A free workshop for intermediate and advanced spinners that will teach you the secret to cultivating a happy and productive spinning practice and mastering the craft on your own terms

From Good Spinning to Great Spinning

As a seasoned spinner, you should be creating yarns you adore and using them to make cloth you cherish. But if you’re like most intermediate and advanced spinners we know, you’re spinning routine may have become stale, repetitive, or boring. Or worse, you may have stopped spinning altogether.

In this free workshop, you’ll learn:

  • How Good Spinners Become Great

    Learn what good spinners do—consistently—to make building their yarn-making skills and knowledge easy and fun

  • How to Challenge Yourself

    Learn an easy step-by-step method that will help you build new skills and consolidate more established ones

  • How to Avoid Common Roadblocks

    Learn about where you’re likely to get hung up on your journey, and how you can keep moving forward to great spinning

Praise from Past Students

  • Thank you, thank you, thank you for taking the time and energy to create this video series. For many of the points you covered in the first lesson I found myself saying, Yep, that’s me! And then was so excited that I am not the only one feeling/doing those things and that someone who is farther down the road than me is willing to help make the path clearer❣️

    Rhonda D.

  • I love the very upbeat encouragement. Thank you! I hope to be making yarn from my own sheep and knitting it into ganseys for my loved ones. My yarn will be intentionally spun and I will have figured out how to have plied yarn that is not lopsided!

    Kris P.

  • As an educator I want to say I appreciate that you are approaching this as a curriculum! I have thought for a long time that something like this would be a great addition to the craft world.

    Catherine K.

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Your Instructor

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.