Summer School

Might have mentioned that I'll be teaching at the Association of Guilds of Weaver, Spinners and Dyers Summer School next year...
Very broadly I'm going to be teaching a course based around my book. In short. we will be spending the week experimenting with hand dyed braids, and generally becoming better and more confident spinners who are in control of the yarn we make!

I've just finished a sample piece that will be part of the discussion materials for the course. I took the 2 hand dyed colourways that I created for the Tour de Fleece, and plied them with the corresponding colours of Merino & Silk that were used as the dye colours in the variegated braids. As usual, the results are fascinating, and really highlight the value of sampling. 

Thanks to a grey welsh winter day the photos aren't the best, but hopefully give you a hint of the sort of experimentation we're going to be having fun with. We won't just be piling with solid colours either, we're going to be doing all sorts of experimentation, and really starting to dig in to the "why's" of certain colour combinations. There will be elements of the Power of Colour article I wrote for Ply Magazine, and we'll be looking at how to use the skeins you spin from hand dyed article. 
You will be doing lots, and lots of spinning, and I'll be encouraging you to turn your samples in to something meaningful and useful as a souvenir of the week. 
Applications are open to anyone, you don't have to be a guild member, or even a UK resident. 

Both hand dyed colourways plied together. This one is really interesting to look at, so many different new colours created from the optical blending.