Spinning with Jillian Moreno: Mix It Up — The Basics of Combining Color with Braids — January 2025
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Spinning with Jillian Moreno: Mix It Up — The Basics of Combining Color with Braids
Teacher: Jillian Moreno
Cost: $125
When: Sunday, January 12, 9:00am–12:00pm
Description: This class focuses on the fun of mixing and blending painted braids with other colors and other braids at the wheel, no other tools or dye needed. We’ll explore how to choose colors that go together, what affects color in spinning, and how to avoid mud in your yarn. You’ll learn how to mix and blend colors in the ply and draft, and how to choose fibers that work well together. You’ll also have the opportunity to look at a lot of swatches and examine more closely how the colors in each method look from fiber, to yarn, to cloth.
While you practice your mixing and blending, Jillian will show you how to choose colors to turn up or turn down the brightness of a braid and the best way to stretch braids for projects. Finally, she’ll show you how to sample to learn the most about spinning braids for color, and how to use those samples as shortcuts for your future braid spinning.
Prerequisites: If you can spin a continuous thread and have made a 2-ply yarn, even one time, this class is for you!
Homework: None
Min/max number of participants: 4/12
Materials to bring along:
- A wheel in good working order (i.e. you have spun on it recently)
- At least 3 bobbins
- Lazy kate
- Niddy noddy
- Tags to mark samples
- Pen and paper to take notes
- $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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