Description

Spinning with Jillian Moreno: Parallel Drafting Blending Color at the Wheel

Teacher: Jillian Moreno

Cost: $125

When: Sunday, May 31, 9:00am12:00pm

Description: Parallel drafting is one of Jillians favorite color spinning techniques: there are so many exciting options! This method allows you to blend and mix colors without dye, just using your wheel and hands. In this workshop youll learn the basics of parallel drafting, including lots of tips to keep fibers together and orderly. Well work with solid colors and braids, shifting the value and mood of colors, and making multicolored braids more unified. Well see how ply changes the look of parallel drafted yarns by making singles, 2-ply, and 3-ply yarns. For extra fun, well parallel draft intermittently with color, silk, and sparkle. Parallel drafting is versatile and exciting. After this class your stash will look limitless!

Prerequisites: Advanced beginner. Students should be able to independently spin singles and make a 2-ply yarn.

Homework: None

Min/max number of participants: 4/12

Materials to bring along:

• A wheel in good working order (i.e,. you have spun on it recently)
• 4 bobbins
• A niddy noddy
• Tags to mark samples
• Baggies for fiber
• Pen and paper to take notes
• Any other spinning tools you like to use
• $25 materials fee, payable to Jillian (cash, check or Venmo/Paypal)
• Fiber will be provided by Jillian

Jillian Moreno is the author of the best-selling book Yarnitecture: A Knitters 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. In her classes, 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. Combining technical and intuitive approaches to spinning, Jillians students gain confidence as well as solid skills to build any yarn they can dream of.