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JillianEve Fiber Art

Core Spinning Workshop - Digital Download

Core Spinning Workshop - Digital Download

$50.00 USD
$50.00 USD
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This digital workshop is a download that includes a 16 page PDF workbook and a link to a recorded video workshop where Evie will demonstrate various techniques she uses to core spin gorgeous, textured yarns.

Follow along in the workbook and gain the understanding and confidence to core spin lofty and textured yarn. The workbook includes:

  • Choosing a Core
  • Preparing the Core
  • Ratios and Speeds
  • Why Core Spin?
  • Holding the Core
  • Drafting Onto The Core
  • Giving it Texture
  • Clockwise vs. Counter-Clockwise
  • Managing the Core's Twist
  • Securing Slippery or Hard to Manage Fiber
  • Finishing your Core Spun Yarn
  • Keeping it Smooth
  • Using your Core Spun Yarn
  • Notes and Discoveries

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A note from Evie

If you have ever spent time drooling over those amazing textured yarns on Instagram or wondered how weavers get those bulky yarns for beautiful wall hangings, then you will love core spinning because by the end of this course, you will be creating your own amazing core spun yarns too!

Core spun yarns can look very dramatic and complex, but once you've mastered the fundamentals of core spinning, you will have endless colors, textures, and fibers to explore.

While core spinning can be done with "standard" orifice sizes, having larger openings for your textured yarn to pass through is useful and allows a greater diameter of yarn to be spun. In this workshop I will demonstrate core spinning mostly on an Ashford treadle powered spinning wheel with a bulky flyer set up, but you can also core spin using an e-wheel or a spindle.

Textured yarns are best spun with a relaxed and fun attitude toward the process. The imperfections, bumps, slubs, and unexpected lumps are what make textured core spun yarns uniquely beautiful. Have fun with the process and love the yarn you spin for all the character you spin into it.

Happy spinning!

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  • Two bobbins of yarn, side by side. The yarn on the left is thick with inconsistent high twist corkscrews. The yarn on the right is thinner with consistent thickness and twist.

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    "Just wanted to give a shout out to Evie of JillianEve and thank you for helping me be able to make the yarn I want to make through your Patreon self study spinning course. Here are before and after photos." ~Courtney

Spinning Tutorials

If you are looking for project inspiration and free spinning tutorials, check out the JillianEve YouTube channel. New videos are uploaded weekly!