Selling Hand Spun Yarn

Meditative, relaxing, rewarding.  All words that apply to hand spinning.  It has become my favorite fiber activity over the last few years.  The result being that my pile of hand spun yarns has become overly large and I can't knit or weave enough to use it all up.  So an attempt will be made to sell some of the textured art yarns that I have made recently.  I listed a few on my etsy shop, with more coming.  It is hard to know how to price hand spun.  The fiber content, and the time you have put into the yarn with dyeing, combing, or carding, and spinning all play into the final price.  I recently bought a Mad Batt'r drum carder so I could make larger art batts for spinning textured yarn.  My friend asked how much I would have to sell to pay for that investment.  I just laughed.   If some of the yarns sell they will defray the cost of the fiber that has stockpiled around the house and studio,  but equipment is probably just a cost that will be paid for with money from the day job.  

Thick and Thin Spiral Ply

Here are a few pictures of my hand spun yarn and two of the projects made with my own yarn.

Core Spun

Hand Knit Wrap with Tassels

Hand Woven on a Modified Structo

Class: Intro to Spinning on a Wheel

I am lucky to be one of the artists sharing a lovely sunlit studio space in an old Elementary School.  We are setting up a series of summer arts classes and I have decided to teach an introductory spinning class.  The class will be May26, from 1:00-4:00 at East Canyon Studios in The Center, 59 Leicester St.  Perry, NY, 14530

My herd of wheels has grown to six and they all do different things very well.  My latest is an Ashford Country Spinner II, (I don't have this one yet, coming soon!) and the others include a Majacraft Rose, a Lendrum, an Ashford Scholar, a Fricke Electric Spinner and a Country Craftsman.

The Rose does almost anything well, the CC is fast and great for spinning fine, The Lendrum, a perfect all purpose wheel, the Scholar was my first and is a great beginners wheel.  The Fricke I bought mostly for plying and traveling and it is quiet and fast, and uses Majacraft bobbins, so now I have lots of those.  The Country Spinner is for spinning textured art yarns and the bobbins hold two pounds of yarn!

My idea for the class is to allow people who are thinking about buying a spinning wheel to come and try out several and see what they like or don't like about the different wheels.  Single treadle, double treadle, and double drive being some important choices to make.  I also have a variety of drop spindles for people to try.

The class fee is $30 and includes use of my equipment and a variety of fibers to use during the class.
I will discuss different types of fiber and the right prep for the type of yarn you would like to spin.

To register for the class you can email me at fiberlingo@gmail.com
or eastcanyonstudios@gmail.com

I accept paypal payments at fiberlingo@gmail.com
other methods of payment are also available

There are other classes available, view complete information on our offerings at eastcanyonstudios.wordpress.com


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