The beginning steps to working with wool, as experienced by best friends Anita and Alice.


     
Step 1: Get sheep. : )
 





Step 2: Keep back a portion of wool from shearing day.
 
 
 




Step 3: Wash your wool in hot water along with about a cup of detergent. (You may do this outside if you wish, but it was several degrees below zero on this particular day.)


 


Step 4: When rinsing, we suggest keeping your rinse water temp the same as your washing water temp. As you might end up with felted wool otherwise.

 



Step 5: To dry, we stuffed our wool into a laundry bag, tossed it in the washing machine, and put it on the spin cycle. It then made its way to our wool basket!
 
 



Step 6: Next we use hand cards to straighten the wool fibers and make it soft and fluffy.
 
 



Step 7: Spin! We bought a Peacock spinning wheel this year and it has served us well.




                                 Wool        Carded wool (Roving)     Yarn
 
 
 
 
    Anita Pearl