Card Wool for Color Online Workshop

Choose your very own colorways and bring them to life with a few easy-to-master techniques!

In this Online Workshop you'll learn:

• How to use a drum carder for batts, rolags, and roving
• How to use a blending board for batts, rolags, and roving
• How to use a hackle for striped top
• How to create unique gradient and ombre striping yarns
• How to spin unique yarns with chain plying, fractal spinning, and cabling

Spinning yarns with color repeats is a joy-but buying fiber dyed to spin stripes can be expensive. Using Esther Rodgers’s best-selling video instruction throughout, this Online Workshop teaches everything you need to know to card wool for colorful striping yarns. From solid-colored top to multicolored yarns, this Online Workshop leads you step-by-step through the process of spinning the colorful yarn of your dreams. Begin Card Wool for Color with Esther Rodgers today!

Online Workshop Outline:

Lesson 1:

• Understanding Color: Gradients & Ombres

Lesson 2:

• Drum Carding
  • Batts & Rolags
  • Roving

Lesson 3:

• Using a Blending Board for Batts, Rolags & Roving

Lesson 4:

• Striped Top on a Hackle

Lesson 5:

• Get Spinning
  • Chain Plying
  • Fractal Spinning
  • Spinning Cabled Yarn

Lesson 6:

• Conclusion

About the Instructor

Esther Rodgers is a writer, teacher, and fiber artist who uses innovative techniques and materials to create her yarn and textile art. Beginning with raw wool, she washes, dyes, spins, and weaves fiber into one-of-a-kind yarns and fabrics. She has taught classes all over the world and makes her home in North Carolina. Learn more about Esther and her work at www.jazzturtle.com