Spinning for a Project: Evaluating and Planning a Yarn with Jillian Moreno
About Spinning for a Project: Evaluating and Planning a Yarn with Jillian Moreno
How do you spin a yarn for a specific project? The key is knowing what you want and how to get there, and learning to love (or at least appreciate) sampling. In this class we’ll discuss and explore how each decision in the spinning process affects your finished yarn and your finished project. A few of the things we’ll discuss are: • How to evaluate a knitting pattern in order to build a handspun yarn • How to assess a commercial yarn to spin a match or make a better yarn • Making informed choices about your project yarn • How to evaluate your yarn • The elements of successful sampling • How to sample quickly Note: This isn’t a hands-on spinning class, it’s more of a planning to spin class. You can absolutely spin whatever you’d like during this class, while you listen and watch me work through my process of planning and spinning intentionally for a project.
Supplies, Equipment & Materials Needed for Class
• A pattern that you’d like to spin and knit
• The basic details of your default yarn (fiber, draft, finished size, ply, finish)
• Note taking materials
• All of your questions!
Materials Kit
No materials kit for this class.
Pre-class Homework
Please choose a pattern you’d like to spin and knit, and print it out for class
Skill Level
Curious advanced beginner. Student should be able to spin a singles and ply a yarn.
Contact the Teacher
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When
2-hour live online session.
Enrolled students receive 30-day access to the video recording of the class.
How It Works
Register and enroll above. Enrollment is not complete until payment is made on the next page, by credit card or Paypal via our secure platform. Enrolled students will receive an immediate email confirmation of enrollment, and on the day before the seminar, a reminder with Zoom link to join the class via email. Students will also be able to join the Zoom sessions from their Lessonface dashboard. Students can connect to Zoom using a tablet or computer with reliable internet. To actively participate online students also need a webcam with microphone.
Jillian Moreno
Jillian Moreno, author of Yarnitecture: A Knitter’s Guide to Spinning: Building Exactly the Yarn You Want, can’t stop writing and teaching about spinning and using handspun to knit, weave and stitch. She explores, questions and plays and wants to take as many people as possible along for the ride.
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Lessonface's mission is to help students achieve their goals while treating teachers equitably. Since 2012, we've hosted more than 30,000 students and 2,000 teachers for over 500,000 music, language, and arts lessons and classes online. We've hosted the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival's virtual fiber arts seminars since 2021, and are very happy to be hosting these seminars for the sixth annual Winterfest January 30-31, 2027.