Processing Our Sheep & Alpaca Wool into Yarn
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- During the colder months we process our sheep and alpaca wool and share with others our process. Working together with others has also helped us learn over the years. We hope you enjoy this video, please feel free to ask questions you may have about the process.
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00:00 Welcome to The 10 Acre Woods
01:21 Picking Wool
03:17 Washing Wool
13:23 Dry Picking Wool
15:18 Carding Wool
22:00 Spinning Wool into Yarn
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The TH-cam algorithm showed me a video on growing flax from seed and processing flax all the way to making a fabric on a loom and all by hand and now here I am… I’ve literally never searched for this. 😂 I’m a woodworker and woodturner but now I want to know more. I live in the mountains of north Georgia and have want sheep for the natural fiber. I’m glad I found this channel. I’ll be showing this to my wife for sure.
Always here for questions, What you know is so important and learning never ends. There is now a long list of things I will never have to buy again because of it. Can contact direct if need tara@anola.mb.ca
The same thing happened to me.
literally the same
@@littlebigplan yes
Saaaaaame! I started with flax, bamboo and stinging nettle and now I'm down a sheep/alpacaca asmr shearing wormhole. Thank u, universe?
"If there's bugs, burn it" best advice ever
My mother was a master weaver and would do some spinning, too. When I was a teenager I helped her karding with the karding paddles, but never too long - it was hard, hard work. My mother was a tiny but physically strong woman, because weaving at a loom (especially preparing the loom) is physically challenging.
Little and feisty, love it
My father was a fisherman and was a master baiter. He was a great contributor to the team
I have done needle work my entire life. Although I’m almost 70, I have a greater than 60 pound grip in both hands. Doctors are always amazed because they completely underestimate needlework as a form of exercise. I got the same amazed stares at my physical strength when younger. When you have 6 children, you are lifting all the time. The three middle children were only 18 months apart (adopted infant in the middle) so all day every day I was carrying 75 pounds or more of children 😂. So don’t start a fight with a housewife. 😂. You’ll lose.
What wonderful memories you must have of your Mother.
I really enjoyed this video, thank you!
I watched this video for the first time a while back. After crocheting for over 15 years, I got the urge to make my own yarn.
My local zoo has almost like a petting zoo at the front. It's very small. But they said they have 24 llamas and alpaca. (They sort of lumped them together, so idk how many of each). But I asked them what they do with the wool/fleeces when they sheer them. He said they throw them away. My heart hit the floor. He said "We've never met anyone who wants them." I said "I want them!!!" Their sheerer comes next week, and hopefully I can start this process I've spent over a year researching!
If I can do it, and make unable yarn, I want to make some things for the zoo to sell in their gift shop. I think having things made from the animals they have there would be really neat, and give the vistors a deeper connection to the zoo, and the animals they just saw!
Amazing, Way to go Teamwork
That little boy watching with a smile on his face the whole time, so cute!! So cool that y’all are passing on this info, this was really fun to watch 😊
Thanks so much!!
This video randomly popped up and I know nothing about this and I will probably never own any animals but i watched it from the beginning to the end. I really enjoyed it! You and your daughter are amazing teachers.
You are so kind
I'm glad you give classes and don't hurt the animals
I haven't spun for a few years, but I can say without bragging that I almost managed to spin actual thread, and not just yarn. I consistently made lace-weight or finer. It was a glorious hobby, and I really wish I could get a spinning wheel of my own so I could start it up again!
I kept a batch tiana did, and it is laceweight amazing skill and so satisfying.
Wow! So wonderful.
I love that you are a rescue & the animals actually "pay" for themselves with their wool! Great video, its a lot of work for sure! My grandmother had carding paddles, I think my sister ended up with them. I've seen a lot of wonderful things made with wool felting. From small realistic-looking felted animals/birds to felted cat caves. My cats love their cat cave! It looks like a giant hollow egg with an entrance & it holds up well to cat Scratching! There are vids on utube on making them & other felting vids. They're very interesting to watch also. 😁
Yes it's a win win
Think I’ll just buy my wool at the ‘just before’ you put it on the spinning wheel stage lol
Holy sheep! Thank you so much for sharing your process. I live in Australia and haven't been able to find anyone to teach me. My parents have just shorn their alpacas for the second time and we have a lot of bags of wool to make our way through. As a crocheter, I feel like you've just given me a valuable gift of knowledge and many more people will benefit from the blankets that I make. Many thanks!
