Margaret Radcliffe

Short sleeved silver 100% silk top with dragon skin scales textured pattern.

A variety of knitting needles, swatches worked in 100% linen, 100% wool, and wool/mohair blend, locks from a variety of sheep breeds, and a ruler, displayed on a black background.

News update! Just confirmed that I'll be teaching my popular online weekend intensive "Fiber to Fabric for Knitters" April 18-19. Many thanks to YarnSmarts.com for sponsoring this class.
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#knitting #yarn #fiberarts #wool #handspun #handspunyarn

five small balls of yarn in varying shades of raspberry and a knitted swatch made up of raspberry and white triangles and squares

Knitting up some new samples for my class “If You Can Knit a Triangle, You Can Make Anything” (starts February 18) with a set of miniskeins I dyed when I taught “Intentional Dyeing for Knitters.” You can learn to make both!
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#knitting #dyeing #dyeingyarn #fiberarts

The Central Virginia Fiberarts Guild is sponsoring this virtual workshop February 28th. Carson is a physical therapist, fiber artist, and the author of the book Knitting Comfortably.
February 28th, 1-4 pm ET. Non-members welcome.
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#knitting #fiberarts #spinning #handspinning

Wool roving laid out in a zigzag in a black metal tray with dye in rainbow stripes across

Rainbow wool roving chained to make a braid and curled into a circle

Roving laid out in a vertical zigzag on a drying rack with turquoise, purple, red and orange painted horizontally across, leaving some white areas

Turquoise, red, deep purple, orange and white handpainted wool roving braided by chaining and bent into a U-shape.

Experimenting with dye techniques, developing an online course for home dyers. Amazing variations using just 4 colors of PROChemical & Dye One Shot dyes. Turkey Red, Turquoise, Pumpkin, and Key Lime (no Key Lime on the dark roving).
#dyeing #dyeingwool #homedyeing #fiberarts #handspunyarn

White wool roving zigzagged in a tray with stripes of dye poured on it in blue, green, orange, and red.

White wool roving zigzagged in a tray with stripes of dye blended to make a rainbow of blue, green, yellow, orange, and red.

Braided wool roving dyed in rainbow of colors and bent into a circle

Playing with dye and roving, developing a home dyeing class to be offered online. Love the way the colors sing in this one.
#justfourcolors #dyeingwool #wool #spinning #handdpinning #color #fiberart

Such gorgeous colors!

Knitted fabric - brioche or fisherman's rib in variegated lavender, purple, blue wool yarn

knitted fabric with columns of single-stitch knit ribs alternating with two stitches of garter stitch in antique rose cotton yarn

Do you ever wish you could work ribbing without purling? Work brioche rib without YOs and K2togs? The Lazy Knitter's Guide to Pattern Stitches, February 4, 2026.
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#knittingclass #knittingworkshop #knittingtechniques #knitbelow

Natural oatmeal-colored gansey-style sweater, hanging against a wooden trellis

I like to substitute Rose Fabric for seed stitch, worked by "knitting below" with no purling at all. Learn how in The Lazy Knitter's Guide to Pattern Stitches, online, February 4th.

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#knit #knitting #yarn #knittingworkshop #knittingpatterns #fiberart #fiaberarts

Close-up photos of the edges of 6 pieces of knitting illustrating different cast ons.

Do you only know one cast on? It’s time to branch out! Learn all the basic cast ons and what situations they’re best for. Then advance to decorative variations. Online March 4, 2026.

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#knitting #handknitting #colorknitting #fiberarts #yarn

Purple wool, held in stainless steel tongs, suspended over a sink

Heat setting some wool in preparation for a dyeing class I’m developing. I hope to offer Minimalist Dyeing in late 2026 or in 2027. It will focus on dyeing small amounts of wool safely, at home, with minimal equipment, and minimal expense. Would you be interested?

#wool #dyeing #spinning #fiberarts

progressively smaller knitted squares, each rotated 45 degrees and set inside each other, in a variety of colors

Registration open now! If You Can Knit a Triangle You Can Knit Anything! February 18 & 25, 2026. Simple approach to designing on the needles, starting with a triangle and progressing to modular structures with NO sewing.

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#knit #knitting #yarn #colorknitting

The instructor for my class was Annie Erbsen, who teaches occasionally at the John C. Campbell Folk School. Her classes fill up very quickly!
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Gluten-Free Pie Crust made with Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour This gluten-free pie crust has golden color and a flaky texture. Our gluten-free pie crust is the best option for all of your gluten-free pies!

