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31. Spinning for Beginners
32. Treasure Trove—Designing Yarns from Your Stash
33. Colour With A Twist
Olds College Master Spinner Certificate Program
31. Spinning for Beginners (Sunshine Coast Spinners & Weavers Guild)
Materials fee: $0
Bring to class:
Nothing to bring
32. Treasure Trove—Designing Yarns from Your Stash (Kim Mckenna)
Materials fee: $20, includes:
- Detailed notebook
Bring to class:
- Spinning wheel, oiled and ready to go
- Students provide their own fibres
- Silky scarf for lap
- Bobbins (3 minimum)
- Lazy kate
- Sandwich-sized baggies
- Paper
- Pen/pencil
- Permanent marker
- Cello tape
- Scissors
- Stapler
- One hole punch
- 3 cardboard centres from toilet paper rolls
- Any preparation tools they may own or borrow—some examples include:
Wool cards, cotton cards, wool combs, mini-combs, diz, wool hackle, Russian paddle combs, flick carder, dog comb, ball winder, bobbin winder, umbrella swift, etc.
33. Colour With A Twist (Michelle Boyd)
Materials fee: $20, includes:
- A variety of hand spinning fibres
- Colour wheel
- Exercise booklet
Bring to class:
- Spinning wheel in good working order and all its parts (flyer, whorls, orifice hook)
- Lazy kate
- Hand cards
- Mini-wool combs (if student has them)
- Niddy-noddy (sample size, if the student has one)
- Knitting needles in a variety of sizes
Master Spinner Certificate Program—Olds College
Students should have a working relationship with a spinning wheel. The Beginner Spinning course is strongly recommended for those with little or no experience.
The Olds College Master Spinner Certificate Program consists of six progressive levels of classroom and independent study involving skill development, research studies and project assignments in the area of hand spinning of all major types of fibres, yarns and the end use of the spun yarns.
Levels 1-4 consist of a five day (30 hours) workshop while Levels 5 and 6 are seven days (42 hours) in length. Each level is followed by an independent home study portion for those students working towards certification.
At all levels, students are evaluated on the basis of written assignments, practical projects, oral presentations and skill development.
Those individuals who successfully complete the assignments in all six levels will receive a Master Spinner Certificate from Olds College.
Supplies to be brought by Participant:
- Spinning Wheel
- Lubricant for Spinning Wheel
- Plastic bags (100 sandwich size; 12 large)
- Scissors
- Sticky labels or Tags with strings
- Black permanent marker
- Masking tape
- Pen and paper
- Apron (optional)
For the Dye Room:
- Clothing to protect from dye
- Rubber gloves
- Dust mask
- Paper towels
- 150 yards of 2 or 3 ply white wool for dyeing, handspun or commercial
- Cotton string for tying skeins
- White adhesive tape or string labels made from twill tape or plastic embroidery thread holders with string ties added (all must be waterproof)