Happy to help! if have any questions along the way can email me directly tara@anola.mb.ca Have fun.
You could totally teach yourself, I always spin alpaca wool dirty (in sheep it's called spinning in the grease) I find it spins alot easier this way
Love how you said holy sheep 🐑 ❤️
You responding to so many comments makes me happy. You're a kind and wonderful woman.
Thank you, we enjoy communicating with our community 😊
Thanks for this! I’ve had sheep for 3 years and never taken the time to process the wool. This was the first video i watched to finally figure it out. :)
Glad it was helpful! Always here if have questions
This was soooo interesting as someone growing up in urban areas, and not having much knowledge in what you do. The alpacas look sooo cute! ❣️
Glad you enjoyed it!
Loved this video. I lived with my friend and her family out in thr country. She had sheep, goats, alpaca, lamas, cats, dogs, peahens, ducks, geese. I love to knit and crochet so I had to experience how yarn was made. Oh Lord, the work. Feeding the animals, caring for sick animals, lambing , steering, cleaning thr wool, carding, dying. I will always love the experience but I prefer buying my yarn ready made. You have to be dedicated with lots of stamina to make your own yarn I still love to crochet Irish crochet and lace making is my specialty
So glad you enjoyed and Yes it is alot of work but so cool to learn. We have the handspun yarn for sale, and are waiting to get back a load we took in to get processed, wanted variety for our followers. we will have post when it is all set up for sale. The lace making takes talent
the instructor for this video is amazing c:
Awe shucks, thx
Yuppers… our forefathers worked hard! My father was raised on a farm so we all had to learn cows, chickens,pigs, ducks and gardening! It did help me through the years. I have great respect for our farmers.. they are our backbone to our country! 🥰💝
Well said!
A good source for carding equipment are festivals like the Rhinebeck Sheep and Wool Festival in NY in October. Lots of stuff from fleeces to looms and everything in between.
At 13:00 you said to keep the lanolin in the wool the last water bath should be cool water. So glad you said that! Lanolin protects the wool from absorbing dirt. It does the same thing when you've kniited a sweater with the lanolin still in the wool. When your sweater is used daily as is today with fishermen etc. it's the lanolin that keeps it from dirt and oil stains. When its washed it's like new! 😊
Antique over modern all day every day. That's my life's mission.
How lucky to have someone give you some of these fiber processing/art tools ! I would die of someone offered me a spinning wheel! It is crazy how these arts have become so rare to do by hand anymore.
Amazing to learn and share, bringing back the old methods has been very enlightening.
Hello from Ukraine 👋 It's so interesting for me your video 👍👍👍
Really interesting information!!! We really are spoiled these days! Processing the wool was such a time consuming process for families but more than that such a necessity!! It really is a shame that wool isn't used more. What a great renewable resource that has been replaced! Thank you for sharing this, you guys do a great job teaching skills that could be otherwise forgotten!!! Stay safe and have a great week!!!
Glad it was helpful! and love keeping it alive
I recently found that my childhood allergy to wool doesn't affect me anymore so I have opened myself to a world of new yarns! I love learning about where yarn is coming from and an image into the great people who create it!
I bought an Ashford (New Zealand) spinning wheel many years ago when I was hoping to spin the (English) Angora rabbit fur. However I found I was somewhat allergic to the fur (maybe due to the scratching of the rabbits' claws as I plucked the fur and being so fine I ended up inhaling stray fur! I was advised to abandon keeping the rabbits and so have never used my wheel. I have kept it as it is a beautiful piece of furniture. Alpacas have more recently come on the scene here in South Africa, so I may yet get to use my wheel!
@@The10AcreWoods I caught the Dawn part, but what is the name of the organic degreaser that you use?
The degreaser is called Thieves by Young Livingves
I have been binge watching The 10 Acre Woods for about 2 months now. I watch the wool processing videos repeatedly because I have self taught myself, mostly, how to process wool and spin it. I have learned a couple of things that I have not seen mentioned in your videos though so thought I would share. The main item is the difference between sheep wool and alpaca. Sheep wool holds together better because each strand has little barbs on it that hold it together where alpaca wool does not have these barbs. That is also why alpaca is softer usually then sheep wool. The down side is that Alpaca is not as elastic as sheep wool so if you knit or crochet something that is full alpaca get it wet or stretch it out it does not return to its original shape and size. It is quite all right to mix the two though by blending the wool or even plying a spool of Sheep with a spool of alpaca to get the advantages of both. Thanks so much for all the sharing you guys do of your little piece of heaven there in Manitoba. Every video I watch I have to wonder if maybe I could get adopted. I'm 64 but would love feeding the animals, loving on them and even mucking out barns and buildings. :)
Thank you so much for sharing , we love learning from experience. If your ever in the area let us know we can arrange something. Thanks for watching.
