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Spinning with Jillian Moreno: Twist — Exploring Consistency and Size
Teacher: Jillian Moreno
Cost: $125
When: Sunday, October 19, 9:00am–12:00pm
Description: Spinning a consistent yarn and changing yarn sizes are two skills that most spinners want to learn. The key to polishing your skills for both is learning to control twist. Twist is the heart of spinning: it’s what shapes fiber into yarn. Learning to manipulate twist is the key to creating a yarn that’s a consistent thickness, no matter the size. Keeping a yarn consistent through a spin is a matter of tracking your yarn. In this class we’ll explore wheel set-up, spinner’s control cards, ply back samples, grist, drafting zones, keeping track of your yarn, and how and why to control the amount of twist in your yarns. You’ll learn methods of changing the size of your yarn from lace to super bulky, and gain skills to keep your yarn consistent through a single braid or a whole project.
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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