The Long and Short of Spinning: From Woolen to Worsted

Start date: October 29, 2023
End date: November 3, 2023
All-day event
Location: Spin-Off Autumn Retreat, Embassy Suites, Loveland, CO
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2-day Intensive

Explore drafting techniques and fiber preparations that cover the range from the smoothest worsted to the loftiest woollen yarns. One extreme creates firm, hard-wearing yarns with crisp definition, and the other maximizes softness and warmth (and feels like magic to spin!). This skill-builder class covers four drafts—short-worsted draw to woollen long draw and two in-between drafts—plus carding and combing techniques to go with them. We’ll spin them all and examine the appropriate fibers, preparations, and yarn characteristics for each.

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