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Spinning with Jillian Moreno: Hand Carding — Basics and Beyond
Teacher: Jillian Moreno
Cost: $125
When: Sunday, July 19, 9:00am–12:00pm
Description: Curious about carding? Hand cards are usually the first fiber preparation tool that spinners use, and they’re more versatile than you might think! In this class we’ll learn the basics of hand carding with different fibers and blends. We’ll card both washed fleece and commercially prepared fiber. We’ll also experiment with how to roll fiber off your hand cards, and why you may not want to. And of course we’ll play with color! There will be heathers, tweeds, stripes, and more! This relaxed class will start you on a path to preparing your own fiber for spinning.
Prerequisites: This class is suitable for a beginning hard carder, but more experienced spinners will learn things too.
Homework: None
Min/max number of participants: 4/12
Materials to bring along:
- Hand cards (coming soon to Spun! we’ll notify participants via email when they arrive!) Instructor will also have a few extras to try.
- Wheel or spindle to sample your preparations
- Tags to mark samples
- Pen and paper to take notes
- Any other spinning tools you like to use
- $25 materials fee, payable to Jillian (cash, check or Venmo/Paypal)
- Fiber will be provided by Jillian
Jillian Moreno is the author of the best-selling book Yarnitecture: A Knitter’s Guide to Spinning: Building Exactly the Yarn You Want. She is passionate about investigating the structure of yarn and color, and using them in intentional ways in knitting, stitching and weaving. In her classes, students play and experiment with fibers and color, gain an enthusiasm for sampling, and come to see that their own definition of beautiful, consistent, or perfect yarn is the only one that matters. Combining technical and intuitive approaches to spinning, Jillian’s students gain confidence as well as solid skills to build any yarn they can dream of.
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