Card and Spin ! Saturday 21st Feb

Learn to card and spin fibres to create your own beautiful yarn.

In this fun, interactive workshop participants will learn how to use hand carders and a drum carder to prepare fibres ready for spinning. Next spinning on drop spindles and on a spinning wheel will be demonstrated and participants will then practise spinning yarn on the drop spindles provided and learn to use the spinning wheel. Do bring along your own functioning spinning wheel if you have one. Suitable for complete beginners and learners. A range of fibres from plants to animal will be available for participants to try, and you will take home your own hand-spun yarn at the end of the session. Learn to card and spin fibres to create your own beautiful yarn.

General information.

In this workshop participants will learn how to card fleece to prepare it for spinning, then learn the basics of spinning on a drop spindle and a spinning wheel.

3 hours long, either 10-1 or 2-5pm. £50 per person, 5 maximum.

Chris will provide hand carders, a range of fibres, drop spindles and my drum carder plus spinning wheel. People can also bring their own functioning spinning wheels. Participants take their hand-spun yarn home with them.

Itinerary

Show people how to card using hand carders and the drum carder followed by a hands-on practice session.

Discussion (using examples) of the different types of fibre that can be spun and their uses.

Demonstration of spinning with a drop spindle and with a spinning wheel.

People spend the rest of the time practising carding and spinning.