Woolen Spinning from Prep to Finish with Jillian Moreno

About Woolen Spinning from Prep to Finish with Jillian Moreno

Get the air in there! Interested in spinning a lofty, cozy woolen yarn? This class takes you from woolen preparation to finish.
We will spin several woolen and woolen-ish preparations, roving, sliver, rolags, batts, and spinning top from the fold. They all spin with different amounts of loft, and spinning them side by side will help you fine-tune your woolen yarns.

We’ll practice woolen drafting from short forward and backward drafts to longdraw, keeping an eye on drafting zones and twist to manage size and consistency.

We’ll compare different breeds and blends to see and feel which ones like to spin airy.

Once we have woolen singles spun, we’ll ply, woolen-style, and see how adjustments for consistency can be made to woolen yarns when plying.

Our class will end with a bit of finishing, comparing different methods to make our yarns bloom.

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.

Bring a set a hand cards if you like to use them. They are not required for the class.

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

$35 - 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
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
Woolen Spinning from Prep to Finish 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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