Course curriculum

    1. Intro

    2. Before you start using your wheel

    3. How to deal with the flyer and hook

    4. Tips about threading

    5. Basics of tension

    6. Starting to spin

    7. Spinning the yarn

    8. More spinning tips

    9. Spinning raw fleece

    10. Once you filed your bobbin

    11. Niddy noddy

    12. Fixing the twis

    13. Too much twist

    14. Not enough twist

About this course

  • $16.00
  • 14 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

Learn to spin yarn

About this class

This is a step by step tutorial on how to spin yarn with a spinning wheel. Basics. The tutorial is divided into 11 videos between 1 min to 15 min each. 



You have a spinning wheel and fibre and you are not sure where to start? You planned to buy a wheel but you want to see how it looks like when you start spinning?


In this course I go straight to the how to spin, regardless of the wheel you have. Spinning could feel overwhelming at the beginning, but I assure you, it is very easy to make yarn.


All my courses are bilingual English-French

Tous mes cours sont bilingues Anglais-français



Vous avez un rouet et de la fibre, mais vous ne savez pas où commencer? Vous pensez acquérir un rouet mais vous voulez voir de quoi ça a l’air quand on commence à filer?


Dans ce cours je vais droit au but: comment filer, peu importe le rouet. Le filage au rouet peut paraître compliqué au début, mais je vous assure que c’est vraiment facile.


This class is available forever! you can rewatch the videos a zillions of times, skip the part you don't need, and I'm available to answer your questions right here.


Ce cours est disponible pour toujours! vous pouvez revisionner les videos des zillions de fois, sauter celles dont vous n'avez pas besoin, et je suis là pour répondre à vos questions.

Instructor(s)

Joyce Huard

Fibre Artist

I’m a 46 years old Canadian textile artist living in Quebec province. Of course I have always been a heavy crafter since my childhood. My maternal grand mother was doing all kind of needle work and she was a skilled seamstress with unlimited patience, and endless determination to run large projects. My paternal grand mother owned a sewing business for I few years when I was a child. I think my love for the yarns and textiles starts from there. Babysitters could easily forget I was there if I had a needle and some thread... When I went to the fashion school, we made a trip to a mill where they were making yarns and weaving tweeds. I always had a big love for wool, and heavy fabrics with texture. I became addicted to jackets and coats making, but hunting the perfect fabric was long and disappointing. I started to add yarns, fringes, and embroidery to my sewing projects. But I was not fully happy. When we went back to Canada, I started to included sweater pieces, hand knits and crochet to my clothes, mixed with fabrics. But I was still feeling unsatisfied. Finding the perfect yarns, or fabrics was impossible. Since my neighbors have a sheep farm, I had this idea to ask them to take the fleeces and try to make yarn, so I could create exactly what I need. My intention was also to weave my fabrics and try some felt. I had no idea at all in which adventure I was diving in...and no experience in hand spinning, felting or weaving whatsoever. So I saved my money and bought my kiwi wheel with my beloved giant bobbin. Then a carder...a loom, dyes, and you know the suite... After a very successful crowdfunding campaign that allowed me to buy new tools, I started to create content for my patrons on Patreon, by sharing live videos of my daily work, exclusive YouTubes, patterns and tutorials. I’m now very deep down the rabbit hole of fibre arts, and with my new studio now I could play with my sewing machines, the wheels, the loom, the dyes, and I have total control of what I’m creating, and a lot of fun. There is no words to describes the sentiment of satisfaction when you start from dirty smelly fleeces and end up with a colourful wearable piece of clothing. I recently created my stand alone website, www.mynoush.com, where you can find the links to my socials media’s and see my current work. Happy visit! Joyce