I don't know how I missed this video! Jillian is my most fav fibre person ever. She explains things so well, and so calmly. I never tire of hearing her teaching.
Great interview!! I wish I had found Jillian 20 years ago. It sounds like we had the SAME spinning teacher. I was a stay-at-home mom with 3 kiddos (one infant) and desperately wanted to learn to spin and keep a personal/creative identity outside of wife and mom. Not only was it a dirty fleece, it was a crappy fleece with about a 1.5 inch staple length which was a nightmare as a brand new spinner. After much frustration, I sold both of my wheels to fiber friends and went back to my knitting. Love the community of fiber friends I have found through UA-cam, so many shared experiences. 🙂
Thank you for making this all possible. I am new to spinning due to watching your "I'll knit if I want to" and just got my first wheel. I live in. a small town to appreciate all the knowledge that you provide in your questions and answers. Jillian is such a delightful knowlegeable spinner and between the two of you I have learned so much from this episode.
Hi Jillian 🎉 yours is my 1st spinning book and I love your style of teaching. I agree there’s nothing worse than the “have to” style of teaching, takes all of the fun out of creative expression and innovative discoveries. 😊
I’m not a spinner. my interest hasn’t gone that direction so far. But I am fascinated by the yarn and the qualities of the yarn I use in my knitting. This was so interesting and informative, I really enjoyed this episode. Thank you
The question about yarn always breaking was such a problem for me when I started spinning just last year. It was so frustrating, and although I had taken classes through my guild, I'm sure a lot of info went in and right back out of my brain. I do wish that I had seen this video when I first started spinning, because that tip about moving the drive band to a smaller whorl in order to get more twist was a game changer for me, that I only discovered a couple of months ago! Anyone want my loosely spun skeins of yarn? 😅😉 Something else I just learned is that it's okay to overtwist to a degree, because we lose some twist during the finishing process, from plying, soaking, snapping, thwacking, and drying. Always learning! ❤ Thank you, Andrea, for bringing Jillian to us in this informative Q&A video!
Well I didn’t really expect to tear up watching this, but I did! I just finished my first yarn and it was Soooooo bulky and last night I tried to spin thinner and the amount of breakage and the size of the pile of fluff next to me was making me so frustrated. Thank you so much for addressing that problem AND for saying that for your first year of spinning you dealt with that. I felt so much relief hearing that and the tears popped into my eyeballs.
Ha! The reference to Outlander and Jamie is so perfect as spinning and knitting are exactly what I do when I get a few minutes to myself to watch that show. Love this episode so much, thanks ladies!!
What a treat! Thank you so much for this video. I will definitely be checking Jillian’s Patron! I’m a newish spinner and all the info I can get is appreciated
Thank you for this episode. I started spinning about 5 years ago, when I couldn't knit for a while. Last year I choosed to knit your nightshift shawl. During the tour de fleece, I dyed, mixed and carded fiber, learned to make rolags .... and got the colors and yarn I wanted to knit with. After watching your videos I ordered Jillian Morenos book yarnitecture. It brought me to the next level of spinning: I used to spin and then look at the yarn and decide what to do with it. Now I can also choose a project and create the yarn I will need for it. I love to be able to use both approaches. The two of you influenced my fiber love a lot, thank you ...greetings from Germany
Holy cannoli!! Yarnitecture is at the very top of my book list!!! I’m on a pretty strict budget, so I’m “allowed” one book a month. It’s March’s purchase. (I bought a novel this month 🥴) Not entirely sure how I missed this when it premiered, but am so glad I found it, now. I’ve knit & crocheted for 40 years, more on than off, but am a brand new, baby spinner…this was invaluable and definitely brought me joy. Thank you so much!
How fun was this? Thanks for bringing Jillian on! I love that she loves spinning dyed braids. When I start to feel guilty about not preparing my own fibre I think of her. She gives me permission! :)
This episode was super cool! I've tried several times to get into Jillian's classes when she is teaching at Ply. She is amazing and now that I know I can see more of her and her techniques, I can always look her up. Thank you for providing this guest speaker for the spinners that watch you!
