WHAT SUCCESS & GOING DEEP INTO RIGHT BRAIN LOOKs LIKE

SPINNING & DYEING YARN

BEGINNING 3-D ART

wool roving, coat hanger hooks, cake dyes,

microwave (to set the dyes with)

Learning how to spin your own yarn is an extremely difficult global skill to conquer.

But once there,

it can be relaxing and quite enjoyable.

Every year I teach this Unit,

and every year the kids struggle thru it.

But then one by one they have that ah-ha moment where it becomes fun,

and then they want to make more extra credit yarns for their weaving projects.

Above is junior Angelica Luza and below 8th grader Yusuf Karan.

Poor Yusuf had no idea I was taking his picture.

Adorable!

Next to him is senior Simran Ranjit

 who has finished hers and is dyeing it with a lovely shade of green.

Next we have 8th grader Alaa Melabeh spinning some extra credit hand dyed roving

donated to me by dear friend  Fiber Artist Lori Lawson of Capistrano Fiber Arts.

You can find her under Artists I Follow in the right side column of blog.

Below is a very happy senior,

Vivian Shi,

showing me her finished plied yarn.

Her next step will be to dye it her favorite color to be used in her next assignment,

the Dream Catcher.

Here are seniors Ricky Gallardo and Sophie Yang having way too much fun.

And below is 8th grader Annie Nguyen

 spinning up a batch of extra credit.

What a cutie!!

Best buddies juniors Kareema Mohamed and Kiana Hernandez

 are having a wonderful time bonding over their yarns and dyeing

while senior Lauren Gammage is helping Ricky undo some extra twist in his yarn

 before plying it up. 

All 34 of the kids were able to learn to spin,

and it was fun for me to see their ah-ha moments.

Way to hang in there young ones!