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Wild and Crazy Weaving Debut

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I just listed the Wild and Crazy Weaving class on my website. I’ve been thinking about this awhile, but finally got it done just in time to advertise it at Lambtown coming up October 4-5. I met the creator of Art Fiber Frenzy yarns a couple of years ago at Black Sheep Gathering in Oregon. It turns out that she lives in Sacramento, not far from me, and she will be at Lambtown again this year.

When you closely at this yarn you will see that the random lengths of yarn are tied together. I don’t think the intent was to use this for warp, but that is all that I see. I have figured out the method to turn this into a warp.

The first step is to wind a ball.

This is a step where you don’t want to be sloppy. It was manageable, but not as fun to work with this yarn after my ball turned into many connected balls.

It’s the step of winding warp for which I have developed the best way to deal with the yarn–not just the knots, but all the yarns of different character.

And there is the consideration of sett and weft yarn.

Purchase a skein of yarn from Art Fiber Frenzy and sign up for my class to learn how to weave with it. I have listed one class to teach about a month after Lambtown but plan to teach other sessions of this next year.

Core Spinning with Rachel

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I convinced a friend that she should teach a new class at my place. We held a trial class to figure out the time frame and how many people we could accommodate. It was such a blast!

Teacher Rachel behind a table full of colorful fiber.

Rachel prepared a lot of fiber for the class. She dyed wool, mohair, and silk.

Glass jars full of colorful fiber on a shelf.

She also brought metallic fiber, miscellaneous yarns, and more silk to use for preparing batts.

Blue and green carded fiber with balls of white mohair ready for spinning.

We started the class by learning the basics of core spinning. Everyone was given the same fiber and core yarn.

Small skeins of blue-green core spun yarn with ball of fiber.

This is the variety of styles that were created from that fiber.

White fiber with blue accents ready for spinning.

After that we selected fiber and carded our own batts. I carded two batts with a base of white Jacob fiber and added lots of blue accents.

Handspun yarn core spun with a white base and blue and green accents.

These are the resulting core spun yarns.

Multi color corespun yarn and carded fiber ready for spinning.

Here are some of the batts and yarns that others prepared and spun during the class.

Two women, one wearing corespun yarn as a necklace, and the other expressing excitement over it.

Susan’s yarn matched her outfit perfectly and Rachel was pleased!

Seven women showing off the yarn they just spun after learning to core spin. Yarn is shown around the neck as a necklace.

We all decided to display our yarns by wearing them. This was a very fun class and I look forward to offering it in the fall. Subscribe to the newsletter to know when this will be offered.