#48 - The Hue Issue, Spring 2025

PLY Magazine — Hue Issue

The Hue issue takes you on a rich, colorful journey — from the natural shades found in sheep breeds and the genetics behind them, all the way through the earliest dyes humans used on cloth, and into the joyful, intentional world of choosing, blending, and dyeing color on fiber and yarn.

You’ll explore the big questions color-loving spinners ask all the time. Should you dye fiber before spinning — or spin first and dye the yarn? What about dyeing at an intermediate stage of a project? This issue walks through the options and shows you how each choice shapes the final yarn. Struggling to pick colors for a stranded knitting project? You’ll find guidance there too, plus a project ready and waiting once your palette is set.

Got fiber in your stash that you love everything about… except the color? You’re not alone. This issue offers thoughtful ideas for blending and spinning fibers together to transform colors you’re unsure about into something you genuinely want to work with — rescuing them from long-term stash purgatory.

With multiple projects and a generous helping of articles, this issue invites you to slow down and really think about color — how it forms, how it blends, and how your choices at every stage affect the finished yarn. It’s a deep dive into hue, and a reminder that color is both science and art — and one of the most joyful parts of spinning.