But, I've been seeing good reviews of the King Arthur GF Pie cruse, so you might want to try that.
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Gluten-Free Pie Crust made with Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour This gluten-free pie crust has golden color and a flaky texture. Our gluten-free pie crust is the best option for all of your gluten-free pies!

Thanks! The crust is homemade. I'm not comfortable sharing the crust recipe because it's a long handout from a class I took a couple of years ago. I don't want to infringe on the instructor's copyright.

pecan pie on top of a baking sheet on a gas stove top

Creative energy focused on food, not fiber. GF pecan pie for New Year’s Eve. What do you want to learn in 2026 ? I’ll post more about my 2026 knitting and dyeing workshops in the coming days.

#pie #pecanpie #fiberarts #fiberartsworkshops #glutenfree #knittingworkshops #dyeingworkshops

Need a quick gift for the fiber artist in your life? Find the perfect online knitting class on Lessonface. Everything from cast ons to finishing techniques.

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#knitting #knittingtechniques #knittingclass #knittingworkshop

Pair of tiny red mittens with black cuffs hanging on an evergreen bough from braided yarn cords

Need a tiny gift or ornament? It's not too late! Try these quick-to-knit Mini Mittens.

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#yarn #knitting #christmastornament #knittedchristmasornament #miniatures

Jar of pickled red cabbage in foreground, on top of folded green and white kitchen towel, with paper towel roll and kitchen utensils in background

This is the time of year when my creative energy tends to turn from fiber to food. Always a good idea to start the day with something bright and tasty: pickled red cabbage. A perfect companion to the Christmas ham.

#food #pickledfood #christmasfood #fiber

Six skeins natural brown wool yarn hanging over a shower curtain rod

Handspun Shetland from Baize Shetlands skeined, soaked, and drying. Once dry, I'll get a final weight and yardage and check yards per pound for each skein to see if they are consistent.
#yarn #handspunyarn #shetlandwool #wool

Screenshot of slides in a Powerpoint presentation showing color blending and gradient yarn samples of 11 students.

A few days ago I taught the last session of my class Color Blending and Spinning Gradient Yarns to a delightful, creative, thoughtful group of students. Isn't their work amazing?
#fiberart #handspinning #yarn #colorblending #fiberprep #handspunyarn #gradientyarn #spinningwool #spinningandfiberprep

At the John C. Campbell Folk School last weekend for a cotton spinning class. Hand picked the fiber off the seed, whacked and fluffed it with a pair of bamboo skewers, & spun it on a spindle made from a skewer and a chunk of potato!
#fiberart #handspinning #handspunyarn #spinningcotton #yarn

It was @jillianmoreno.bsky.social ‘s article in the spring issue of Ply Magazine that reminded me of this technique.

I like it better than plying three colors together. The color variations are more interesting. I tried 4 colors, but they didn’t want to cooperate. To make drafting easier, I might mount the three colors on combs and diz them off to make a 3-color roving.

Small skein of blue and green yarn next to top-whorl spindle with spinning of three colors of blue and greens in progress.

I’ve moved on from two colors to drafting three colors together. I like the subtler interactions.

#yarn #handspunyarn #handspinning #fiberarts

Ropes of dark green, deep blue, bright green, and turquoise wool top on a table

Five mini skeins of yarn spun in combinations of dark green, fed to blue, bright green, and turquoise. A wooden top-whorl spindle partially filled with bright green and turquoise single-ply yarn lies on top.

Playing with color combinations. 4 solids of vintage top from my stash and am “dual drafting” them, holding two colors together at a time, then making a 2-ply from those singles. So interesting to see how the colors interact.
#handspunyarn #handspinning #fiberarts #spindlespinning #yarn

Do you plan to ply them? If so, I’d tie the ends together using a slip knot as you wind them into a bobbin. Then, whine plying, pull out the slip knot, overlap the two ends, and ply across the join.

I would expect the Columbia to be noticeably shorter than the Leicester Longwool. Did you find them harder to doin because of that?

Niddynoddy, spindle full of yarn, pile of small skeins of yarn, and a coffee cup on a patio table with potted plants, garden shed, and garden bed in the background.

Coffee and fiber outside. I’m indulging in “slow spinning,” using a single Bosworth Spindle for the entire project (~21 oz in 5 different colors). This is the last color.
#handspinning #yarn #handspunyarn #spindlespinning #bosworthspindles

Mini skeins of several shades of dark red yarn, two balls of roving in orange and dark red, and a top whorl drop spindle, lying on a Longwool sheepskin

These are the first two of a five-color sequence. The keystone of this arch is a transitional skein with one ply of each color. Vintage fiber from my stash, blended by David Simpson.

#yarn #handspun #handspunyarn #wool #spinningwool #spindlespinning #spinningyarn