international events. She is a regular contributor to Spin-Off magazine. She lives in Missouri. Item #: 11SP01
ISBN: 978-1-59668-362-4
144 pages
Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 9
Amazingly clear instructions! Even as a newbie spinner, I believe I can accomplish this! Love her explanations and detail. The DVD is great!
Beautiful book, great teaching
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This fun, clearly-written book and DVD combo is an amazing authoritative guide to creating textured and art yarns. Jacey presents a wide variety of techniques in an order which allows the spinner to build upon skills previously learned in the book. Her goal is not just to teach us to make pretty yarns, but to make functional, useable yarn which looks great and has unique qualities. Jacey draws upon her knowledge of fiber and principles of spinning which yields fantastic results! I have already bought a copy of this book for myself and for a friend, so I'd most highly recommend it!
This book has it all - gorgeous photos, stunning yarn, detailed instructions, and an amazing (long!) DVD that comes right along with the book. Even if you don't like textured/art yarn, you will enjoy this book and it will improve your spinning. If you do like textured art yarn, then this is one of the best fiber-related investments you could make. If you are a beginner, don't be intimidated by the techniques - this is a book that you can use now and learn from for years to come.
The yarns in Spin Art are innovative and interesting, but could also easily be used to knit with. Not to say that yarn needs to be functional or have an obvious use, but this book is a wonderful bridge between non-traditional spinning and solid traditional technique. For example, a large portion of the book is devoted to plying techniques, something that has been overlooked to a large extent in the recent art yarn craze. I think that as the newest spinning generation comes of age, there will be more emphasis on technical textured spinning and plying structure. Spin Art is blazing the trail.
The DVD on its own is easily worth the price of the book. The camera angles are good and show a range of wide shots and close-ups that make it easy to follow the techniques. I love seeing the skeins of yarn from the book on the DVD - you get a sense of their balance, drape and durability when you see them handled. Jacey also shows knit samples of the yarns, which I found to be a great addition to the book/DVD set.
The ultimate in tutorials!
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Hi All!
I received my book as a Christmas present from my best friend; and this present secured her spot at the top of the list. This book has hit the mark on art yarn tutorials (and I haven't yet had the chance to see the video that comes with it).
Jacey Boggs has hit the mark on the "how to's" and "why's" of what makes art yarns / textured yarns work. On top of being a great book for spinners, the wonderful layout and great pictures make it a super "Coffee Table" book.
If this is what her FIRST book is like I can't wait to see what's up her sleeve for the next one.
Must have for textured spinning
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The CD alone is worth he price of the book.
the instructions are very clear-almost like being in a class with Jacey
Spin Art: Mastering the Craft of Spinning Textured Yarn + DVD
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Push your spinning skills to new heights and get adventurous with textured yarn.
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