This is a remastered version of Patsy's beloved video from 2014. The video content remains the same, but your download features updated resources. 

Perhaps you’re in love with a specific millspun yarn, but it’s discontinued or unavailable in the color you want. Or curiosity has gotten the better of you, and you simply want to figure out how a favorite yarn is made!

After carefully analyzing why her handspun yarns didn’t look like the millspun she was trying to replicate, master spinner Patsy Zawistoski came up with an easy, ingenious method for analyzing commercial yarns and reproducing them with handspinning, and she’s here to share it with you today. 

In Make THAT Yarn You'll Learn:

• Which millspun yarns you can and can't reproduce with handspinning
• How to make your own simple, take-anywhere tool for analyzing yarns
• How to deconstruct a yarn to determine its twist and grist
• How to adjust your spinning wheel and drafting to match your desired yarn, without having to get too technical
• The secret of why handspun yarn is often heavier than millspun—and a clever trick for fixing this common issue
• How to reproduce almost any commercial yarn
  

Whether you’re a new spinner or have been spinning for years, this video will transform the way you approach spinning!

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Supplies and equipment:

• Spinning wheel
• 2 sheets of cardstock and a printer for making your templates
• A small sample of the yarn you wish to reproduce (10 yards is more than enough!)
• Fiber
• Paperclips
• Ruler 
• Pen and paper or a notetaking app for recording your findings
  

Prerequisites:

To learn this technique, you need only basic spinning skills and the ability to make a two-ply yarn. 

Included in the video download:

• 85 minutes of video instruction
• Workbook
• Magic decoder template
• Sample card template

Patsy Sue Zawistoski is an internationally known teacher and lecturer who loves to help spinners turn all manner of fleece and fiber into yarns, from heirloom to contemporary styles. She holds a Master-level Certificate of Excellence (COE) in Handspinning from the Handweavers Guild of America. Her innovative COE topic was spinning novelty yarns for use as warps in weaving, and she continues to explore the “What if?” questions of technique, fiber, and yarn structure, pushing the boundaries of handspinning for herself and her students.