Las Arañas 2012 Workshops

Las Arañas Spinners and Weavers Guild sponsors educational workshops each year.

Lynn Ruggles is a spinner, knitter and weaver. She began spinning in 1987 and began teaching spinning in 1998. She taught knitting and beadwork for several years before that. She is a technical spinner and loves learning new spinning techniques, mastering the use of new equipment or experimenting with different fibers or fiber combinations. Lynn is offering two 1-day workshops. Friday, March 2: What’s Your Spin? Teaches how to spin different yarns for different projects from one fleece. The class will evaluate three different fleeces and spin three different yarns from each fleece, fine, medium and bulky. Class fee: $50, materials fee: $10. Saturday, March 3: Spinning for Socks. This class will cover different spinning and plying techniques to produce yarns that are elastic, durable and comfortable for sock construction. The class will also examine how to spin dyed roving to control color patterning in order to make matching socks or unique socks. Also covered will be sock construction, sock knitting techniques and care of handspun socks. Class fee: $50, materials fee: $15. The workshops will be at Village Wools from 9-4 with approximately 1-hour lunch break. They are limited to 15 students in each workshop. Fill in the registration form to enter.

Registration Form for Spinning workshops March 2, 3 by Lynn Ruggles

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I want to take the following workshop(s): What’s Your Spin? Spinning for Socks Registration opens Monday, January 4 and closes Friday, February 24. Please send a $15 deposit (made out to Las Aranas) for each workshop entered. Send to Liz McMaster, 2901 Hyder Ave. SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106.

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