TESTER A Spinner's Compass: How to Measure Your Yarn with Jillian Moreno

Measuring isn’t one of the sexiest things about spinning, but it can point you in the direction to make exactly the yarn you want. From skein to skein and throughout a whole project, your yarns will be more consistent if you take the time to measure correctly. This webinar will give you the facts about how to measure, when to measure and why to measure, as well as the definitions of WPI, TPI, and YPP and what they mean to your spinning and knitting.

Jillian Moreno used to be a spinner who never measured her yarn. She also spun yarns that started out as worsted and ended up DK and never matched from bobbin to bobbin. Learning to measure her yarn was one of her ‘a-ha’ spinning moments. Step by step, she’ll teach you how to avoid her mistakes and what tools to use. She’ll show you examples of how measuring helps make a more consistent yarn and helps to match already spun yarns, both handspun and commercial. She’ll also show you the ways that mis-measuring can lie to you about your yarn. She’ll show you what you need for a measuring kit and provide a form for you to keep track of your yarn measurements. After watching you will never spin the same way again!

What You’ll Learn:

• How to measure your handspun yarn
• How measuring benefits your spinning, yarn and project
• When to measure your yarn
• What all of those measuring abbreviations mean
• How to adjust your spinning to change your yarn’s measurements
• How to spin a more consistent yarn
• What measuring tools you need
• What measurements you need to match a commercial yarn

Who Should Watch:

• Spinners who want to learn to measure their yarn
• Spinners who want to spin a more consistent yarn
• Spinners who want to spin yarn for a knitting patterns that call for commercial yarns
• Spinners who want more control over their yarn
  
• Spinners who want to know more about the yarns they spin
  
• Spinners who knit with their yarns
  

Instructor:

Jillian Moreno is passionate about handspun yarn. She is perpetually curious and loves to inspire other spinners to think a little differently. Along with being a published author and instructor, she is a regular contributor to PLY Magazine and Spin Off Magazine. Keep track of all of her crafty and other pursuits at www.jillianmoreno.com!

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