Parallel Drafting: Blending Color at the Wheel with Jillian Moreno
About Parallel Drafting: Blending Color at the Wheel with Jillian Moreno
Parallel drafting is one of my favorite color spinning techniques, there are so many exciting options! It allows you to blend and mix colors without dye and tools beyond your wheel and hands. Together we’ll learn the basics of parallel drafting with solid colors, including lots of tips to keep fibers together and orderly. We’ll work with solid colors and braids, shifting the value and mood of colors, and making multicolored braids more unified. We’ll see how ply change the look of parallel drafted yarns, by making singles, 2-ply, and 3-ply yarns. For extra fun, we’ll parallel draft intermittently and compare parallel drafted and plied yarns to standard drafted and plied yarns and see what happens when we combine the two. Parallel drafting is versatile and exciting, after this class your stash will look limitless!
Supplies, Equipment & Materials Needed for Class
• A wheel in good working order
• Regular spinning supplies (you will ply)
• 3-4 bobbins
• Fiber:
◦ Bits of fiber, partial braids and some solid colors
◦ White fiber
◦ Either grey or dark brown fiber to mix with the braids and solids
Materials Kit
No materials kit for this class.
Pre-class Homework
No homework prior to class.
Skill Level
Curious advanced beginner. Student should be able to spin a singles and ply a yarn.
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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
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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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