Description

This package contains years worth of content, everything you need to take you from a beginner to an expert spinner. A total of 78 class sessions, each of approximately an hour, on a wide variety of spinning topics, as well as an enormous 123 recorded Office Hours sessions with Abby, community discussions on Discord, and once monthly live Office Hours.

Starting off with Spinning I-IV, you will be taken from never having spun anything, to planning for your first project. This content is designed to be worked on over 4 months (or longer if your project is very ambitious) giving you a really strong foundation not only in how to spin, but in why twist works the way it does and what sort of decisions you should be making to get a yarn that works perfectly for the job you intend it for. While this course is suitable for beginners, many experienced spinners have taken it and been surprised at how much it improves their understanding of working with twist. You don’t need any expensive equipment to get started here, just some fibre and a stick. Later class sessions discuss finding a spindle, spinning wheel, or e-spinner that is right for you.

Once you have completed these lessons, you’ll have all the pre-requisites and understand all the terminology you need to be able to move on to any of the other classes. For new spinners we recommend:

• Plying Structures
• Blended Fibres
• Drafting Methods

Once you have worked through these, just go where your interest takes you! We have classes available on:

• Comfort Spinning
• Luxury Fibres
• Advanced plying structures
• Mastering longdraw
• Mastering short draw
• Problem solving
• Spinning for large projects
• Spinning for socks
• Spinning with colour
• Spin Textured Yarns
• Make Textured Batts
• Colour and Texture
• Pimmie’s Tailed Yarn
• Organisation
• Tour of Louët
• Photography for fibre artists
• Spinning Flax
• Intro to cellulose
• Acadian cotton
• Cotton spinning
• Focus on Fleece
• Spindle Focus: Cops
• Drafting methods: Spinning from the fold
• Spindle Focus: Spindle Ergonomics
• Fibre Prep: Handcarding
• Spinning for Socks
• Teaching Spinning
• Andean backstrap check-in and spinning for weaving
• Spinning Thick
• Spinning Fine

Also available are several interviews with fibre artists and fibre business owners, and many hours of Office Hours with Abby answering all sorts of fibre-related questions.

Each class has its own dedicated channel on our private Discord server, allowing you to share your work with your classmates, go back and see the work of previous students, and ask any questions you may have.

This membership also gives you access to a once a month Office Hours session with Abby, live on Zoom, where you can ask any questions you have on the content, or anything else!