Calculating Fiber & Yarn For a Project

Handspun handknit sweater with dyed wool roving

Calculating Fiber & Yarn For a Project

$50.00

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This 2 hour workshop will help you figure out how to calculate how much fiber and yarn is needed for a commercial pattern.

  • Level: Advanced beginner/Intermediate

  • Drop spindlers, wheel spinners and electric spinners are all welcome.

  • Purchasing the workshop now will provide you with a PDF with instructions. Please make sure to download the PDF within 24 hours of purchase or the link will expire.

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DESCRIPTION:

Are you confident in your spinning skills that you would like to now spin for a specific project in mind? Perhaps you have the perfect fiber for a project but you’re just not sure how much of it you will need to spin to create a sweater’s quantity of yarn. In this workshop Alanna will walk you through the steps needed to figure out just how much fiber you will need to spin for a commercial pattern.

Topics covered will include:

  • Swatching

  • Matching a commercial pattern’s yarn’s specifications

  • How to modify your spinning to be best suited for the project of your choosing.

TECHNIQUES COVERED:

  • Making a control card and learning how to use it

  • Controlling grist

  • Using a swatch and pattern to predict yardage and fiber needed

PREREQUISITE SKILLS NEEDED:

Participant should be able to spin a continuous yarn and have basic plying knowledge/experience (plying a yarn from 2 bobbins)

MATERIALS NEEDED:

This workshop will be more of a lecture format, however, if you wish to participate while watching in optional spinning exercises you will need:

  • Index card or other heavy weight cardstock paper for creating a control card

  • Ruler or measuring tape

  • Commercial pattern you wish to spin for

  • 1-2 yards of the commercial yarn called for in above pattern or equivalent (optional but helpful)

  • digital scale (ability to weigh in grams)

  • safety pin

  • Google account (to be able to open, save and view template for calculations)

  • 1/2 oz of fiber that you wish to use for the commercial pattern

    • If you wish to work along with me during the workshop, you will want to spun up the 1/2 oz of fiber and create a 20 stitch x 40 row knitted swatch (for crochet you can make a similar size swatch and for weaving you can use a weavette/pin loom). Make sure the yarn you’re using is washed/finished as it will be used for your project

    • If you don’t have enough time to spin before the workshop you can use handspun you already have on hand and knit it into a 4” swatch recording number of stitches and rows.

If you have any questions about the workshop feel free to contact me via the form below.

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