Your Default Yarn Is Your Spinning Super Power

Jillian Moreno

Sunday AM

Your everyday spin is the yarn you make without thinking about it, your preferred prep and draft, resulting in your favorite yarn. It’s the yarn equivalent of your favorite jammies.

Some people call this spin a rut, but it’s actually the key to spinning any yarn you want to spin.

In this class we’re going to examine your go-to yarn in detail from fiber, wheel set-up, prep, draft, ply, size, to finish. Your default yarn is the intersection of intention and intuitive spinning.

Once you know all of the details that go into building your favorite yarn, you’ll be ready to tackle almost any yarn for any project. Through detailed examination we’ll see how each aspect of spinning affects yarn, and in the end your project. We’ll learn how to make choices and shift techniques to consistently create the yarns that pair perfectly with the projects you have in mind.

Any yarn is within your reach, once you know all about your everyday yarn.

Skill Level:

If you can spin a continuous thread and have made a 2-ply yarn this class is for you.

Material fee: $20

A variety of fibers and preparations, including fibers dyed by independent dyers. Students receive enough fiber for class and to practice skills at home after the class.

Moreno Default Yarn

Student Supplies:

A wheel in good working order that you have used recently, 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.

Homework: None