Alpaca doesn't cause as much "irritation" to some people who can't wear wool for the reason you mention; all those little "barbs" in sheep's wool. So alpaca is much better to wear near the skin; wicks moisture away, dries very quickly, and is just as warm as wool. When I did spinning, people told me that alpaca was difficult to spin, but I never found it so and I preferred the feel. Mixing it with silk singles was my favourite yarn to make.
When it comes to your sheep you might want to wash them say in a pond or basin of water (perhaps soapy water) as to wash out the bulk of the dung that’s stuck to the wool as well as help evict any bugs that are trying to make themselves at home in their wool first then shear them once the wool is completely dry. It’ll make it easier on the clippers once you start shearing.
Hi there, I’ve spent literally years learning what you’re teaching. You’re doing such an excellent job with your work. There’s so much information one has to take in and so much experience one has to gain I really admire that you’re sharing your craft and continuing to learn. That’s what it’s all about.
Awesome, thank you! We love sharing
Really enjoyed this video. I've never seen yarn spun my hand before. Thank you for sharing the class.
Glad it was helpful!
thanks its been 30 years i didn't see it. good to know that you are using different tools to finalize
You bet!
Glad you guys had a better audience this is time, everyone being respectful but still a very fun environment!
New one next week, should be one a year. smaller group this sat. going to focus on small batch start to finish
The dog by the window 🤣
I know I'm years late to this video, but just love that you open your house and experience to anyone so freely, hope you are all still doing great work out there!
We sure are, welcome
Veru interesting.
At 10:35 I’m glad she stopped you from grabbing the box. Before that you told her to stop mixing the alpaca wool with the water and you’d totally cut her off the way you did that. (In front of a crowd you could’ve said “Let me get you some more water for that”)
After that she looked really uncomfortable. Good to see that vibe change.
Apart from that this is a very informative video. Thank you all for that
❤️
At 21:56 I felt bad for my comment I placed above here.
You’re a great family.
I have worked in care and with abandoned children too long I think. 😅
That is also why I just bought some alpaca fleeces to get back to the basics of life.
So, thank you again
This is great! My husband and I are working to save up $ to buy property and start a homestead... It's been tough due to property and real estate prices skyrocketing. I'm keeping notes for the future! We'd love to have sheep for milk and wool, I love to crochet and knit so it'd be super helpful!
You can do it! If ever have questions let us know. Always love to help if we can
That little kid is so fascinated with this entire process. I bet he will grow up and maybe a knitter or crocheter one dad.
Yes we find alot of younger ones just love it. get to them when they are young.
this lady is really a good teacher, also could be an excellent interpreter in a museum abt
She's a natural teacher
I just love your kitchen 😍
I crochet (haven't used wool yet) and this is incredible to see. I definitely will be trying to buy from a small company after tax return season
Edit: these are clearly people who love their work, and it makes it so much more enjoyable
Wonderful!
I started buying yarn and wool for needle felting from a local craft store that sources local wool and dyes it themselves. I never looked back.
Most informative for those of us who may have wondered!
Thankyou!
Glad it was helpful!
Love the name of your farm.
22:47 the dog on the window staring at the camera I can’t 😂😂😂😂
Hi there. I loved your video, thank you. I felt so at home. I live in South Africa. My husband retired from his paid job 15 years ago and bought a small farm in rural Eastern Cape where he has some merino sheep and cattle. I have very recently retired from teaching high school math and am keen to learn how to process and add value to some of our wool. I love your at home approach to sharing what you are doing, and as you said, as you learn yourselves. You are doing a beautiful thing with your family.... and with that I include all the living creatures around you. Beautiful!! May God bless you all abundantly!! ❤️
Thank you and it is so much fun to learn. If ever need more info message me, always up for sharing info.
@@The10AcreWoods Thank you so much!
I'm so glad to have found your channel wish I lived closer... I'd love to volunteer to help!! I remember my grandma an her wheels an paddles an comb's an so so much more. She made lace so she really worked the wool... I miss lanolin an rose oil Gran made... She was a real gem!! Much like your family. Your all gems!! ✌🏼💗😊
That is awesome! We love keeping things alive from our history and sharing with others, many of the visitors have similar reactions.
