September  15/16, 2012
9:30am-4:30pm each day

Where:  Best Western Plus Dallas Hotel & Conference Center.  More info to come regarding registration for out of town guests at a special workshop rate!

What you get:  2 days of spinning workshop fun with Jacey Boggs in the lead!

I’m don’t need to read any more. I’m ready to register now.

More info about what the workshop will cover: The hardcore spinning portion covers many exciting textural plying techniques including anchored coils (we’ll cover thick and thin first), super coils, stacks, trap stacks, and the tornado. Focus will be on creating beautiful, unique, but ultimately stable and usable textured yarns.

The softcore spinning portion will start with basic corespinning and expand from there. Using a variety of materials including carded roving, textured batts, mohair locks, combed top, loose fiber, we’ll cover lots of unspun fiber corespinning techniques including some or all of basic corespinning, coreless corespinning, cocoons, beehives, tex ritter, and tailspinning.

These textured yarn techniques can be as tame or as outlandish as you choose but any way you spin it, they will improve your fiber and hand control and give you a deeper understanding of yarn structure.

What it will cost you: Full Price = $225 or less US, depending on cost of venue.  $25 deposit required with registration.  After you pay the $25 deposit, about 3 months before the workshop, you’ll receive a PayPal request for half or full payment.  If you pay in full, you’re all done.  If you pay half, then about 2 months before the workshop, you receive a request for the balance.  Full payment is due 3 weeks before the workshop.

Skills you need to have already:  You should:

Have a working relationship with your wheel

Have basic spinning skills (drafting, spinning a single, the mechanics of plying)

Stuff you need to bring:
–a wheel, any wheel, don’t worry about the size of your orifice, they all work! If you have a plying or bulky head and bobbins, bring them as well!

–Bobbins, you will need at least 3 but bring what you have.

–Lazy Kate or a bowl to use as a Lazy Kate.

–Niddy noddy if you have it, if not, there will be some floating around.

– 6 oz of fiber.  Jacey will bring the rest. What you bring is up to YOU!  Bring what you love, what you like, what you want to get rid of… You will be spinning at least 8 yarns, so don’t be afraid to bring different fibers or various colorways. Bring top, combed roving, batts, whatever. Mix it up so you have a choice.

- 2 spools of decorative thread (we’re using this as decoration so any thread will work, it need not be strong!)

Stuff Jacey plans to bring: Everything else including wonderful fibers from amazing fiber artists (carders and dyers)

Registering and refunds:  Deposits ($25) are NON-refundable. Other workshop fees that have been paid are refundable in full (minus $25 deposit) up to six weeks before workshop, after that any refund is limited to 50% of amounts paid (unless I can fill your spot, in which case it’s a full refund) and within 2 weeks of the workshop there is no refund unless I can fill your spot in the class.

Okay, I’ve read enough.  I’m ready to register now.

What other spinners are saying about Jacey and this workshop:

If you want to learn how to spin some of the coolest art yarn ever, Insubordiknit’s workshop is not to be missed. Jacey is a truly inspirational fiber artist and one of the most talented indie spinners to emerge from the art yarn scene. Her handspun is not only stunning and imaginative, but it is also structurally sound and functional. Jacey is a real technician when it comes to spinning, and her workshop is as much about the creative process as it is about solid technique. Workshop participants come away with an arsenal of methods to make amazing art yarn with functionality and structural integrity. Run, don’t walk, to sign up for this workshop. I’m glad I did!
— Steph Gorin, Loop

Jacey’s class gave me inspiration to let my imagination run wild. With the techniques learned and practiced during day one, I gained a creative edge to design knitting yarns that are fun to spin and work up. Stacks and coils rule! 
– Michael del Vecchio, author of Knitting with Balls

The class is amazing!It has made me see spinning in an entirely different light. Jacey, you are creative and amazing! Your class is priceless in terms of unleashing creativity, not to mention a joy ‘behind the wheel’!! Thanks for everything. I think you should charge more. While it is great to spend a fiber frenzied day and pass along your knowledge, it is your business. I would have paid more even before I had the pleasure of attending a class taught by you. Now that I’ve had that joy, I totally think we should have paid more! 
– (WTF fiber guild)

I attended Jacey Boggs’ two day spinning workshop at the Studio Yarn Shop in Kansas City, MO in June 2009. I began the workshop a bit nervous as Jacey if a fabulous spinner and we were to learn how to spin beehives, coils, faux boucle, super coils, halos, thick & thin, core spinning, auto-plying and felted objects. That menu of techniques both excited me and scared me, as I had been attempting to spin a perfect dk weight yarn that’s consistent. I had always wanted to learn to spin thick and thin, beehives and coils, and had seen several demos on how to do them, but I hadn’t been able to grasp the basics of the techniques. I realize now, that was because I hadn’t met Jacey yet.
– Cathy McQuitty-Dreiling

Jacey emphasizes how to make Art Yarns that have structural integrity. Both halves of my brain got a solid workout over those two days, because the workshop emphasized both technical and creative sides of producing Art Yarns. I kept wishing we had another day…Now here’s the really interesting thing. Even if one didn’t want to make Art Yarns, (which I do, because I’ve always been as interested in yarn construction and plying techniques as I have in spinning itself) you would still learn many new things in Jacey’s workshop. Your hands work in a completely different way at the wheel. You are working very close to the orifice and making a lot of quick direct and varied manipulations with your hands. At the same time your mind is making a lot of decisions about timing and placement of the manipulations. You develop another level of sensitivity as to what the wheel is doing to the fiber. It really is a fascinating approach to spinning and yarn construction.
–Jim Conti

I just had one of the best weekends of my life at Jacey Boggs’ Spinning Extravaganza (insert trumpets here). Holey Moley, it was Amazing in more senses than I think I even have! It was like a perfect vacation where you feel truly, truly alive and parts of your brain wake up like slumbering bears after a long hibernation. The workshop was just like that! First of all, Jacey is a wonderful teacher. She is organized, extremely knowledgeable, patient, caring, and yes! yes! yes! ENTERTAINING. The class structure allows you to absorb and really learn new and exciting spinning techniques and have a FANTASTIC time while you’re doing it. The class has had a major impact on my spinning skills and is a formidable foundation for creating my own unique art yarns. I would take another class with Jacey in a heartbeat. Sign me up, please! 
– Sharon Jue

Good grief! How could I miss something that so many people think is so great.  Now I’m REALLY ready to register!