Thank you so much for this episode! I probably will never spin but I learned so much and will appreciate spinners even more and Gillian you are such a charming person. Wonderful to meet you. Such a lovely synergy between the two of you. Always more to learn. ❤️
Oh my gosh, my spinning journey started much the same way, with a horrible (for me) instructor lol. Now, I try to teach in that relaxed, let's do what you love way, too ❤ The only comment I would say differently is this - even if you're spinning a commercial prep, if it's wool you're still starting with a sheep 😁 Great episode, thank you!
I loved this episode so much! Thank you so much for making this possible! You two just made my day, really! I have been spinning on my e-spinner for a couple of years now, but I never bought any books on spinning until now! I ordered Jillian´s book and I am so exited to dive into it for playing around with my spinning! YAAAY ---- you two have been so lovely and positive, this is really heartwearming and so empowering! Sending hugs and greetings from germany! Mirjam
I really enjoyed this episode, I am an ultra newbie spinner but at present I only have a spindle. I really love Jillian's relaxed teaching style. I feel like I have learnt quite a bit in such a short time. Thanks to you both! 😁💕
This episode was simply the best! Love Jillian and her books and love her enthusiasm that she brings. I recently began keeping a spinning journal and have included a washed sample of my yarn as well as the just spun one. I have been spinning for years and have a pretty good idea of how most fibers will bloom but it’s always good to have a visual. And thank you so much Andrea! You have given me the confidence that I need to actually use my hand spun in my knitting. Your videos are so much appreciated.
I just love this episode and spinning to knitting. I have a new to me wheel. It is an antique wheel but is so smooth and has all the parts yay. So I can not wait to learn. Thank you for the positive motivation! I have only been knitting socks for a year but want to start with socks
OMG I love Jillain and her book: Big Girl Knits. It's SUCH a great book in teaching you how to work with your body. Happy to learn more about her and spinning! I love that no time is wasted
Got out Yarnitecture and will reread before my new spinning wheel arrives. Lots of good practical advice. I too have some Corriedale. Mine is a lovely soft brown. I also have some merino roving from Australia or New Zealand that I bought with my sister around 1975, We split 35lbs. (I think). Figure it would be fine for getting my spinning fingers back after 20 years or more of not spinning.
Wonderful wonderful interview!!! I’ve been renewing my spinning interest and this really helped boost my excitement and knowledge. And my Yarnitecture book just showed up.
When I got my 1st (and only) spinning wheel (2nd hand from facebook marketplace), the woman who sold it to me also gave me a large trashbag of unknown fiber. She had gotten this from the woman she had bought the wheel from. Because it was all I had on hand (there's not really anywhere near by to buy fiber from), knowing literally nothing, I tried to spin it. It was awful. It was just this giant fluff of fiber, and it didn't...FEEL like wool. So I decided to do a burn test. This fiber practically EXPLODED in fire. It was then that I knew this was probably some fiber fill from the big box store, probably like 100% polyester or acrylic. I immediately went and threw that whole bag in the trash. Sure, I could have saved it for pillow fillings or something, but with how incredibly flammable it was, I didn't even want it in the house. I went and bought some non-specific breed pencil roving from my yarn store when they opened up a couple days later and it was SO much better. So yea, echoing Andrea and Jillian's statements about not wasting your time on terrible fiber as a beginner.
I spun 1lb of Jacob when I was learning to just practice and practice. I am mostly a support spindle spinner and it was the practice I needed to have confidence spinning.
I enjoyed this video so much, I’m so happy you added spinning into you videos. I’m reading her book again for the 2nd time and by the way I bought the book after you showing it on one of your videos. Hope to take a class from her sometime.
Thank you! This episode was very helpful! I am at the point in my spinning journey where I have the mechanics down and now I can start to think about how to alter my tools to create the yarn I want to use. I am a very relaxed treadler (is that a word) so before I spin my next sock yarn, I am going to purchase a faster whorl. This is all information that I have learned before, but wasn’t ready to use until now. Thanks for the reminder!
Thank goodness a spinner that doesn't talk about ratios, wpi, and other things I never relate to. I enjoy spinnng where the fiber takes me. I worried for a while that I wasn't embracing the math, but then I realized that spinners that love that aspect of spinning are happy with that and I am not. I spin A LOT, and I change whorls, scotch tension and tredling all of the time without fear. The fiber tells me where it is happiest. My kromski was the best spinning wheel for me to learn on, and the others that have joined the herd have built on that. Oh btw, about singles breaking, I break them when I might put too much twist in a single, as well as too little. It goes both ways for me especially on a very fast setting of an espinner, like my Sprarrow.