The ladies of 10 Acre woods are looking fine and so informative ... Thank you
Thank you very much appreciated.
As a knitter I’ve seen bits and pieces of this process for some years, but never start to finish! This was awesome. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
A perfect way to describe felting would be like making paper.
Love the video. Wow really makes me think about the yarn I use to crochet with.
Yes New appreciation for sure.
That's why wool yarn is more expensive than acyrlic.
Interesting. Fascinating. I have seen sheep & alpaca shorn and always wondered what the next step was after that. I just learned how to knit many years ago & fell in love with a specialty wool yarn that is famous for its gorgeous dyed colors in each skein. I believe it's from New York. Very expensive & now I understand why!
Beautiful creatures sheep, alpaca are. We are so blessed.
You all do wonderful work rescuing these precious creatures.🥰
Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is the first time I have seen any process like this taking place. Very educational. Gracias
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome!
I used to be a knitting addict, so I opened a yarn store back a while ago. I did so much felting for customers (felted bags were big back then). When I was a teenager in Hungary we did weaving with my Mom, that was fun also, especially because that was the only craft we enjoyed together.
I still have tons of wool from my shop, I even love to go trough them once in a while, just to adore them. So I'm also a yarn addict too, there I said it, admitted it! Now I could start my healing process and start making some cool project.
Great lesson on processing wool! I love it! Thank you so much!
We can start a support group for wool addiction. Thing is i do not want to recover, LOVE IT. I am always sorting as well. Mine Mine Mine
@@The10AcreWoods 😂🤣
I named my shop Knitherapy.😍
What state are you in? I love what you do!
We are in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada or Winterpeg up North as known from some southerners. LOL Thank You we love sharing
@@The10AcreWoods only a few 12 hundred miles away from me
Must be beautiful there.
Hello Saph Stitched sent me over.
Welcome
Love watching these in my free time.
Thank you! That was incredible. I watch sandy Brock making dryer balls but had know idea what a process it is to clean the wool at home. My grams was amazing and crocheting unfortunately I never could get the hang of it. I so enjoyed this vlog! I'm a big fan of all your vlogs
We also watch her channel, yes alot if doing old school.
I watch Sandi Brock too! I can crochet a little bit but haven't done it in years, i draw and repaint items and make macrame items or i did when I was happy. Can't create when I'm not.
I find this so nice!!!
I love watching this. I got two Aran sweaters in ireland, so nice soft and warm. And when they get wet they smell like sheep!!! I find this so nice
Me three! Love watching Sandy Brock everyday. Your video is interesting! I learn that this is days in process just to do this.
Thanks so much for sharing the knowledge, oh how i wish i could meet someone who knew the trade to teach and give away their tools....I'm suffering so much bc i can no longer tolerate these regular jobs. I was made for hands on stuff as such.
Learn your passion and go with it, work will never feel like work again
I have always wondered how wool was treated etc and found the programmed of the shearing and this one very interesting. It seems like hard work but without people like yourselves we would never have had wool and the follow up etc. thank you for sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
This is great! Reminds me on days with grandma' ,peace for her soul, and my childhood. She did all this, lived in a village, farm.
The kids love learning and the seniors love to watch them learn.
Try a SpinOlution wheel they at the best
Absolutely love this. I do medieval reenactment and so many of our members do Sheep to shawl demos. I also have Psoriasis and my heart is with you on that as well. Lanolin and Coconut oil are my go to as well.
Wonderful!
Very interesting video. I appreciate your time in showing the processing of fleece.♥️🇦🇺
This makes me appreciate all my yarn so much more! Thank you for the knowledge ❤
You are just fantastic! Very good video, very instructive... will watch more for sure ! Bravo!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I enjoyed watching your process. I do not do anything like this but crochet with the end result. Thank you for sharing this.
You are so welcome!
What a great video and class!!! So helpful thanks!
You are very welcome
Personally, I've only ever worked with wool on drop spindles, but I dreamed of having a wool wheel when I was younger. Just found your channel and watched this video. Brought back all those old dreams. Thanks so much for sharing.
You are very welcome, happy to hear you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching!
Tara!
You did a GREAT JOB!!!
Thank you
Luv seeing a teaching of a class. Thank you again for the Great 🎥:)
Glad you enjoy it!
