Unraveling Designer Yarns 

1/2 day

Recreating a novelty style yarn can be frustrating unless you understand the fundamentals of yarn structure.

This class will help you to dissect and decode a number of plain and fancy yarns to see the twist, size and variety of plies used in the construction of each yarn.

Each student will receive Patsy's original yarn decoder to examin yarns in class.

Using a method of shorthand we will record the number of twists and plies so the yarns can be spun later at home.

Available Workshops

• Blending Basics & Recipes 
• Blending & Spinning Lavish Luxury Yarns 
• Beautiful Bouclés 
• Cellulose Fibers - Old & New, Long & Short 
• Color Options for Spinners 
• Cotton the Last Great Frontier 
• Dealing with Downy Fibers 
• Fine Spinning 
• Five Quick Novelty Yarns 
• Flax Challenge 
• High Tech Fibers 
• Luxury American Fibers 
• Marvelous Mohair 
• S+Z=Infinity, Designer Yarns 
• Silk the Queen of Fibers 
• Silk, Silk, Silk 
• Unraveling Designer Yarns 
• Woolen & Worsted 
• Wool Spinners Tune-Up 

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