Spin your yarn stash! Instant Gratification, Stash Busting, and Yarn Refreshment ~ June 18th, 7pm to 9pm

Spin your yarn stash! Instant Gratification, Stash Busting, and Yarn Refreshment!

Instructor: Ikumi Kayama

Do you have yarn in your stash that needs refreshing? 

Buying yarn is the fun part. It’s full of potential. Then life happens. The yarn sits in your stash, looking at you from time to time. Let’s give it a glow-up! 

This is a hands-on class where students bring their own yarn (or purchase new yarn) and disassemble/reassemble it to give it another life. Yarn can be short, long, bulky, fine…anything works!

Do you have yarn that is too splitty? Do you have yarn that pills when you look at it? Give it more twist so it holds better. Do you notice that the yarn untwists as you work? Spin it in a different direction! Is the yarn too thin? Ply the strands together! Do you want more pizzazz? Add some glitz and beads!

We will reassemble your stashed yarn into different types of finished yarn. We will talk about how to add/remove twist using a drop spindle or a wheel.

Prior experience:

This class is for all fiber artists who have a yarn stash. If you are using a Sweet Pea Fiber shop wheel you must have some prior experience with spinning wheels.

What to bring: 

• About 4 ounces from your yarn stash~ the yarn should be wound to center-pull balls
• your favorite spinning tool—spindle or wheel (all types welcome. If you plan to borrow a wheel from the store you must contact us before class) 
  
• a bowl (to contain your yarn and thread)
• scissors
• scrap cotton yarn 
  
  

Provided by Sweet Pea Fiber: 

• Cotton sewing thread (a few colors and values), seed beads (I like 6/0 and 8/0 in any color), needle to thread beads