Sunday, November 1, 2026 • 1:00–4:00 PM
$60 per person • All Supplies Included
Instructor: Marina Lee
Only 6 spots available!
Ever wondered how a fluffy pile of wool actually becomes yarn? Have you mastered every yarn-related craft available to you and decided it’s finally time to complete your evolution into full fiber witchery? Either way, it might be time to learn how to make the yarn itself.
This three-hour, beginner-friendly workshop will introduce you to handspinning using a Turkish drop spindle. No spinning experience is necessary. We’ll start with just your spindle and leader yarn, getting comfortable with how the spindle moves, how to set it spinning, and how to wind your yarn onto it.
Once you’ve gotten to know your spindle, we’ll add fiber! We’ll start with easy-to-spin pin roving so you can focus on adding twist and making yarn without worrying about drafting at the same time. From there, we’ll learn how to draft wool by hand before putting all of those skills together with the park-and-draft method.
Along the way, we’ll talk about how twist turns fiber into yarn, how to choose beginner-friendly wool, and how to troubleshoot the inevitable lumps, bumps, breaks, and accidental art yarn that are all part of learning to spin.
Best of all, your class materials include your own 3D-printed Turkish drop spindle and wool to take home, so you’ll have everything you need to keep practicing after class.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll have made your own handspun yarn, gotten to know your new spindle, and have the foundational skills you need to keep spinning on your own.
Instructor Bio:
Marina is a fiber artist, spinner, and enthusiastic collector of increasingly niche skills. Spinning and fiber arts are a special interest of hers, and she is on a mission to learn to spin on every kind of spindle she can get her hands on, while spreading the knowledge of spinning like the plague.
She loves spinning partly because it makes her feel delightfully Neolithic. For thousands of years, spinning was an essential human skill, once as ordinary and necessary as typing on a keyboard is today. Even more fascinating, cultures around the world independently developed their own tools and techniques for turning fiber into thread and yarn. Marina is passionate about keeping those traditional skills alive and is an enthusiastic patron of the John C. Campbell Folk School, and as many sheep and wool festivals as she can reasonably get herself to.
Her long-term goal is to follow fiber from beginning to end: raising sheep, processing their fleece, spinning the fiber, and creating the finished object entirely by hand. She is currently studying sheep husbandry and planning a move to upstate New York, with hopes of having a small flock of her own.
Someday, she hopes to write a book about spinning her way through the world’s spindles, exploring where they came from, how they work, and the fibers they were traditionally used to spin. In the meantime, she’d very much like to teach as many people as possible how to make yarn.
Sunday, November 1, 2026 • 1:00–4:00 PM
$60 per person • All Supplies Included
Instructor: Marina Lee
Only 6 spots available!
Ever wondered how a fluffy pile of wool actually becomes yarn? Have you mastered every yarn-related craft available to you and decided it’s finally time to complete your evolution into full fiber witchery? Either way, it might be time to learn how to make the yarn itself.
This three-hour, beginner-friendly workshop will introduce you to handspinning using a Turkish drop spindle. No spinning experience is necessary. We’ll start with just your spindle and leader yarn, getting comfortable with how the spindle moves, how to set it spinning, and how to wind your yarn onto it.
Once you’ve gotten to know your spindle, we’ll add fiber! We’ll start with easy-to-spin pin roving so you can focus on adding twist and making yarn without worrying about drafting at the same time. From there, we’ll learn how to draft wool by hand before putting all of those skills together with the park-and-draft method.
Along the way, we’ll talk about how twist turns fiber into yarn, how to choose beginner-friendly wool, and how to troubleshoot the inevitable lumps, bumps, breaks, and accidental art yarn that are all part of learning to spin.
Best of all, your class materials include your own 3D-printed Turkish drop spindle and wool to take home, so you’ll have everything you need to keep practicing after class.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll have made your own handspun yarn, gotten to know your new spindle, and have the foundational skills you need to keep spinning on your own.
Instructor Bio:
Marina is a fiber artist, spinner, and enthusiastic collector of increasingly niche skills. Spinning and fiber arts are a special interest of hers, and she is on a mission to learn to spin on every kind of spindle she can get her hands on, while spreading the knowledge of spinning like the plague.
She loves spinning partly because it makes her feel delightfully Neolithic. For thousands of years, spinning was an essential human skill, once as ordinary and necessary as typing on a keyboard is today. Even more fascinating, cultures around the world independently developed their own tools and techniques for turning fiber into thread and yarn. Marina is passionate about keeping those traditional skills alive and is an enthusiastic patron of the John C. Campbell Folk School, and as many sheep and wool festivals as she can reasonably get herself to.
Her long-term goal is to follow fiber from beginning to end: raising sheep, processing their fleece, spinning the fiber, and creating the finished object entirely by hand. She is currently studying sheep husbandry and planning a move to upstate New York, with hopes of having a small flock of her own.
Someday, she hopes to write a book about spinning her way through the world’s spindles, exploring where they came from, how they work, and the fibers they were traditionally used to spin. In the meantime, she’d very much like to teach as many people as possible how to make yarn.
