Handspinning with Ellen Minard
Playing with Color on the Spinning Wheel
The Retreat Handspinning Session will feature this class with Ellen Minard:
Saturday all day and Sunday morning
Working with both hand painted and commercially dyed top, you will learn how to control the colors through blending, drafting, and plying. You can choose to create a vibrant colorful yarn, or more muted colors. This is a relaxed, fun, easy paced workshop, and you will end up with lots of little skeins to play with, and plenty of techniques to add to your arsenal!
Skill level: Advanced beginner, you must be able to spin a consistent yarn, and be able to ply.
Tools: You must bring a working wheel, with at least three empty bobbins.
If you have a mini niddy noddy, and/or hand carders, please bring them.
About Ellen Minard
Ellen Minard, of Ellen’s 1/2 Pint Farm, has been spinning, knitting and dyeing for 40 years. She travels to fiber festivals and knitting shows with her hand painted yarns, and has taught at many fiber festivals, guilds, yarn shops, CraftStudies, and Camp Stitches. “I love to knit and spin, but dyeing, and working with color, is my passion, and I love to share that passion with my students!”