We will be enjoying the festival and demonstrating spinning!  Hope we see you there!!

Strong Family Farm is having a homesteading Day on Sunday June 30th. They are having a canning demonstration; going to talk about gardening at home and raising chickens. They are hoping to have sheep or alpaca visitors.

We will be enjoying the festival and demonstrating spinning!  Hope we see you there!!

Please join us for a Virtual Distaff Day on Zoom. If you’re interested in joining us, please email me (TerriSpins@gmail.com) or PM me on my Terri Spins Facebook page for the link.

Distaff Day (Roc Day) is the day after the feast of the Epiphany. It is also known as Saint Distaff's Day, one of the many unofficial holidays in Catholic nations.

Many St. Distaff's Day gatherings are held, large and small, throughout local fiber communities. The distaff, or rock, used in spinning was the medieval symbol of women's work.

In many European cultural traditions, women resumed their household work after the twelve days of Christmas. Women of all classes would spend their evenings spinning on the wheel. During the day, they would carry a drop spindle with them. Spinning was the only means of turning raw wool, cotton or flax into thread, which could then be woven into cloth.

I will be marching in the parade with the Ye Olde Lebanon Towne Militia and spinning on a spindle.

November 25th is St. Catherine's Day. St. Catherine is the patron saint of spinners.

We will be honoring her by spinning (and doing other fiber arts) together in Zoom. If you have some free time, we would love it if you'd join us!

If you would like to join us on Zoom, please email me or PM me on my Terri Spins Facebook page.

If you are unable to join us, so please comment, post pictures, and tell us what you will be spinning in honor of our patron saint.

Enter the world of spinning on the go! Whether you’re new to spinning or just want to step away from your wheel, spindles are a fun way to create your own yarn. Learn the basics of drop spindle spinning using the “park and draft” method, then move on to other drafting methods and different ways to ply your yarn. We will also discuss different types of spindles and their various characteristics, as well as spindle care and maintenance.

Price: $125.00

• Skill Level: All Levels

• Technique: Spinning

• Prerequisites: None

• Kit Cost: $10.00 payable to the instructor.

• Kit Contents: Kit includes fiber and handouts.

• Supplies Students Must Bring: Note-taking supplies. Spindle (if student has one). The instructor will have a limited number of spindles available for participants to borrow during the workshop, but these must be reserved in advance.

• Homework: None.

I will be demonstrating spinning with the Ye Olde Lebanon Towne Militia.  I will be demonstrating while riding in the back of the cannon trailer during the Gaspee Days Parade.

Are you intrigued by the possibilities that a blending board opens up but don’t know where to start? Would you like to see what you can accomplish before committing to buying your own? Or maybe you have played around with your blending board and would like to explore some new options. In this workshop, we will start with the basics of applying and removing fiber and the care and cleaning of your blending board. We will then move on to some of the more interesting things we can do with blending boards, such as making matching batts, striping, garneting, etc.

Price: $275

• Skill Level: All Levels

• Technique: Spinning

• Prerequisites: None

• Kit Cost: $40.00 payable to the instructor.

• Kit Contents: Kit includes fiber, additional blending board supplies, and handouts.

• Supplies Students Must Bring: You should bring a Blending Board (if you have one). Instructor will have a limited number of blending boards available for participants to borrow during the workshop. However, the instructor’s boards must be reserved in advance. Contact the Yarn Fest team if interested in borrowing a board.

• Homework: None

We will be enjoying the festival and demonstrating spinning!  Hope we see you there!!

Spinners and their toys! We all have them. And we all have at least one tool that gives us trouble. What’s your challenge? Do you know how to wind a center pull ball on a nostepinne? Do you know how to use a McMorran Yarn Balance? These are just a few of the tools that we’ll play with and see if we can’t get “more power!” out of them. Oh, and what can we do when we don’t have our tools handy?

Price:
Early Bird Pricing – Ends January 31, 2023 $125.00
Regular Pricing – Beginning February 1, 2023 $150.00

• Skill Level: All Levels

• Technique: Spinning

• Prerequisites: None

• Kit Cost: $5.00 payable to the instructor.

• Kit Contents: Kit includes handouts.

• Supplies Students Must Bring: Note taking supplies. Any tools you have that are related to your specific questions (i.e., handcards, nostepinne, etc.).

