Drop Spindle: Hand-Spun Yarn Workshop

Have you ever wanted to make your own yarn? It’s easier than you think! In this Beginner Drop Spindle Spinning Workshop you’ll learn how to spin and ply a 2-ply yarn that you can use for knitting, crochet, or weaving. 

Skills taught will include how to set up your drop spindle for spinning, the park and draft method working up to suspended spinning, and how to ply 2 spun singles together to make a 2-ply yarn. Students will also receive instructions for how to wet finish the yarn once they get home, to make it stable and ready to use in their favourite yarn craft!

Enroll

  • Studio Mooi

    926 Kingston Rd, Toronto, ON

  • Friday, 6 March

    6:30 - 9:30

  • $130 + tax (materials included)

  • Learn this ancient craft in a 3-hour workshop with lots of hands-on practice. By the end students will have spun a mini skein of 2-ply yarn.

    What You Will Learn

    • Meet Your Drop Spindle: How this stone-age tool turns fibre into yarn

    • Pre-drafting Fibre: Getting used to how to attenuate the fibre to make it ready to spin

    • Park and Draft: Practice adding twist and drafting in a controlled way

    • Putting the “Drop” in Drop Spindle: Practice suspended spinning and making friends with gravity

    • Putting it All Together: Learning to combine 2 singles into a 2-ply yarn

    • Bath Time!: How to prep skeins to take home and wet finish (blocking)

  • This course will include:

    • 1 drop spindle

    • wool roving to learn on

    • Informational booklet

    • Instructions on blocking yarn at home