Leader: Jane Bynum
2 Saturdays: August 3, 2019 – 1:30-3:30 pm & August 17, 2019 – 1:00-3:00 pm
Materials fee $20 for fiber, material for brake bands, and drive bands
Class limited to 6
Registration deadline: Thursday, July 27, 2019
Enter the technical side of spinning via the back door and learn enough to decide what you want to embrace and what you want to ignore. We’ll start with a wheel tune-up and discuss selecting wheels and optimizing them for various types of spinning. We will move into a discussion of how fiber type, fiber prep, and drafting techniques interact to produce different yarns. The second session will focus on yarn design and plying – basic techniques and more complex structures. There will be plenty of time for questions and dealing with specific issues.
Students must be able to spin a continuous yarn on some device.
Students should bring:
- A complete wheel in working order
- Oil if their wheel needs it
- Extra parts for the wheel if they have them
- At least three bobbins or storage bobbins and a way to wind off quickly
- Lazy Kate – home made shoe box version is fine; not needed until second session
- Hand cards and hand combs if they have them; instructor will have some available