I went to a five day sock workshop with Judith MacKenzie McCuin a few years ago and she had so many interesting things to say and to show us- including a few examples of well worn socks from her collection. She does agree with most of what you say Holly. It was great to see socks knit with so called delicate fibres (I think it was cashmere), but spun in a tight three ply (or was it a four-ply cable) and knit on small needles. The socks were obviously well worn but still hole free because of the methods used. She also had some made from a harsh feeling fleece but the finished socks were pleasant on the feet because of the tight knitting. As you might imagine in such a long workshop, she had a lot to say about materials used, methods that stood the test of time, myths to break away from, and much much more. She writes for Spin Off all the time and a year or two ago incorporated a lot of that information in an article. I am at work so can't check which issue.
I have every Spin Off magazine ever printed (including some of the ones that were in a newspaper format) and I cannot say that the early ones are that great. The best ones were those that I bought when I first started spinning in 1990 but I wonder if that is just that they suited me at that stage of my spinning? I am a very technical spinner now and that kind of spinning is well covered in Maber Ross's books. One of the most interesting projects in the Canadian masterspinner classes was when we were given four bits of commercial yarn and figured out how to reproduce them. I learned a lot from that. Dianna from SK Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
