--- product_id: 1041510 title: "The Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs: Techniques for Creating 80 Yarns" price: "VT10351" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/1041510-the-spinners-book-of-yarn-designs-techniques-for-creating-80 store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # The Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs: Techniques for Creating 80 Yarns **Price:** VT10351 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs: Techniques for Creating 80 Yarns - **How much does it cost?** VT10351 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/1041510-the-spinners-book-of-yarn-designs-techniques-for-creating-80) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Discover the satisfying fun of spinning your own yarn! This step-by-step guide shows you how to create 80 distinctive yarn types, from classics like mohair bouclé to novelties like supercoils. Covering the entire spinning process, Sarah Anderson describes the unique architecture of each type of yarn and shares expert techniques for manipulating and combining fibers. Take your crafting to a new level and ensure that you have the best yarn available by spinning it yourself. Review: A Spinner's Reference That Even a Novice Can Understand - I'm a novice spinner, who still has difficulty with joins and twist, but THE SPINNER'S BOOK OF YARN DESIGNS may be the book that finally helps me graduate to an intermediate skill level! I really like the clear, step-by-step, full-color photos for long draw, short draw, spinning off the fold, and folded long draw. Although I understand each of these spinning methods in concept, I need pictures to show me what I'm doing wrong. Also, there is a whole page--with five photos!-- that illustrates "The Secret to Good Joins". The book has a chapter on "Spinning Basics", followed by nine more chapters devoted to spinning different types of yarn: (1) singles for plying, (2) stand-alone singles, (3) spiral yarns, (4) opposing plies, (5) boucles, (6) cable yarns, (7) crepe yarns, (8) core yarns, and (9) novelty yarns. These chapters not only have step-by-step photos that explain how the yarn is made, they also have photos of problem yarns. The problem yarn pages explain what went wrong with the yarn, how to fix the problem with spinning the yarn, and sometimes include suggestions for salvaging the bad yarn. Inside the back cover, there is a plastic folder filled with reference cards that you can keep with your wheel when you're making a specific yarn. The cards are printed on heavy card stock, four to a page, and are "punched" so they can be easily separated into individual cards and formed into a deck of cards. The black-and-white cards have page numbers that refer you to the color photos and relevant discussions in the main book. There is a wealth of how-to information in this book that goes far beyond my present novice spinner level. I expect to use THE SPINNER'S BOOK OF YARN DESIGNS as a reference long after I have finally mastered the basics of spinning. There is an excellent glossary, an extended bibliography of how-to books on spinning, and there are also many lovely photos of handspun yarns (similar to the photo on the book's cover). Review: fabulous book - This book is glorious, as are all the Storey line of books. Great instructions, reasoning, pictures...you name it. I am so happy with this book. I spin my yarn on a spindle and because of the explicit instructions it is so easy for me to adapt many of the yarns I would like to make to a spindle. If you use a wheel, then I don't even know how you could be without this book. I was gifted a spinning wheel recently and I may break down and use it just to make some of the lovely yarns in this book. Also, the set of portable instruction cards in the back of the book is a great idea. This is a beautiful looking book and a wonderful instructional book as well. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #177,994 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3 in Spinning | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 696 Reviews | ## Images ![The Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs: Techniques for Creating 80 Yarns - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/911AUrQsA6L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Spinner's Reference That Even a Novice Can Understand *by �***. on February 15, 2013* I'm a novice spinner, who still has difficulty with joins and twist, but THE SPINNER'S BOOK OF YARN DESIGNS may be the book that finally helps me graduate to an intermediate skill level! I really like the clear, step-by-step, full-color photos for long draw, short draw, spinning off the fold, and folded long draw. Although I understand each of these spinning methods in concept, I need pictures to show me what I'm doing wrong. Also, there is a whole page--with five photos!-- that illustrates "The Secret to Good Joins". The book has a chapter on "Spinning Basics", followed by nine more chapters devoted to spinning different types of yarn: (1) singles for plying, (2) stand-alone singles, (3) spiral yarns, (4) opposing plies, (5) boucles, (6) cable yarns, (7) crepe yarns, (8) core yarns, and (9) novelty yarns. These chapters not only have step-by-step photos that explain how the yarn is made, they also have photos of problem yarns. The problem yarn pages explain what went wrong with the yarn, how to fix the problem with spinning the yarn, and sometimes include suggestions for salvaging the bad yarn. Inside the back cover, there is a plastic folder filled with reference cards that you can keep with your wheel when you're making a specific yarn. The cards are printed on heavy card stock, four to a page, and are "punched" so they can be easily separated into individual cards and formed into a deck of cards. The black-and-white cards have page numbers that refer you to the color photos and relevant discussions in the main book. There is a wealth of how-to information in this book that goes far beyond my present novice spinner level. I expect to use THE SPINNER'S BOOK OF YARN DESIGNS as a reference long after I have finally mastered the basics of spinning. There is an excellent glossary, an extended bibliography of how-to books on spinning, and there are also many lovely photos of handspun yarns (similar to the photo on the book's cover). ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ fabulous book *by S***T on May 22, 2013* This book is glorious, as are all the Storey line of books. Great instructions, reasoning, pictures...you name it. I am so happy with this book. I spin my yarn on a spindle and because of the explicit instructions it is so easy for me to adapt many of the yarns I would like to make to a spindle. If you use a wheel, then I don't even know how you could be without this book. I was gifted a spinning wheel recently and I may break down and use it just to make some of the lovely yarns in this book. Also, the set of portable instruction cards in the back of the book is a great idea. This is a beautiful looking book and a wonderful instructional book as well. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Essential for Spinners of All Levels *by C***. on March 3, 2013* I suspect the only way to get more information than what's in this book is if you could go to a camp taught by some of the most skilled spinners in the same league as Judy Mackenzie, Abby Franquemont or Jacey Boggs. The teaching material begins with a solid foundation of choosing and preparing wool, carding, blending, different ways to prepare fiber for spinning and then moves in to the myriad of methods to produce many different types of yarn. All of this is great stuff fo novice spinners. Each style of yarn has photos showing what each ply looks like followed by how the yarn looks through each stage of plying to the final result, then a knitted swatch and sometimes woven swatches are also shown. I was especially impressed that Anderson knit socks made from the same fiber that was spun and plied differently and then compared the feel and durability of the sock. She even made sure she could distinguish each sock and rotated which was worn on which foot so they'd wear evenly. I cannot express how helpful I've found this book and I think it's one of those books that if you had to get rid of all your books but a few, this would be one of the ones I'd keep. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs: Techniques for Creating 80 Yarns - Yarnitecture: A Knitter's Guide to Spinning: Building Exactly the Yarn You Want - The Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook: More Than 200 Fibers, from Animal to Spun Yarn --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/1041510-the-spinners-book-of-yarn-designs-techniques-for-creating-80](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/1041510-the-spinners-book-of-yarn-designs-techniques-for-creating-80) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-06-01*