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Wool to Play With
Sat Jul 10 2010

A friend from work has kids who are involved with 4-H and sheep.

(somewhere in there is an off color joke)

Go back to Yetzirah's diary (), I'm trying to go somewhere with this.

So, she was telling me about after shearing, they just threw away the wool as there wasn't really enough to do anything with. This is when I told her about #1 and his interest in knitting and wanting to learn to spin wool into yarn.

We struck a deal.

After her kids shear the sheep, she would mail me the wool, all I have to do is pay postage. BONUS!

So, we now have a good sized box full of wool. We are looking online to try to figure out how to get it from where it is now, raw fairly well cleaned wool, to yarn.

I know a few of you out there are familiar with this process so I'm hoping you can point me to some good websites.

Oh, #1 also asks if it's easier to dye the wool before, or after spinning it?

When I find my camera I'll see about posting some pictures of it in here.

(and how are you going to post pictures in here cupcake?)

I said get out of here ()!

I also need to re-up my premium membership that lasped a while ago and I just never got to it.

1 Comment
  • From:
    Yetzirah (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Jul 11 2010
    ( ) is grounded. Gadding about without my permission. The cad.

    Dye your wool after spinning. Much easier.

    I have a friend who washes her fleeces in the washing machine. NO AGITATION!

    Fill machine, put in fleece with liquid soap. Shampoo? Soak. An hour or more?
    Spin. Fill again. Soak. Spin. Repeat soak and spin till the water is pretty clear. You can use warm water. I would not spin the daylights out of it, just get most of the water out.

    This is MUCH better than the bathtub method we used in my opinion.

    Check this out on line if you want to. I never looked it up, I just was told this is the way she does it. Remember not to agitate.