Learn to map and spin yarn scraps into new yarn

Here the students learn to map yarn residues and mix it with wool -and in this case local wool from a sheep farmer in Højer.

Do you want to play with colors, wool and the hand. In this workshop you will learn an ancient craft and create a new and modern expression that you can use in your knitting, crochet or weaving projects.

At the workshop you will be guided safely and confidently through all the processes from carding yarn and mixing it with the washed raw wool and then spinning it on the handle. Especially spinning on the hand requires practice and experience and you must therefore compare the process with any other craft — Practice makes a master. That's the way it is here, too. As a beginner, you will get the most beautiful uneven and rustic thread, perfect as it is, right for a single stripe or other detail in your knit.

When you make your own yarn, it's a play with colors, materials and techniques. The process is calm, immersion and flow. The result speaks for itself.

**Participants must bring: **

At the workshop, you need to bring slightly different yarn residues. It can be both cut threads or yarn keys. All yarn can be used, however, not cotton and mohair. There will also be already carded yarn residues that you can use.

**About the Educator: **

Rikke Tonnesen is the creator of Damegarn -a soft tribute to women's craftsmanship. Damegarn is colourful hand-spun yarn consisting of yarn residues and delicious wool from Danish sheep farmers.

Rikke was born and raised in Tønder and the marsh has made its mark on life and mind to that extent. She clearly remembers all the weekends when her parents took Rikke and her siblings on trips around the levees in the marshes. Nature was a big part of Rikke's childhood, but back then she didn't think much of either the plants, the birds, or the sheep and their wool. It was more about whether there was toasted chocolate in the lunch box and about getting home in time to watch the youth series on German television.

Rikke's parents loved the marsh. She even thought it was a bit boring and in the wind and rain on a bike it was downright a beast. The marsh has left its mark on Rikke and today she appreciates its beauty, rawness and tranquility. The wool came to her about four years ago when she stood in the stable of a sheep farmer and watched while the sheep were being sheared. Here it really dawned on Rikke how beautiful and amazing a material wool is and that most of this beautiful (g) wool was often sent to the incineration and therefore completely wasted. Since that day at the sheep farmer, Rikke has been working on processing and spinning the wool, as well as developing wool products. Every time she has the wool in her hands, she is fascinated by its texture, colors and beauty.

Rikke's greatest respect goes to all the women who through the ages have had the raw wool in their hands and patiently and persistently worked their way to a finished textile from warm socks to fine woven suits. No great-grandmother or grandmother has taught Rikke to work with wool or spin yarn, but she loves when she can pass on her knowledge and experience.