Ditch the overwhelm and get clear on exactly what you should focus on right now to improve your spinning and make more yarns you love

A Clear Path to Great Spinning

You want to make your own yarn.

And you’ve picked a great time to learn to spin. Right now is the best time in history to be a spinner. Never before have spinners had access to the enormous range of excellent tools and high-quality materials that we have at our fingertips.

But with all those possibilities come choices. What tool will you use to spin? Which fiber is best to start with? And who can you trust to give you truly useful advice in a form that you can access and understand?

As an aspiring spinner, you should be spending your spinning time making yarn you love and can’t wait to use. But if you’re like most of the new and self-taught spinners we know, you’re probably experiencing decision fatigue and feeling uncertain about how to move past the lumpy-bumpy “art” yarn stage and toward spinning with ease, enjoying the process, and feeling proud of your yarn.

In this workshop, you’ll learn

  • About the Journey

    Learn about the stages you’ll travel through on your way to becoming a truly skilled spinner, and what to focus on in each stage

  • How to Identify the Gaps

    You’ll fix the problem of “not knowing what you don’t know,” by learning to see spinning as a body of skills and knowledge that can be broken down and tackled one by one

  • The Building Blocks of Yarn

    Learn about the building blocks of yarn, so you can make more intentional choices to get the yarn you want

  • To Dream Big

    You’ll gain the confidence to dream big as a spinner, because you’ll understand exactly what’s entailed in making those dreams a reality

Praise from Past Students

  • Thank you, Sasha for this informative, warm and encouraging video on deepening my spinning journey. So far my journey has taken me through various bits and pieces, classes and videos, magazine articles and books, leaving me with some experience, some tools and techniques, but mostly feeling frustrated and in a rut! You have offered a plan and map that sounds like it will take me where I most want to go – on the path to spinning with confidence the yarn I want to make with the wool I love!

    Rachel K.

  • Thank you so much for this video, I had almost given up spinning after about 20 years of dragging my wheels out only to keep making the same kind of yarn every time however hard I tried to make something different…you have described my situation completely.

    Karen L.

  • Thank you, Sasha, for helping me feel that there may actually be progress in the future of my spinning. I've been spinning for 38 years and still spin basically the same yarn as I did during my first year! Consistency is my main bear--ask me for thick and thin, and I'm your gal! So, I think that learning to pre-draft properly so that I can draft a consistent amount of fiber to produce a consistent yarn is where I am as far as the nine pillars are concerned. That puts me in the commitment to growth stage of my journey. I'm excited to learn more.

    Gretchen K.

Register for A Clear Path to Great Spinning

And learn how you can make more yarns you love!

Sasha Torres, a recognized expert in hand spinning, boasts a PhD from Cornell University and almost four decades of teaching adult learners as a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario and as a former faculty member at esteemed institutions such as Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, and Johns Hopkins. Founder of Sheepspot, she has spent over a decade in the fiber arts business, excelling as both a spinning teacher and fiber dyer. In addition to her scholarly contributions, which include a book, an anthology of scholarly articles, and numerous articles in academic journals, Sasha's impact extends to broader audiences through her writings in Ply Magazine and the two spinning podcasts she’s created and hosted, The SpinDoctor Podcast and The Sheepspot Podcast, which together have amassed over 200K downloads. Sasha's innovative approach to spinning education is encapsulated in The Spinner's Journey™ and Pillars of Skillful Spinning™ frameworks, a comprehensive curriculum guiding students from confusion and frustration to the joy of consistently creating yarns they love. Her branded methodology ensures spinners of all levels find satisfaction in crafting yarn they genuinely adore.