• Homework: None

If you looking for new and interesting ways to stretch a braid of fiber, spinning a crepe or cable yarn is a good alternative to a marled yarn. Maybe you’re looking for a different way to combine braids with different colorways.

Crepe yarns are a plied yarn and a single plied together. A cable yarn is a plied yarn plied with another plied yarn. These novelty yarns can also be a way to expand your yarn options in fabric construction.

Price:
Early Bird Pricing – Ends January 31, 2023 $125.00
Regular Pricing – Beginning February 1, 2023 $150.00

• Skill Level: Intermediate

• Technique: Spinning

• Prerequisites: None

• Kit Cost: $25.00 payable to the instructor.

• Kit Contents: Kit includes fiber and handouts.

• Supplies Students Must Bring: Note taking supplies, a spinning wheel in good working order, extra bobbins, lazy kate, and a niddy noddy.

• Homework: Pre-spin ½ or so ounces of singles (solid color) before the class, yarn should be spun firmly but not overspun.

Enter the world of spinning on the go! Whether you’re a new to spinning or just want to step away from your wheel, spindles are a fun way to create your own yarn. Learn the basics of drop spindle spinning using the “park and draft” method, then move on to other drafting methods and different ways to ply your yarn. We will also discuss different types of spindles and their various characteristics, as well as spindle care and maintenance.

Price:
Early Bird Pricing – Ends January 31, 2023 $125.00
Regular Pricing – Beginning February 1, 2023 $150.00

• Skill Level: Beginner

• Technique: Spinning

• Prerequisites: None

• Kit Cost: $10.00 payable to the instructor.

• Kit Contents: Kit includes fiber and handouts.

• Supplies Students Must Bring: Spindle (if student has one)—the instructor will have a limited number of spindles available for participants to borrow during the workshop, but these must be reserved in advance. The instructor will also have a few pieces of equipment (i.e., niddy noddies, nostepinnes) for participants to use during the workshop.

• Homework: None

Do you remember all the advice that more experienced spinners shared with you when you first started spinning? And all those fabulous tips and tricks that they swore by? No? Maybe you have forgotten some of them due to information overload? Yes? Well, fear not!

We will cover those questions that surface most often for spinners, whether wheel or spindle, and will offer suggestions on ways to overcome the problems and issues in a range of spinning topics. Some of the topics covered in this workshop will include: Wheel maintenance, spindle storage, fiber characteristics, drafting, plying, and finishing.

I want to be prepared with the necessary tools and supplies! Bring your questions or submit them before the workshop to TerriSpins@gmail.com.

Price:
Early Bird Pricing – Ends January 31, 2023 $125.00
Regular Pricing – Beginning February 1, 2023 $150.00

• Skill Level: All Levels

• Technique: Spinning

• Prerequisites: None

• Kit Cost: $10.00 payable to the instructor.

• Kit Contents: Kit includes fiber and handouts.

• Supplies Students Must Bring: Note taking supplies. A spinning wheel in good working order or spindles, any tools and/or fiber that are related to your specific questions (i.e., handcards, nostepinne, etc.).

• Homework: None

I hope that you can join me as I demonstrate spinning with other members of the Nutmeg Spinners’ Guild!

An Interactive Celebration and Demonstration of All Things Fiber!

While our sheep are being shorn, Hill-Stead Museum will welcome fiber artists and vendors demonstrating skirting, carding, spinning, weaving, knitting, crocheting, felting; storytelling; and more. There will be free hayrides to and from the barns, food vendors, and craft activities.

Learn what it takes to create something “from sheep to shawl.” It’s a celebration—Join us!

Quinquatrus of Minerva (Actually March 19th)
Roman festival of the Goddess Minerva (Greek Athena)
The patroness of medicine, handicrafts, doctors, artists, weaving, sewing, painting, teaching, dyeing, spinning and wisdom and as font of artistic inspiration.

Sunday, March 19th was the Quinquatrus of Minerva. But we had another obligation on the 19th and we like to have these gatherings on the weekend so that more folks can join us! Therefore, we will be gathering on Saturday, March 25th.

