Spinning with Jillian Moreno: Woolen Spinning — Explore Preparation and Draft — April 2025
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Spinning with Jillian Moreno: Woolen Spinning — Explore Preparation and Draft
Teacher: Jillian Moreno
Cost: $125
When: Sunday, April 6, 9:00am–12:00pm
Description: Are you interested in spinning a lofty, cozy, woolen-spun yarn? This class takes you from woolen preparation to finish. With Jillian Moreno’s expert guidance, you’ll spin several woolen and woolen-ish preparations, roving, sliver, rolags, batts, and spinning top from the fold. You’ll see how they all spin with different amounts of loft, and spinning them side by side will help you fine-tune your woolen yarns. You’ll have the opportunity to practice woolen drafting from short forward and backward drafts to longdraw, keeping an eye on drafting zones and twist to manage size and consistency. Along the way, Jillian will take you on a deep dive into different breeds and blends so you can determine which ones like to spin airy. Once you have woolen singles spun, you’ll ply, woolen-style, and see how adjustments for consistency can be made to woolen yarns when plying. Class will end with a bit of finishing talk, comparing different methods to make your yarns bloom.
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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