A beginner's guide to the art of spinning your own fabulous yarn using a drop spindle.

Want to spin your own beautiful yarn? Expert spinner Vanessa Kroening shows you how in this easy introduction
to spinning with a drop spindle.

Learn to clean and prepare fleece for spinning, how to card, blend colours, make rolags and batts, and then transform your fleece into wonderful lengths of scrumptious yarn. Choose the colour and thickness, use dye and add beads, sequins and other embellishments to create your own unique yarns.

Spinning with a drop spindle isn’t just fun – it's amazingly relaxing and highly creative too. So be inspired by this wonderful craft and then use your yarn masterpieces to take your knitting, crochet, felting and weaving to a whole new level!

This accessible and inspiring introduction to drop-spindle spinning is ideal for fibre artists, knitters, crocheters, felters and weavers.

Vanessa Kroening explains how to clean and prepare fleece for spinning, giving valuable tips to beginners and more experienced spinners alike. There are sections on choosing a fleece, carding, blending colours, making rolags (rolls of fibre), batts (flat carded fibres) and a step-by-step explanation of how to use a drop spindle – a great way to spin your own yarn without needing to invest in an expensive spinning wheel.

Vanessa also shows you to how to ply and dye your yarn and how to add beads, sequins and other decorative elements for a modern and wonderfully artistic finish.