2024 Spinning – Beyond Basics with Deb McGuire
Location
Canberra Spinners and Weavers at Textile Works
About
Step beyond the beginner level to build on your basic skills to produce a good product. The course involves plying techniques and using different fibres. This course will help you raise your spinning abilities to a higher level, and help control your production to make a yarn desirable for a particular project.
Participants need to have completed an introductory spinning class. Participants must bring their own wheel.
PARTICIPANTS BRING:
* own wheels with several empty bobbins
* lazy Kate
* flicker brush / carders
* a leather or vinyl rectangle to place on lap for protection
* sheep fleece still in staples
* commercial tops/roving in various colours.
* spun single on bobbins ready for plying.
* a Silk Cap/hanky fibre for spinning (tutor will have some for purchase)
* scissors
* scraps for scrap yarn spinning, eg. commercial wool ends, metallic threads, sewing threads, feathers
Participants need to have completed an introductory spinning class. Participants must bring their own wheel.
PARTICIPANTS BRING:
* own wheels with several empty bobbins
* lazy Kate
* flicker brush / carders
* a leather or vinyl rectangle to place on lap for protection
* sheep fleece still in staples
* commercial tops/roving in various colours.
* spun single on bobbins ready for plying.
* a Silk Cap/hanky fibre for spinning (tutor will have some for purchase)
* scissors
* scraps for scrap yarn spinning, eg. commercial wool ends, metallic threads, sewing threads, feathers
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