***** If you would like to join us on Zoom, please email me or PM me on my Terri Spins Facebook page prior to the event. *****

If you have other obligations for the day, please join us in spirit, comment and tell us what you will be spinning, and share a picture or two!! ;D

Saturday, February 3rd was St. Blaise's Day. But since That Saturday is our Spinning Guild meeting, we will be gathering on Zoom on Sunday, February 11th.

If you have other plans that day, please join us in spirit, comment and tell us what you will be spinning, and share a picture or two!! ;D

 ***** If you would like to join us on Zoom, please email me or see the links on my Terri Spins Facebook page and in my TerriSpins Facebook group. *****

 St. Blaise is the patron saint of wool combers.

Saint Blaise, was a physician, and bishop of Sebastea in historical Armenia (modern Sivas, Turkey). According to the Acta Sanctorum, he was martyred by being beaten, attacked with iron combs, and beheaded. He is the patron saint of wool combers.

Friday, February 3rd was St. Blaise's Day. But since this Saturday was our Spinning Guild meeting, we will be gathering on Zoom on Saturday, February 11th.

If you have other plans that day, please join us in spirit, comment and tell us what you will be spinning, and share a picture or two!! ;D

 ***** If you would like to join us on Zoom, please email me or see the links on my Terri Spins Facebook page and in my TerriSpins Facebook group. *****

 St. Blaise is the patron saint of wool combers.

Saint Blaise, was a physician, and bishop of Sebastea in historical Armenia (modern Sivas, Turkey). According to the Acta Sanctorum, he was martyred by being beaten, attacked with iron combs, and beheaded. He is the patron saint of wool combers.

I will be marching in the parade with the Ye Olde Lebanon Towne Militia and spinning on a spindle.

Enter the world of spinning on the go! Whether you’re a new to spinning or just want to step away from your wheel, spindles are a fun way to create your own yarn. Learn the basics of drop spindle spinning using the “park and draft” method, then move on to other drafting methods and different ways to ply your yarn. We will also discuss different types of spindles and their various characteristics, as well as spindle care and maintenance.

Price: $50

• Skill Level: Beginner

• Technique: Spinning

• Prerequisites: None

• Kit Cost: $15.00 payable to the instructor.

• Kit Contents: Kit includes fiber and handouts.

• Supplies Students Must Bring: Spindle (if student has one)—the instructor will have a limited number of spindles available for participants to borrow during the workshop, but these must be reserved in advance. The instructor will also have a few pieces of equipment (i.e., niddy noddies, nostepinnes) for participants to use during the workshop.

• Homework: None

I will be demonstrating spinning, on spindles and a spinning wheel, with the Ye Olde Lebanon Towne Militia.

I will be demonstrating spinning, on both spindles and spinning wheel, with the Ye Olde Lebanon Towne Militia.

I always have a variety of spinning tools, as well as different types of fiber available for viewing (and touching, of course!!).

Leffingwell House Museum invites you to Midsummer Living History Day on Saturday, August 13, 11-3pm. The Lebanon Militia will be on site with their skilled crafters, as will Big Bear Trading Co. who can fulfill all your colonial needs! In addition we will have a special exhibit, from our Archives, of two personal Whaling Journals, actual accounts written on Whaling voyages. In addition, visitors can talk with Mary Brewster, wife of the captain of Whaling ship Tiger, who went a-whaling with her husband in 1845. Learn about life aboard the ship which was written in the journal she kept during the voyage. See another journal from the same voyage, which was written by a young seaman from Norwich!! Men from CT went down to the sea, as did some courageous women!

I will be demonstrating spinning, on spindles and on a spinning wheel, with the Ye Olde Lebanon Towne Militia at the Orange History Day.

I will be demonstrating spinning, on spindles and a spinning wheel, with the Ye Olde Lebanon Towne Militia.

Lebanon Town Militia Encampment Day

On the grounds of the Beaumont House
Event to include some militia and settlers.

Demonstrations include:

leather working, spinning and other colonial crafts and stories

As a special treat, colonial chocolate, hot chocolate and tea will be sold.

Free and open to the public

I will be demonstrating spinning, on spindles and a spinning wheel, with the Ye Olde Lebanon Towne Militia.

I will be demonstrating spinning with the Ye Olde Lebanon Towne Militia.  I will be demonstrating while riding in the back of the cannon trailer during the Gaspee Days Parade.