Guild Members!
It is with great pleasure that we announce Jillian Moreno, author of Yarnitecture: A Knitter’s Guide to Spinning: Building Exactly the Yarn You Want, will be joining us on Saturday, March 15th at the Rush United Methodist Church!
Jillian will present Parallel Drafting: You’ll Never Look at Your Stash the Same Way Again. She will speak about her history with parallel drafting, demonstrate the technique, and then guild members will all practice parallel drafting together in a giant spin in!
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Parallel drafting is a technique that allows you to blend colors at the wheel with no other tools. It allows you to create new colors, and to manipulate the value of solid colors and hand painted braids. Not only will it help you transform your stash, stretching what you have, and changing a blah braid to something you can’t wait to spin, it will help you overcome any hesitation you have about working with, combining, and manipulating colors. Best of all it’s fun and will keep you spinning through your whole stash!
This is a free event open to all! Current Members should watch your email for an RSVP.
Biography
Jillian Moreno is the author of the best-selling book Yarnitecture: A Knitter’s Guide to Spinning: Building Exactly the Yarn You Want. She is passionate about investigating the structure of yarn and color, and using them in intentional ways in knitting, stitching and weaving.
She explores, questions and plays with fiber and wants to take as many people as possible along for the ride. She believes all yarn is beautiful and useful and enthusiastically encourages her students to feel joy making and using their handspun. Jillian believes in making yarn you like and want to use, she throws ‘must’ and ‘should’ out the window, though does enjoy the fun that comes from answering questions with ‘it depends’.
Combining technical and intuitive approaches to spinning, her students gain confidence as well as solid skills to build any yarn they can dream of. In her classes Jillian shows there is never only one way to make a yarn. Knowing and seeing the outcomes of a variety of spinning skills frees students to build unique and useful yarns to use with any project they have in mind.
In her classes Jillian’s students play and experiment with fibers and color, gain an enthusiasm for sampling, and come to see that their own definition of beautiful, consistent, or perfect yarn is the only one that matters.