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Yarn Exploration
IN PERSON WORKSHOP
Date: October 9, 2024
Instructor: Penny Lacroix
Workshop Description: Yarn is the basis of weaving. Weavers need to understand the characteristics of the yarns to understand how to combine yarns to create a textile. In this hands-on explorative class, students will learn together. Everyone will go home with an extensive set of completed worksheets. Some topics to be covered include tools for yarn exploration, fiber content identification, weight/grist, structure, strength, and elasticity.
 
Materials: Students are expected to bring these items to class.
• Pencil and eraser
• Stapler and clear tape
• Stiff plastic or wooden ruler (6”-12”)
• A Tape Measure
• Scissors
• A copy of the Master Yarn Chart:  https://handwovenmagazine.com/master-yarn-chart/
• 3-5 different yarns, at least 4 yards of each, along with anything you know about the yarns. (Copy label information, if available, onto a piece of paper to keep with unpackaged yarns.) These could be coned or skeined commercial weaving yarns from your stash, handspun yarns, or specialty yarns. These will be shared with everyone in the workshop.
If you have these things, please bring them for sharing (name ID)
• Protractor (for measuring angles)
• A Pick Glass or magnifying glass
• McMorran balance
• Wrap gauge
 
Materials/Handouts Fee: $15
Attendee Limit: 15
 
Instructor Bio: Penny is a weaver, spinner, teacher, historian, manager, learner, creator, and general lover of all things fiber. When she’s not actively learning something, she’s sharing with others in one way or another – making something by hand, demonstrating at historic events, or teaching a class. With past careers as an engineer, a mom, a museum educator, and a museum director, combined with her hobby as a historical reenactor, her worlds interweave in creating textiles and studying historic textile tools. Penny is active in the Nashoba Valley Weavers’ Guild, the Weavers’ Guild of Boston, and the Boston Area Spinners and Dyers. She teaches weaving and spinning locally and on Zoom. She lives in Westford, MA, with her husband and their furry friends.

Yarn Exploration

$30.00Price
Only 4 left in stock

  • In-person workshop at the October meeting.  

    10am - 12 noon

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