We help you make more yarns you love.
We help you make more yarns you love.
HOW WE HELP
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Spin School
A five month course on the fundamentals of handspinning. Created with both rookie and self-taught spinners in mind, the course is designed to help students move from feeling confused, frustrated, and overwhelmed at their wheels to feeling confident, relaxed, and joyful as they create yarns they love—reveling in every step of the process. Offered in April and October.
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Get on the waiting list here
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Breed School
Don’t know your Polwarth from your Perendale? Breed School is a year-long deep dive into the wonders of wool that will take you from wool-curious to wool-confident! After Breed School, you’ll know how to choose the perfect wool for the yarn and fabric you want to create—every single time. What’s more, you’ll gain skills, knowledge, and experience that will make you a better spinner, no matter what you’re spinning. We enroll a new class every June.
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The Guild
A membership community for intermediate and advanced spinners, that helps them go from feeling stuck, uninspired, and uncertain about the next steps in their spinning journey to feeling excited about sitting down at their wheel, prepared to let go of the “rules,” and ready to step into their full potential as fiber artists. Opens to new members in January.
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COMING SOON:
SHEEPSPOT’S GUIDE TO SPINNING COLOR
Sheepspot’s Guide to Spinning Color is an intensive, eight-week course that provides spinners with the knowledge and skills they need to work effectively with colored fibers and get the results they want, especially when spinning multicolored braids.
Students will learn:
about color theory and the color wheel
about the factors that affect color in handspun yarns
about optical mixing and its impact on multi-colored handspun yarns
a simple system for predicting how a colorway will look when spun
a variety of techniques for managing color
Students will leave the course with a library of reference swatches and the confidence and skills to create and combine colors without dyeing and to spin multi-colored braids into yarns they love
GET STARTED
Are you a new spinner? Feeling frustrated?
Click below to download our new free ebook about the five most common mistakes new spinners make and learn how to fix them!
Grab Sheepspot’s Spinning Record card!
Get a free PDF of our Spinning Record Cards. Each card has space on one side for extensive notes on the fiber you’re spinning. On the reverse side, record everything about your spinning process. You can attach samples of your singles, plied, and finished yarn right to the card.
