Fleece to Fiber

Have you always wanted to prepare fiber from the raw fleece?  Or wondered all the available fiber preparations mean and how they get that way?  You will learn how it is done with Margaret in this class.  Look at various breeds and fiber types, skirt a freshly sheered fleece, learn how to wash it, and come back the next week and card, comb, flick and drum card your fluff.  This is a great class for any fiber enthusiast. Felters & weavers, come join!  No spinning will be done in the class.
Materials list at sign up.  Participants split the cost of the fleece on first day ($8 max).
Sundays, Feb 13 & 20, one 1 hour class, one 3 hour class.  Both start at 11:30AM
Cost $35. Margaret Magic

Crochet: Beginning Crochet

Debbie does a great job helping people learn crochet.  Whether you are completely new to it or need a refresher, she can help you make stuff with string!  Project will be a sampler scarf to learn the basic crochet stitches and techniques.  
Bring a ball of yarn, light colored Cascade 220 or some such and an “H” hook, or get help at the shop before class starts.  10% student discount applies.
Thursday Feb. 10 & 17, 5:30 to 7:30PM.  $35.  Debbie Carpenter.

Knitting: Reading a Pattern

Not always so easy, eh?  Do you ever flounder when you want to start a project?  Learn how to choose your yarn and pattern, and how to decipher the knitted abbreviations that seem to vary so much.  Discuss substitutions and variables, yarn types, reading labels, stitch guide and swatch measuring.  Do a pattern “read-thru” and learn about errata and where to find?  Adapt your handspun?  Yes!
Sunday Feb.13, 1 to 2PM.  $8.  Margaret Magic.

Novelty Yarns Series: Boucle

Come and learn more about novelty yarn technique with Heather.  Boucle means "to curl or buckle," and this yarn does this by way of it's irregular structure.  It is the means by which yarn gets loops and bumps.  (Your big opportunity to come to the yarn shop, get loopy and no one will have to call a cab for you to get home!)
Bring your basic spinning skills and a wheel and have fun!  Heather will provide materials (clean mohair and wensleydale locks and binder thread) to spin, included in fee. If you really want to use your own, fee drops $10.
Wednesday, Feb. 9, 4PM to 6PM.  $30.  Heather Seevers.

Novelty Yarn Series: Spinning Thick and Thin

This class is a great opportunity for the spinner to explore (or revisit?) irregular yarn.  That lovely chunky stuff you look wistfully at a new spinner turning out?  Heather will guide you through making it with control and show you how it is the technique at the root of noils, wraps and all sorts of fun novelty yarns!
You will need to bring your basic spinning skills, a wheel and some prepared roving.  If you need supplies, you'll get a 10% discount as a student.  If you need to arrange to use a shop wheel for the class, let us know when you sign up.  Don't forget your sense of humor!
Saturday, Feb.5th.  11AM to 1 PM.  $20.  Heather Seevers, teacher extraordinaire.

Spinning: Drop Spindle Class

Want to learn an age-old fun and portable way of making your own yarn?  Learn to spin using this historical, inexpensive devise – used worldwide!  You will learn to spin using the “park-and-draft” method, ply your own handspun and make a skein of it in the end.  Margaret will show you the tricks of making a center-pull ball to work from, too.
Bring your curiosity.  Drop spindle and fiber can be purchased with 10% student discount.  Ask staff for assistance when you sign up.
Sunday, Feb. 6, 11AM to 1:30PM.  $20.  Margaret Magic.

Novelty Yarn Series: Spinning Thick and Thin

This class is a great opportunity for the spinner to explore (or revisit?) irregular yarn.  That lovely chunky stuff you look wistfully at a new spinner turning out?  Heather will guide you through making it with control and show you how it is the technique at the root of noils, wraps and all sorts of fun novelty yarns!
You will need to bring your basic spinning skills, a wheel and some prepared roving.  If you need supplies, you'll get a 10% discount as a student.  If you need to arrange to use a shop wheel for the class, let us know when you sign up.  Don't forget your sense of humor!
Saturday, Feb.5th.  11AM to 1 PM.  $20.  Heather Seevers, teacher extraordinaire.

Classes next week

Novelty Yarn Series: Spinning Thick and Thin

This class is a great opportunity for the spinner to explore (or revisit?) irregular yarn.  That lovely chunky stuff you look wistfully at a new spinner turning out?  Heather will guide you through making it with control and show you how it is the technique at the root of noils, wraps and all sorts of fun novelty yarns!
You will need to bring your basic spinning skills, a wheel and some prepared roving.  If you need supplies, you'll get a 10% discount as a student.  If you need to arrange to use a shop wheel for the class, let us know when you sign up.  Don't forget your sense of humor!
Saturday, Feb.5th.  11AM to 1 PM.  $20.  Heather Seevers, teacher extraordinaire.

Spinning: Drop Spindle Class
Want to learn an age-old fun and portable way of making your own yarn?  Learn to spin using this historical, inexpensive devise – used worldwide!  You will learn to spin using the “park-and-draft” method, ply your own handspun and make a skein of it in the end.  Margaret will show you the tricks of making a center-pull ball to work from, too.
Bring your curiosity.  Drop spindle and fiber can be purchased with 10% student discount.  Ask staff for assistance when you sign up.
Sunday, Feb. 6, 11AM to 1:30PM.  $20.  Margaret Magic.

Novelty Yarn Series: Boucle

Come an learn more about novelty yarn technique with Heather.  Boucle means "to curl or buckle," and this yarn does this by way of it's irregular structure.  It is the means by which yarn gets loops and bumps.  (Your big opportunity to come to the yarn shop, get loopy and no one will have to call a cab for you to get home!)

Novelty Yarn Series: Spinning Thick and Thin

This class is a great opportunity for the spinner to explore (or revisit?) irregular yarn.  That lovely chunky stuff you look wistfully at a new spinner turning out?  Heather will guide you through making it with control and show you how it is the technique at the root of noils, wraps and all sorts of fun novelty yarns!

You will need to bring your basic spinning skills, a wheel and some prepared roving.  If you need supplies, you'll get a 10% discount as a student.  If you need to arange to use a shop wheel for the class, let us know when you sign up.  Don't forget your sence of humor!

Saturday, Feb.5th.  11AM to 1 PM.  $20

Exclusive at NW Handspun Yarns- Spincycle handspun yarns

Just in case you hadn't heard, We are the fortunate folks who get to fondle the entire line of Spincycle yarns, exclusively in Bellingham.

Stop in soon to check them all out.

Spincycle Gallery of Yarns

 

Happy 2011!

2011!  What a pleasing number to welcome in!  I think I'm in love with it already.  It might have been the way it glanced it's lightful eyes into the room the first morning, perhaps it was that first check I wrote with no hesitation or correction necessary like usual: 1.2.11.  Can you complain about a number sequence like that?
I am loving being in the pilot's house of NW Handspun Yarns.  I feel like I am steering a giant community touchpoint through a sea of fiberlives.  It is just plain fun -- and a lot of work!  We are pulling together our class and events schedule for the new year as I write, updating the website and generally trying to get to the things we have woefully neglected in the busy fall.  So more plans a-coming.  I am looking forward to a great your with you all!

stay calm, be brave, wait for the sign......
meg