Spin Camp 2026

SPIN Camp is March 19-21, 2026

Registration opens Saturday, Dec 6th 10am Central

Cost of Camp is $675 for all three days. Full payment is due upon registration.
We are happy to offer a payment plan if you need. Click the scholarship application below and request a payment plan!

Each day is 8:30am - 6pm and includes in-person instruction, fiber for classes, breakfast, lunch, and happy hour. Each participant will receive a spin camp tote bag. Lodging is not included. 

Spin Camp scholarships are available. We know that the registration price of camp is not economical for everyone. We are proud to offer several partial scholarships in 2026 for people who might not otherwise be able to join. We especially welcome applications from people who are often underrepresented in the fiber community. Your scholarship status will be private. Scholarship and payment plan application open from Nov 30th - Dec 3rd. 

Click Here for a scholarship application.

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What is SPIN Camp?

It's 3 full days of fiber fun with friends in Stillwater, Minnesota.

We'll be talking about all things wool, wheels, and spinning. 
Bring your traditional wheel or e-spinner. This is an opportunity to take your spinning to the next level! This is not a learn to spin event. Instruction will be directed to wheel spinning, so to get the most out of this retreat, it is best to be comfortable making yarn and plying on a wheel.

This year’s Camp will be three full days in-person with Jillian Moreno!

Jillian Moreno is the author of the best-selling book Yarnitecture: A Knitter’s Guide to Spinning: Building Exactly the Yarn You Want

She is passionate about investigating the structure of yarn and color, and using them in intentional ways in knitting, stitching and weaving. She explores, questions, and plays with fiber and wants to take as many people as possible along for the ride. 

Jillian believes all yarn is beautiful and useful and enthusiastically encourages her students to feel joy making and using their handspun. She believes in making yarn you like and want to use. She throws ‘must’ and ‘should’ out the window, though she does enjoy the fun that comes from ‘it depends’.

Combining technical and intuitive approaches to spinning, students gain confidence as well as solid skills to build any yarn they can dream of. Jillian teaches there is never only one way to make a yarn. Knowing and seeing the outcomes of a variety of spinning skills frees students to build unique and useful yarns to use with any project they have in mind.

In her classes Jillian students play and experiment with fibers, and color, gain an enthusiasm for sampling, and come to see that their own definition of beautiful, consistent or perfect yarn is the only one that matters.

We have three fiber packed days planned for camp!

Day 1 – Spinning with Intention

Morning: Default Yarn – Your Spinning Superpower

Your everyday spin is the yarn you make without thinking about it, your preferred prep and draft, resulting in your favorite yarn. It’s the yarn equivalent of your favorite jammies. In this session, we will examine your go-to yarn in detail from fiber, wheel set-up, prep, draft, ply, size, and finish. Once you understand your default yarn, you’ll be ready to tackle almost any yarn for any project. Through detailed examination, we’ll learn how to make choices and shift techniques to consistently create the yarns that pair perfectly with the projects you have in mind.

Afternoon: Twist – Exploring Size and Consistency

The key to spinning consistent yarn is learning to control twist. Twist is the heart of spinning: it’s what shapes fiber into yarn. Learning to manipulate twist is the key to creating a yarn that’s a consistent thickness, no matter the size. We will explore how wheel set-up affects twist, and will use control cards, ply back samples, and grist calculations to track our yarn. We will talk about how and why to control the amount of twist in your yarn. You will learn methods of changing the size of your yarn from lace to super bulky, and gain skills to keep your yarn consistent through a single braid or a whole project.

Day 2 – From Worsted to Woolen, Draft and Preparation

All Day

We will start the day exploring worsted drafting techniques. We’ll draft forward and back, to see the benefits of each direction, spin different preparations to see how fiber prep affects a worsted draft, and look at the characteristics and uses of worsted spun yarns. Then we’ll begin our woolen journey to create a lofty, cozy yarn. We’ll practice woolen drafting from short forward and backward drafts, spinning from the fold, short draw and long draw, keeping an eye on drafting zones and twist to manage size and consistency.

As we work on our woolen draft, we will spin several woolen and woolen-ish preparations: roving, sliver, rolags, batts, and top.  Each preparation spins with different amounts of loft and spinning them side by side will help you fine-tune your woolen yarns. Once we have woolen singles spun, we’ll ply, woolen-style, and see how adjustments for consistency can be made to woolen yarns when plying. Our day will end with a bit of finishing, comparing different methods to make our yarns bloom.

Day 3 – Playing With Color

Morning: Tint, Tone, and Shade

Tints, tones and shades are stealth colors. Often overlooked in favor of their bright cousins, they fill out the color wheel with their ethereal lights, earthy mid-tones and smoky darks. In this session, we will combine solid colors with black, white and grey to make spectacular tints, tones and shades. You may hand card, hand comb, parallel draft, or ply as your combination method. These in-between colors are the secret to bringing color combinations to life. Tints, tones and shades are the core of ombré and tonal colorways.

Afternoon: Braids – Mix it up

This session focuses on the fun of mixing and blending painted braids with other colors and other braids. We’ll explore how to choose colors that go together, what affects color in spinning, and how to avoid mud in your yarn. You’ll learn how to mix and blend colors in the ply and draft, and how to choose fibers that work well together. While you practice your mixing and blending, I’ll show you how to choose colors to turn up or turn down the brightness of a braid, the best way to stretch braids for projects. Finally, I show you how to sample braids for color, and how to use those samples as shortcuts for your future braid spinning.

What else is included:
All the fiber you need for each day's classes
Camp store with beautiful wool from some of our favorite farms and hand dyers, spinning notions and supplies, and much more.
Spin Camp Tote Bag
Continental breakfast, lunch, and snacks all 3 days.
Cocktail hour Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, one cocktail of your choice included each day.
Door prizes
Unlimited help from your awesome DKA Team

When:
Thursday, March 19th - Saturday, March 21st
Camp hours are 8:30am - 6pm each day.

Where:
The Lowell Inn - 102 2nd St N, Stillwater, MN 55082
The Event Center is right next to the parking ramp for easy access.
5 minute walk from Darn Knit Anyway.

Lodging is not included in the price of Spin Camp. The Lowell Inn has reserved a block of rooms for Spin Campers. Cost of a single room will be $150 + tax for Thursday night, and $200 + tax for the Friday and Saturday evening. To reserve your room, call the Lowell Inn at 651-439-1100