Creating the Yarn You Want
Spinning With Commercial Yarns
Spinning Marl Yarns
Mechanics of Your Wheel
Spinning With Silk Hankies
I-Cord Edges and More!
Biography of Amy Tyler

AMY TYLER

Creating the Yarn You Want
Thursday October 13, 2011
9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Class Fee – $ 150.00
Class Size - 15 Students
Description of Content: This workshop is designed for the spinner who wants to gain greater control over the final characteristics of the yarn she or he spins.  We will practice methods for controlling the thickness and twist of yarns.  We will cover techniques for creating yarns that are consistent from bobbin to bobbin, and that match already existing yarns, either hand spun or commercial.  We will also cover techniques for plying a “balanced” yarn.
Materials List:  Participants should bring a spinning wheel in good working order, extra bobbins, lazy kate

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Spinning With Commercial Yarns
Friday October 14, 2011
9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Class Fee – $ 150.00
Class Size - 15 Students
Description of Content:  Here are some strategies for combining your fiber stash and your yarn stash!  In this workshop, participants will explore ways to “re-spin” commercial yarns as well as ways to spin together commercial yarns and fiber.  We will cover techniques for creating and using energized yarns, core-spun yarns, yarns plied more than once, and plying together handspun and commercial.
Materials List:  a spinning wheel, lazy kate, 3 bobbins, miscellaneous balls of commercial yarns of all kinds and sizes.

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Spinning Marl Yarns
Saturday October 15, 2011
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Class Fee – $ 75.00
Class Size - 15 Students
Description of Content:  Marl yarns are often defined as plied yarns in which the plies are different colors.  We will cover techniques for making those yarns, as well as making marl yarns in which the plies are from different fiber sources.  In the process, we will cover strategies for controlling thickness and twist of singles and for plying to create 2- and 3-ply balanced yarns.
Materials List:  Participants should bring a spinning wheel in good working order, extra bobbins, lazy kate

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Mechanics of Your Wheel
Saturday October 15, 2011
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Class Fee – $ 75.00
Class Size - 15 Students
Description of Content:  Spinning wheels are marvelous machines!  In this workshop, we will cover the ways spinning wheels work.  There will be spinning exercises to help participants make sense of drive mechanisms, drive ratios, take-up tension, and wheel maintenance.  Along the way, participants will be introduced to concepts of mechanics such as force, torque, angular momentum, and friction in a non-mathematical way.
Materials List:  Participants should bring a spinning wheel in good working order

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Spinning With Silk Hankies
Sunday October 16, 2011
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Class Fee – $ 75.00
Class Size - 15 Students
Description of Content:  Silk hankies are a “mawata” silk that consist of very thin layers of silk squares.  We will learn strategies for preparing these hankies for spinning, and then we will spin them using various strategies, including Navajo plying.  We will cover strategies for making your hands smooth to minimize snagging of silk on your hands, and various uses of silk hankies and yarns spun from them.
Materials List:  Participants should bring a spinning wheel in good working order.

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I-Cord Edges and More!
Sunday October 16, 2011
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Class Fee – $ 75.00
Class Size - 15 Students
Description of Content:  “I-cords” make wonderful, stable edges on a knitted piece, worked along with the knitted piece or added later.  In the process of knitting a sample wrist warmer, we will cover using I-cords for side edges, binding off, buttonholes, as well as added I-cords.  We will also cover techniques for making I-cord fringe, for grafting I- cord ends together to make continuous I-cord circles, and for using I-cords in all kinds of knitting.  Students will leave with a pattern for full-sized wrist warmers.
Materials List:  Participants should bring a ball of smooth yarn (sport to heavy worsted weight); knitting needles appropriate for the yarn (straight and double-pointed or circular); a darning needle.

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Biography of Amy Tyler:
Amy has a fine arts degree in modern dance, and graduate degrees in kinesiology and physiology.  She has been knitting and designing for over 20 years, spinning for 10 years, and teaching for over 30 years.  Amy’s fiber arts work is heavily influenced by both her fine arts training and her science training:  common to both is an appreciation for composition, pattern recognition, and systematic exploration.  The result is her focus on texture, three-dimensional structure, and knit designs that exploit handspinning techniques.  Her fiber work has been published in Spin-Off, Fiberline Magazine, and Knit Lit the Third.  She offers her knit designs and hand spun yarns under the business name “Stone Sock Fibers”, www.stonesockfibers.com


Amy Tyler
STONE SOCK FIBERS
atyler@centurytel.net or amy@stonesockfibers.com
www.stonesockfibers.com
www.stonesockblog.blogspot.com