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Let's Weave Log Cabin! I love weaving log cabin on my rigid heddle loom because it's so easy and rewarding to see such an intricate pattern appear right before my eyes.   Log-cabin is a color and weave technique; the pattern looks complicated, but it is not!  It is just a two-shaft plain weave that produces areas of smart vertical and horizontal pinstripes. You can think of weaving log cabin in two blocks.  "Block A" will be warped light, dark, light, dark while "Block B" will be warped dark, light, dark, light. Then once you have your loom warped by repeating these two blocks,...

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Cotton Clouds — now a mother & daughter team!  It is with great pleasure that I announce that Jodi  & Jessica Ybarra will become the new owners of Cotton Clouds, Inc.  March 1, 2021. Come Join Them! Truth be told, Jodi knows more about Cotton Clouds than I do! Over the past 35 years, Jodi Ybarra has taken over all operations of ordering, shipping, product development and a natural way of treating customers with compassion and kindness.    I am very proud of her!  If you haven’t spoken or emailed Jodi yet, you’ll be in for a treat. She’s a self-taught...

What words come to mind when you think about spinning cotton?   At CottonClouds.com, we make cotton spinning easy with quality tools and instruction. But you don’t have to take it from us! We asked Rebecca, to whom we recently sent our All About Cotton Spinning kit, to put in her own words, her experience spinning cotton for the first time! Take it away, Rebecca!  A New Spinner’s Experience Thanks to Cotton Clouds for the opportunity to share my experience here! I have been a knitter for 13 years and have been practicing my crochet skills for 5 years, you can see...

I have been a spinner where I “let the fiber tell me what to do”. This is not a bad starting place However, when you are spinning for a project, most likely you will not spin all that you need in one day. The second day the fiber could “say” it wanted to be thicker or you could just be in a different mood. The size of your yarn changes and thus, your project yarn is inconsistent. Here are a few tips to help maintain consistency. Finer yarns are easier to spin consistently and cotton as a fine fiber “wants” to...