Good luck, I love this job
Very interesting. Thank you 🙂
I loved watching this! When you were talking about drying everything out in the end, I was reminded of videos I’ve watched of professional (often wool) rug cleaning. When they have a big batch to dry, they set up dehumidifiers. This significantly cuts down their drying times. Just a respectful idea.
Glad you liked it!! Yes we have amazing system on the house that promotes airflow and low humidty for sure helps with dry time.
Very inlighting😊 and 😎
I just traded 2 tubs of honey for a motorized carder large like yours it's great. Great Video
That is awesome!
Love knowing where things come from! Got an Alpaca sweater I love to wear; incredibly comfortable and relatively easy to clean. Worth every penny! ^^
I used to do spinning in my youth. Fond memories.
I wanna try this.
My mum made me a felted hat. Best ever when its wet out, the water does not penetrate and just rolls of. Its is a warm hat . Looks funny but I don't care as I cannot see it while i'm wearing it!!
Best hat ever i bet
They make it look so easy to process the wool.
It is very easy just time consuming
Wow. Thank you so much for sharing, very informative and lovely to see the animals. Also my ancestors moved from the uk to Manitoba 😊😘👍
Very welcome we love sharing, Tell them we are glad to have them.
I have always wanted to know how this process worked! Thank you for sharing this very educational video! Yo! I admire the self sustaining practices staying alive. This was very fun.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love to knit and crochet but holy cow you guys are ambitious that's a lot of work it gives me a whole new appreciation the natural fibers that come from animals and for the people that get it from there to my needles and hooks
So proud when we can set someone up with some home products, animals and humans working together.
Wow, thank you for all the info, time and effort you take to show the process of making yarn and even thread.
You are so welcome!
Hey Mark thank you for showing us how you process wool
Always love sharing
It's weird that I've never searched up anything like what you're doing, but it's something I'd like to do in the future! I'm a crocheter, and have made several clothes and accessories from yarn, but want to take it a step further and make my own yarn from animals I've raised.
It would be a dream to own a small farm and be as self sufficient as possible!
Learning new things every day and love it
You folks are just great. Thanks. So much work. So beautiful.
It was interesting but confusing at same time. There is a lot that goes into this project. TY
The more you do it, the less thinking involved, lol becomes a peaceful pasttime
Love your video.
Cool!
Enjoying the beautiful black cat; strolling through the group & sitting so elegently!!!
Can't imagine how you can keep the cat off of the drying wool.
A great video; lived the explanations! Many thanks!
LOL They do not like the fam, so I make sure it hits the bottom shelves so they stay off
Awesomeness
Very interesting.
Wow! I like to crochet and my niece is an amazing knitter but I've never used alpaca always acrylic or cotton and I've always wanted to learn how to process like this I knew a lady who did but never taught classes she had the spinning wheel and a lot of items you have. I really like your video.
Wonderful!
Love that you use a shaklee product to decrease.
WOW!! Super video with lots of information. Thanks for doing what you do with the animals and the wool.
Our pleasure!
Wow just stumbled upon this video and the lady who’s guiding the tour seems very friendly and knowledgeable. I hope to go there for a tour one day.
I hope so too!
Thank you so much.✌💕
Love your presentation. Brings back memories of my friends family sheep ranch. And shearing / fleece cleaning day. I would help my friends Back in the late 70's 👍✌😊.
LOL ... They used DAWN soap ( added the soap to the hot water first not onto the wool ) in a 50 gallon barrel set up on a stand with a big turkey fryer propane burner underneath. They used a clean livestock watering trough for the wool shearings. The barrel had a ball valve set in the bottom bung. So they could just run a hose right into the wool trough.
Awesome, might have to try in summer outside
Loving this video showing what goes into working a fleece! It’s my favorite part of the fiber arts and hard to justify making a video of picking out poop and washing but you made it work! My picker is named Moira after the Schitts Creek character 😂
I love the fect that is a goose chilling with the sheep xD
Thank you so much for sharing , very informative.
Glad it was helpful!
This is a big manual Job, Thank you for still doing this in 2022. I love farmers and being on the farm. Courage
Thank you all for sharing. I’ve really learned a lot from this video
Our pleasure!
just watched your wonderful video Processing Our Sheep & Alpaca Wool into yarn. It was so good I wished I was there with you all.
I crochet and weave I would love to try spinning. The work on the wool from start to ready to use is very interesting washing drying ect. hard work but well worth doing. Then to find out the animals are rescue made it even better. thank you for sharing. Sue
Awesome, there is another one coming out this week on wool processing. Yep made with lots of LOVE for sure.
Very interesting