Don’t Let Your Yarn Weight You Down: Gist of Grist with Jillian Moreno

About Don’t Let Your Yarn Weight You Down: Gist of Grist with Jillian Moreno

Grist is a mystery to some spinners. Some spinners think that grist is one of the secret clubs of the spinning world; if you don’t know the secret handshake of YPP (Yards Per Pound) then you’re out of luck. This class will show you that thinking is a big fat lie!
Grist is just the density of your yarn. It’s a simple concept that once you learn it and apply it to your spinning can change how you look at and feel about your yarn.

In this class we’ll learn what grist is and how to wield its spinning power in the easiest way, by sampling. We’ll explore:

• What grist means to your yarn and knitting

• How grist can keep you from running out of yarn for a project

• How and when to measure grist

• What affects grist

• How to change grist

• How to use grist to match an existing yarn, handspun or millspun

Learning all about grist will answer so many questions about your yarn!

Materials, Equipment, and Supplies the Student Must Bring to Class

A wheel in good working order, 3-4 bobbins, a lazy kate, a niddy noddy, tags to mark samples, and pen and paper to take notes. Please bring any other spinning tools you like to use.

Materials Fee (to be paid directly to the instructor) and Kit Description

$25 - includes a variety of fibers, breeds, and preparations, including fibers dyed by independent dyers. Students receive enough fiber for class and to practice skills at home after the class. Small tools, and measuring equipment will be available for use during class.

Pre-class Homework

None

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Skill Level

Advanced Beginner

$85.00
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When

Single 3-hour live in-person seminar.

Class Location

Fairgrounds – 4H Hall

May
1st
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT
Don’t Let Your Yarn Weight You Down: Gist of Grist with Jillian Moreno
Jillian Moreno

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Jillian Moreno

    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. She explores, questions, and plays with fiber and wants to take as many people as possible along for the ride.

    She believes all yarn is beautiful and useful and enthusiastically encourages her students to feel joy making and using their handspun.

    Jillian believes in making yarn you like and want to use; she throws “must” and “should” out the window, though does enjoy the fun that comes from answering questions with “it depends”.

    Combining technical and intuitive approaches to spinning, her students gain confidence as well as solid skills to build any yarn they can dream of. In her classes Jillian shows there is never only one way to make a yarn. Knowing and seeing the outcomes of a variety of spinning skills frees students to build unique and useful yarns to use with any project they have in mind.

    In her classes Jillian’s 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.

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