Turning Fiber Into Yarn: The Art Of Spinning
with David Keller
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- 10+ Video lessons in HD
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- 30-day access to instructor
- Over 10 hours of in-depth instructions
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What you will learn:
- Spinning Fundamentals
- Intro to Spinning
- Why Spinning
- Plying
- Drop Spinning;
- Spinning singles
- Chain plying on the fly
- Felting yarn
- Steaming yarn
- Finishing a yarn
- Foaling yarn
- Brushing
- Wheel fundamentals
- How to choose/buy a wheel
- Washed locks
- Drum carding
- Art Batts
- Gradients
- Fiber Fractals
- Crazy Colors
- Natural Fibers
- Blending Boards
- Natural Colors
- Color Deconstruction
- Fractal Spinning
- Rolags
- Drafting Techniques
- Core Spinning
- Super coils
- Standard Plying
- Core Plying
- Beehives
- Crape Yarns
- Boucle
- Insertions
- Troubleshooting
- Production Hand Spinning
- Tail Spinning
Other Fiber Art Classes:
Basic Fiber and Yarn Dyeing Class- With David Keller
Advanced Fiber Dyeing Class- With David Keller
Introduction to Needle Felting- With Shahar Boyayan
About the course
Spinning is a hypnotic, meditative activity that will bring you hours of joy. Plus the result yarn will be unique and exquisite. This course will show you how to do it! Yarn has been spun on spindles for thousands of years.
Open Facebook Group to students of this course:
Arts & Crafts | Curious Mondo: How to Dye Yarn and Fibers
Time table:
9 hours
Level:
Basic / Intermediate / Advanced
Target market:
Fiber Artists, wool aficionados, knitters, spinners, weavers, anyone who loves fibers or want to start a new hobby or career
Main objective:
Learn how to turn fiber into yarn
Prerequisite:
None
About the instructor
David Keller is 33 years old and has been doing fiber arts of some kind for the last 25 years off and on. For the last 5 years David has been running a fiber and yarn dye shop in Salt Lake City specializing in wool yarns and fibers. He has one son, a Yorkie fur baby, and likes to take hot baths. His hobbies include hand spinning, video games, thought experiments, rock climbing, unicycling, sport shooting, and rating movies.
