• On Demand

    This video is self-paced and is available to watch immediately after you enroll.

  • All Levels

    Great for beginning spinners and all other levels interested in exploring this technique.

  • Watch & Learn

    This video-only course will help you get a dose of spinning inspiration whenever you need it.

How many ways can you spin handdyed roving?

In 12 Ways to Spin Handpainted Top with Jillian Moreno, you’ll learn a dozen ways to play with color and gain more control over your yarn. Looking for a randomly colored skein that lets all the hues play together? Jillian shows you four ways to blend colors within a single braid of fiber. Like the colors just as they are? Find four ways to keep the colors in your yarn just as you bought them. Want to bring more than one colorway together in yarns that using? Learn to choose colorways that will look great together and combine them for yarns greater than the sum of their parts. 

In this video, you will learn: 

  • How to preserve the colors you fell in love with 
  • Ways to combine two or more different braids of fiber 
  • Techniques for controlling the flow of color in your yarn 
  • How to spin gradients, fractals, and self-striping yarns 

Make the most of your stash of handpainted top—and choose new braids with confidence! 

Meet Your Instructor

Jillian Moreno

Spinning Teacher, Author

Jillian Moreno is a spinning teacher and author whose work regularly appears in Spin Off magazine. She is the editor of the online magazine Knittyspin, and author of the best-selling spinning book Yarnitecture: A Knitter’s Guide to Spinning: Building Exactly the Yarn You Want.

Reviews

So Many Ideas!

“Jillian has the ability to show and explain this fabulous technique of working with braids. I have so many one of a kind braids and now I am itching to blend them! I love seeing how beautiful drafting 2 braids together and plying turns out! Thank you for this wonderful video!” - TINA JOLLYSCHMIDT

So helpful.

“Loved this. I have been spinning one colour yarn the past year, and now, FINALLY!, I think I'm ready to try some colour. Thanks so much!” - ELAINE GAULT

Great color inspiration!

“I really enjoyed this class. Jillian Moreno is an excellent and inspiring instructor. I can't wait to pull out some of my coveted braids and try these spinning and plying techniques!” - Kathryn Broege

Course curriculum

    1. 12 Ways to Spin Handpainted Top

About this course

  • $14.99
  • 1 lesson
  • 44 minutes of video content