Spinning your own yarn for tapestry weaving means that you can control the structure and the color of the yarn in ways you’re unable to do with commercial yarns. The possibilities for spinning yarn to make images using tapestry are exciting and varied. This retreat offers you the expertise of two yarn lovers. Jillian Moreno is a master spinner, teacher, and author, editor at Ply Magazine, and orchestrator of the best Patreon on the planet! She teams up with master tapestry artist, teacher, and author, Rebecca Mezoff (second-best Patreon on the planet) to teach you how to make yarns for creating unique images in tapestry weaving.

This 5-night retreat gives us four full days of spinning and weaving time. We’ll spend time talking, experimenting and playing with color. We will shift value and make new colors with handcards and combs. We’ll work with plied marls, blend colors at the wheel with parallel drafting, and, of course, we will work with hand painted braids keeping colors clear and manipulating colors for the perfect accent for your tapestry weaving.

Rebecca will present tapestry techniques for blending and grading yarn. We will weave our handspun in small samples and some of you can start a tapestry if you have time.