Awesome timing. I'm about to start a spin for worsted yarn (new sweater). I was so overly concerned how to spin the Polworth ❤️ properly. More samples will be required. Thanks so much . I'm ready to start sampling now.
Andrea, spinning sounds so much like using a thread sewing machine. Controlling the fabric, how fast or slow you treadle, keeping the stitches even. That’s what I learned to sew on and there is a lot going on but once you get the hang of it you are away to the races. Good luck with your spinning.
This video is SO exciting! I just finished reading Yarnitecture upon your recommendation. I am a super new (read two-month old) drop spinner, and I've been showing every phase of my first spin on my own channel. When folks ask how I learned I point them straight to the books because the side-by-side comparisons fascinated me and really helped to conceptualize the words.
❤️ this episode! I’m so happy that you have spinning along with knitting in your podcast. I’ve only been spinning since early pandemic but am addicted. I too love a book and visuals to learn. And then to have the author on with you 👏👏. There is so much to learn, though to look at it all as an adventure for each of us. And permission to do what we like, how we want, and create what gives us that big grin inside 😆😆. Also Andrea your teaching videos are the best. I’m willing to try any stitch you have in your arsenal. 😘
Great vlogcast to wake up to!! Loved it! I had Yarnitecture at one point but lent it out and never got it back. Can’t remember who had it🤷🏼♀️ thanks for a great episode. ❤️
I loved this! I totally blame you (Andrea) for the drop spindle and fibre headed towards me in the mail right now. I’m banned from buying a wheel until I move into my new house in a year or so, where I’ll have actual space to have it set up, but I couldn’t wait to get into spinning after watching your videos! I’m casting on another Harlow as I watch this, and am up to my first fleegle heel in my DRK Everyday sock for the knit and spin along. I’m going to go follow Jillian on all the platforms now! (Also, let us know if you start a patreon too!!)
Two things! First, I now feel empowered to color-code or name my whorls, and not try to remember my ratios! Second, Andrea, are you from Northern Michigan? How far north? Petoskey-to-Mackinac girl here. Okay, three things-Jillian’s Patreon crowd is lovely. Just such a fun crew. I learn something wonderful every time we get together!
Thank you for all the information. I’m just getting started with spinning but currently only using a drop spindle. Is this book appropriate for drop spindle users or only on a wheel? I’m hoping in a few years to get a spinning wheel but it won’t be until my kids are older. Thanks.
I don't know how I missed this video! Jillian is my most fav fibre person ever. She explains things so well, and so calmly. I never tire of hearing her teaching.
Excellent interview! Thank you both for shining some much-needed light on the spinning universe! ~
Great interview!! I wish I had found Jillian 20 years ago. It sounds like we had the SAME spinning teacher. I was a stay-at-home mom with 3 kiddos (one infant) and desperately wanted to learn to spin and keep a personal/creative identity outside of wife and mom. Not only was it a dirty fleece, it was a crappy fleece with about a 1.5 inch staple length which was a nightmare as a brand new spinner. After much frustration, I sold both of my wheels to fiber friends and went back to my knitting. Love the community of fiber friends I have found through UA-cam, so many shared experiences. 🙂
oh how perfect . It popped up whist spinning for your sock spinning / knitting along . Such a burst of positivity .... and no numbers ..... bliss
Thank you for making this all possible. I am new to spinning due to watching your "I'll knit if I want to" and just got my first wheel. I live in. a small town to appreciate all the knowledge that you provide in your questions and answers. Jillian is such a delightful knowlegeable spinner and between the two of you I have learned so much from this episode.
I LOVE Jillian's newsletter!! I missed this episode and she had a link. SOO glad to see you both.
Hi Jillian 🎉 yours is my 1st spinning book and I love your style of teaching. I agree there’s nothing worse than the “have to” style of teaching, takes all of the fun out of creative expression and innovative discoveries. 😊
I’m not a spinner. my interest hasn’t gone that direction so far. But I am fascinated by the yarn and the qualities of the yarn I use in my knitting. This was so interesting and informative, I really enjoyed this episode. Thank you
I have checked out every spinning book from the library and hers is the absolute best.
