Spinning your own fancy and specialty yarns
with Jill Pettifer
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Learn how to create and design specialty effect yarns to add to your knitting, crochet or weaving. Learn through experimentation as well as technical insight!
This fun one day workshop will teach participants how to create a range of fancy and speciality yarns such as boucle, crepe, core, knop, marl, slub etc.
Blends and mixtures will be explored, unpacking the characteristics of the component fibres and yarns. Fibres and yarns will be studied and analysed.
Participants need to have some spinning experience.
PLEASE BRING:
DATE: Saturday 3 August 2019
TIME: 10.00am - 4.30pm
MATERIALS: $10 payable to the tutor on the day
FEE: $100 (CSW members) / $120 (non members)
Please bring your own lunch. Coffee and tea provided
Enquiries to: csw.workshops@gmail.com
This fun one day workshop will teach participants how to create a range of fancy and speciality yarns such as boucle, crepe, core, knop, marl, slub etc.
Blends and mixtures will be explored, unpacking the characteristics of the component fibres and yarns. Fibres and yarns will be studied and analysed.
Participants need to have some spinning experience.
PLEASE BRING:
- already single spun yarn (details will be provided), 3 small containers to hold balls,
- fabric off-cuts (2 hand fulls), unusual fibres you may have in your stash,
- any interesting yarns you may have to analyse,
- lazy Kate, Niddy Noddy, hand carders, comb, scissors, flicker (optional),
- pen&paper
- your own spinning wheel with extra bobbins
DATE: Saturday 3 August 2019
TIME: 10.00am - 4.30pm
MATERIALS: $10 payable to the tutor on the day
FEE: $100 (CSW members) / $120 (non members)
Please bring your own lunch. Coffee and tea provided
Enquiries to: csw.workshops@gmail.com