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Spinning - A taster
Judy and Kate will work with you in this workshop to give you some hands on spinning time, allowing you to get a feeling for the yarn and the process.
Teacher: Judy and Kate James
Workshop Duration: Half Day
Description: This introduction to hand-spinning and an overview of tools you will need to spin your own yarn. The class will cover sourcing fleeces, quantities you will need for a project, quality of fleece as well as carding using hand carders and the drum carder. You will be taken through an intro to the wheel and basic set-up before starting to spin by using commercial wool then gradually switching across to fleece. Judy and Kate are also bringing books, fleeces from different animals, skeins/balls of different spun fibres and perhaps finished knitted garments/blankets etc for you to look through at the completion of the workshop.
Materials: All materials will be provided.
Takeaway: Some hands on spinning experience and an understanding of the spinning process.
Level: Beginner
So I wrote last week a post asking “Is my making fast fashion?”. And then I did a video on Instagram discussing similar topics in a slightly different way. And as always, you lovely humans have helped me clarify some of my thinking with your thoughtful, clever commentary.
And while I think there is so much more to discuss, here are four key possibly-more-meta ideas that have come up for me out of those conversations.
In using the quote last week that suggested that there was no single answer, and suggesting that this was freeing, I really did mean that we should sit in the grey. Not that the lack of “an” answer to this question should mean we get to ignore the question but rather that the lack of “an” answer means that we need to keep asking bigger more beautiful questions. And keep asking them.
Is my making fast fashion?
Am I living my values or merely thinking them?
And how can I make those two things a little more aligned in this moment?
These are my big beautiful questions.
Yours might be different.
And importantly this leads to point 2.