The question about yarn always breaking was such a problem for me when I started spinning just last year. It was so frustrating, and although I had taken classes through my guild, I'm sure a lot of info went in and right back out of my brain. I do wish that I had seen this video when I first started spinning, because that tip about moving the drive band to a smaller whorl in order to get more twist was a game changer for me, that I only discovered a couple of months ago! Anyone want my loosely spun skeins of yarn? 😅😉 Something else I just learned is that it's okay to overtwist to a degree, because we lose some twist during the finishing process, from plying, soaking, snapping, thwacking, and drying. Always learning! ❤ Thank you, Andrea, for bringing Jillian to us in this informative Q&A video!
So happy you found it helpful!
Lovely and informative! Great to hear you both for inspiration and empowerment! Thank you again.
Well I didn’t really expect to tear up watching this, but I did! I just finished my first yarn and it was Soooooo bulky and last night I tried to spin thinner and the amount of breakage and the size of the pile of fluff next to me was making me so frustrated. Thank you so much for addressing that problem AND for saying that for your first year of spinning you dealt with that. I felt so much relief hearing that and the tears popped into my eyeballs.
Thank you. I so enjoyed this video. 🐑🙂
Ha! The reference to Outlander and Jamie is so perfect as spinning and knitting are exactly what I do when I get a few minutes to myself to watch that show. Love this episode so much, thanks ladies!!
Thank you for this amazing episode. Loads of inspiration for a novice spinner . Very encouraging.
What a treat! Thank you so much for this video. I will definitely be checking Jillian’s Patron! I’m a newish spinner and all the info I can get is appreciated
Ohhh my goodness what a wonderful episode! Spinning is just the best.
one of the best spinning explanation videos I have come across! thank you guys so much! xoxox
Thank you for this episode. I started spinning about 5 years ago, when I couldn't knit for a while. Last year I choosed to knit your nightshift shawl. During the tour de fleece, I dyed, mixed and carded fiber, learned to make rolags .... and got the colors and yarn I wanted to knit with. After watching your videos I ordered Jillian Morenos book yarnitecture. It brought me to the next level of spinning: I used to spin and then look at the yarn and decide what to do with it. Now I can also choose a project and create the yarn I will need for it. I love to be able to use both approaches. The two of you influenced my fiber love a lot, thank you ...greetings from Germany
Holy cannoli!! Yarnitecture is at the very top of my book list!!! I’m on a pretty strict budget, so I’m “allowed” one book a month. It’s March’s purchase. (I bought a novel this month 🥴) Not entirely sure how I missed this when it premiered, but am so glad I found it, now.
I’ve knit & crocheted for 40 years, more on than off, but am a brand new, baby spinner…this was invaluable and definitely brought me joy. Thank you so much!
So happy you enjoyed it!
What a great interview! Thank you both!!
This was great! So much information I didn’t
Know. Thanks!!!
I had the great opportunity to take a class with Jillian at SSK. She and Maggie Casey are the besr!
Thank you for this special spinning episode! I loved it! Hearing more about spinning from Jillian was wonderful
How fun was this? Thanks for bringing Jillian on! I love that she loves spinning dyed braids. When I start to feel guilty about not preparing my own fibre I think of her. She gives me permission! :)
This episode was super cool! I've tried several times to get into Jillian's classes when she is teaching at Ply. She is amazing and now that I know I can see more of her and her techniques, I can always look her up. Thank you for providing this guest speaker for the spinners that watch you!
Great interview! Thank you!
This was such a helpful episode! Loved listening to this conversation.
Thank you so much for this episode! I probably will never spin but I learned so much and will appreciate spinners even more and Gillian you are such a charming person. Wonderful to meet you. Such a lovely synergy between the two of you. Always more to learn. ❤️
Oh my gosh, my spinning journey started much the same way, with a horrible (for me) instructor lol. Now, I try to teach in that relaxed, let's do what you love way, too ❤ The only comment I would say differently is this - even if you're spinning a commercial prep, if it's wool you're still starting with a sheep 😁 Great episode, thank you!
♥️So good! Thank you.♥️
Great tutorial thank you. This makes brioche look like something I could try. Thank you.
I loved this episode so much! Thank you so much for making this possible! You two just made my day, really! I have been spinning on my e-spinner for a couple of years now, but I never bought any books on spinning until now! I ordered Jillian´s book and I am so exited to dive into it for playing around with my spinning! YAAAY ---- you two have been so lovely and positive, this is really heartwearming and so empowering! Sending hugs and greetings from germany! Mirjam
Love this book...gave me confidence to know I can try spinning. Great interview Thank You !!!!
I’m not a spinner but this episode was very interesting. Jillian kept me hooked to the iPad. Thank you
I really enjoyed this episode, I am an ultra newbie spinner but at present I only have a spindle. I really love Jillian's relaxed teaching style. I feel like I have learnt quite a bit in such a short time. Thanks to you both! 😁💕
Glad you enjoyed it!
This episode was simply the best! Love Jillian and her books and love her enthusiasm that she brings. I recently began keeping a spinning journal and have included a washed sample of my yarn as well as the just spun one. I have been spinning for years and have a pretty good idea of how most fibers will bloom but it’s always good to have a visual. And thank you so much Andrea! You have given me the confidence that I need to actually use my hand spun in my knitting. Your videos are so much appreciated.
This was so much fun listening to spinning talk.
Thank you both so much, this was really great 😊.
Sooooooo much info in such a positive way.... fantastic! Thx to both!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome 💚💚💚
What an amazing episode. Thank you for introducing Jillian Moreno and her wealth of knowledge!
I just love this episode and spinning to knitting. I have a new to me wheel. It is an antique wheel but is so smooth and has all the parts yay. So I can not wait to learn. Thank you for the positive motivation! I have only been knitting socks for a year but want to start with socks
OMG I love Jillain and her book: Big Girl Knits. It's SUCH a great book in teaching you how to work with your body. Happy to learn more about her and spinning! I love that no time is wasted
This was so fun to watch! You two have a great chemistry and the information and encouragement was wonderful!
Got out Yarnitecture and will reread before my new spinning wheel arrives. Lots of good practical advice. I too have some Corriedale. Mine is a lovely soft brown. I also have some merino roving from Australia or New Zealand that I bought with my sister around 1975, We split 35lbs. (I think). Figure it would be fine for getting my spinning fingers back after 20 years or more of not spinning.
That was so great - I don’t even spin and I loved it! I have to get her book for sure! Thanks so much!
Thank you so much!
Thanks, great info.
Wonderful wonderful interview!!! I’ve been renewing my spinning interest and this really helped boost my excitement and knowledge. And my Yarnitecture book just showed up.
When I got my 1st (and only) spinning wheel (2nd hand from facebook marketplace), the woman who sold it to me also gave me a large trashbag of unknown fiber. She had gotten this from the woman she had bought the wheel from. Because it was all I had on hand (there's not really anywhere near by to buy fiber from), knowing literally nothing, I tried to spin it. It was awful. It was just this giant fluff of fiber, and it didn't...FEEL like wool. So I decided to do a burn test. This fiber practically EXPLODED in fire. It was then that I knew this was probably some fiber fill from the big box store, probably like 100% polyester or acrylic. I immediately went and threw that whole bag in the trash. Sure, I could have saved it for pillow fillings or something, but with how incredibly flammable it was, I didn't even want it in the house. I went and bought some non-specific breed pencil roving from my yarn store when they opened up a couple days later and it was SO much better. So yea, echoing Andrea and Jillian's statements about not wasting your time on terrible fiber as a beginner.
I spun 1lb of Jacob when I was learning to just practice and practice. I am mostly a support spindle spinner and it was the practice I needed to have confidence spinning.
I enjoyed this video so much, I’m so happy you added spinning into you videos. I’m reading her book again for the 2nd time and by the way I bought the book after you showing it on one of your videos. Hope to take a class from her sometime.
AWESOME!
Thank you for this! Thank you for permission to spin what I want, how I want. And thank you for bringing joy to my day!
I bought myself the Schacht Ladybug this week and was so happy to see it spun on in this episode ❤️
I totally agree about corriedale, I got a big bag of blue to do a lot of my learning on.
Thank you! This episode was very helpful! I am at the point in my spinning journey where I have the mechanics down and now I can start to think about how to alter my tools to create the yarn I want to use. I am a very relaxed treadler (is that a word) so before I spin my next sock yarn, I am going to purchase a faster whorl. This is all information that I have learned before, but wasn’t ready to use until now. Thanks for the reminder!
Isn't it so fun to get to that next stage? That is where I am at too and it is very exciting to start looking at my yarns in a new way!
What a winner of an episode! It could have gone on for hours! Love you both from Nova Scotia.
Thank goodness a spinner that doesn't talk about ratios, wpi, and other things I never relate to. I enjoy spinnng where the fiber takes me. I worried for a while that I wasn't embracing the math, but then I realized that spinners that love that aspect of spinning are happy with that and I am not. I spin A LOT, and I change whorls, scotch tension and tredling all of the time without fear. The fiber tells me where it is happiest. My kromski was the best spinning wheel for me to learn on, and the others that have joined the herd have built on that. Oh btw, about singles breaking, I break them when I might put too much twist in a single, as well as too little. It goes both ways for me especially on a very fast setting of an espinner, like my Sprarrow.
Awesome timing. I'm about to start a spin for worsted yarn (new sweater). I was so overly concerned how to spin the Polworth ❤️ properly. More samples will be required. Thanks so much . I'm ready to start sampling now.
Great episode! This is such a positive approach and will really help when I get back to the wheel. Thank you! 😊
So glad!
Andrea, spinning sounds so much like using a thread sewing machine. Controlling the fabric, how fast or slow you treadle, keeping the stitches even. That’s what I learned to sew on and there is a lot going on but once you get the hang of it you are away to the races. Good luck with your spinning.
Thank you so much for doing this episode! It has been so helpful!
This video is SO exciting! I just finished reading Yarnitecture upon your recommendation. I am a super new (read two-month old) drop spinner, and I've been showing every phase of my first spin on my own channel. When folks ask how I learned I point them straight to the books because the side-by-side comparisons fascinated me and really helped to conceptualize the words.
❤️ this episode! I’m so happy that you have spinning along with knitting in your podcast. I’ve only been spinning since early pandemic but am addicted. I too love a book and visuals to learn. And then to have the author on with you 👏👏. There is so much to learn, though to look at it all as an adventure for each of us. And permission to do what we like, how we want, and create what gives us that big grin inside 😆😆. Also Andrea your teaching videos are the best. I’m willing to try any stitch you have in your arsenal. 😘
Great vlogcast to wake up to!! Loved it! I had Yarnitecture at one point but lent it out and never got it back. Can’t remember who had it🤷🏼♀️ thanks for a great episode. ❤️
I couldn’t love this more. Thank you!
What a great episode!
Amazing episode and so glad I have now been exposed to another like minded spinner! Thanks ladies ❤️
A surprise episode! Thanks
I loved this! I totally blame you (Andrea) for the drop spindle and fibre headed towards me in the mail right now. I’m banned from buying a wheel until I move into my new house in a year or so, where I’ll have actual space to have it set up, but I couldn’t wait to get into spinning after watching your videos!
I’m casting on another Harlow as I watch this, and am up to my first fleegle heel in my DRK Everyday sock for the knit and spin along. I’m going to go follow Jillian on all the platforms now!
(Also, let us know if you start a patreon too!!)
Two things! First, I now feel empowered to color-code or name my whorls, and not try to remember my ratios! Second, Andrea, are you from Northern Michigan? How far north? Petoskey-to-Mackinac girl here. Okay, three things-Jillian’s Patreon crowd is lovely. Just such a fun crew. I learn something wonderful every time we get together!
Hi Julie! I grew up in East Lansing :)
@@dreareneeknits oh far away and completely civilized! We are in Saugatuck now, but have to head north now and then to put feet on ground.
I loved this chat. I don’t spin but you never know one day… its super interesting anyway.
Thank you!
Thank you for all the information. I’m just getting started with spinning but currently only using a drop spindle. Is this book appropriate for drop spindle users or only on a wheel? I’m hoping in a few years to get a spinning wheel but it won’t be until my kids are older. Thanks.
where do you buy fiber