The KZread 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.

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

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

@joselliott6

Жыл бұрын

The same thing happened to me.

@littlebigplan

Жыл бұрын

literally the same

@adrianirimescu988

Жыл бұрын

@@littlebigplan yes

@MrCasensitiveboi

Жыл бұрын

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.

@The10AcreWoods

2 жыл бұрын

Little and feisty, love it

@keithlewis8238

Жыл бұрын

My father was a fisherman and was a master baiter. He was a great contributor to the team

@JSCRocketScientist

Жыл бұрын

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.

@SeattleDonna206

Жыл бұрын

What wonderful memories you must have of your Mother.

@lisas.522

Жыл бұрын

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!

@The10AcreWoods

Ай бұрын

Amazing, Way to go Teamwork

@crowsong8097

5 сағат бұрын

Hey, how did it go with the fleeces? I am so curious!

@deanwinchesterinthedarktower

5 сағат бұрын

@@crowsong8097 I'm picking them up this Friday! (The sheerer hurt her back, and the trimming got delayed!)

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 😊

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!!

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!

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

I kept a batch tiana did, and it is laceweight amazing skill and so satisfying.

@patriciajrs46

7 ай бұрын

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. 😁

@romystumpy1197

Жыл бұрын

Yes it's a win win

@mn2mx563

Жыл бұрын

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!

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Happy to help! if have any questions along the way can email me directly tara@anola.mb.ca Have fun.

@Silverstreamhomecrafts

Жыл бұрын

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

@ashtoncowsert8181

Жыл бұрын

Love how you said holy sheep 🐑 ❤️

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! 😊

I'm glad you give classes and don't hurt the animals

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.

@The10AcreWoods

19 күн бұрын

You are so kind

Veru interesting.

You responding to so many comments makes me happy. You're a kind and wonderful woman.

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, we enjoy communicating with our community 😊

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. :)

@The10AcreWoods

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Kayenne54

Жыл бұрын

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.

@d0lph1n63

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

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

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! 🥰💝

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Well said!

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! ❣️

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

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.

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!!!

@The10AcreWoods

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! and love keeping it alive

@kittenscrochetsetsy1294

Жыл бұрын

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!

@barryandjackypowell8239

Жыл бұрын

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!

@terryulmer969

Жыл бұрын

@@The10AcreWoods I caught the Dawn part, but what is the name of the organic degreaser that you use?

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

The degreaser is called Thieves by Young Livingves

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

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. :)

@The10AcreWoods

8 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Always here if have questions

Glad you guys had a better audience this is time, everyone being respectful but still a very fun environment!

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

New one next week, should be one a year. smaller group this sat. going to focus on small batch start to finish

Hello from Ukraine 👋 It's so interesting for me your video 👍👍👍

Antique over modern all day every day. That's my life's mission.

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.

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you! We love sharing

the instructor for this video is amazing c:

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Awe shucks, thx

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.

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Amazing to learn and share, bringing back the old methods has been very enlightening.

Love the name of your farm.

this lady is really a good teacher, also could be an excellent interpreter in a museum abt

thanks its been 30 years i didn't see it. good to know that you are using different tools to finalize

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

You bet!

I just love your kitchen 😍

She's a natural teacher

Awesomeness

Most informative for those of us who may have wondered! Thankyou!

@The10AcreWoods

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Awesome

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!

@The10AcreWoods

4 ай бұрын

You can do it! If ever have questions let us know. Always love to help if we can

This makes me appreciate all my yarn so much more! Thank you for the knowledge ❤

Really enjoyed this video. I've never seen yarn spun my hand before. Thank you for sharing the class.

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

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

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

@Kororocket

Жыл бұрын

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.

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!

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Love watching these in my free time.

Very interesting video. I appreciate your time in showing the processing of fleece.♥️🇦🇺

Thank you!

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

As a knitter I’ve seen bits and pieces of this process for some years, but never start to finish! This was awesome. Thanks!

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Love the video. Wow really makes me think about the yarn I use to crochet with.

@The10AcreWoods

2 жыл бұрын

Yes New appreciation for sure.

@gailplacko3197

2 жыл бұрын

That's why wool yarn is more expensive than acyrlic.

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!! ✌🏼💗😊

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

That is awesome! We love keeping things alive from our history and sharing with others, many of the visitors have similar reactions.

Good luck, I love this job

Very interesting. Thank you 🙂

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.

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Learn your passion and go with it, work will never feel like work again

The ladies of 10 Acre woods are looking fine and so informative ... Thank you

@The10AcreWoods

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much appreciated.

I wanna try this.

A perfect way to describe felting would be like making paper.

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!! ❤️

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Thank you and it is so much fun to learn. If ever need more info message me, always up for sharing info.

@geraldinedewit6090

Жыл бұрын

@@The10AcreWoods Thank you so much!

They make it look so easy to process the wool.

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

It is very easy just time consuming

Try a SpinOlution wheel they at the best

Love that you use a shaklee product to decrease.

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!

@The10AcreWoods

6 ай бұрын

We sure are, welcome

That little kid is so fascinated with this entire process. I bet he will grow up and maybe a knitter or crocheter one dad.

@The10AcreWoods

10 ай бұрын

Yes we find alot of younger ones just love it. get to them when they are young.

I used to do spinning in my youth. Fond memories.

Tara! You did a GREAT JOB!!!

@The10AcreWoods

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Very interesting.

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.

@The10AcreWoods

4 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Very inlighting😊 and 😎

Luv seeing a teaching of a class. Thank you again for the Great 🎥:)

@The10AcreWoods

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

I love how the child is so interested in everything going on. There's still some hope left

Now I wanna knit, great

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.

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

The dog by the window 🤣

You are just fantastic! Very good video, very instructive... will watch more for sure ! Bravo!

@The10AcreWoods

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Love your video.

Hey Mark thank you for showing us how you process wool

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Always love sharing

Wow, thank you for all the info, time and effort you take to show the process of making yarn and even thread.

@The10AcreWoods

2 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

Love knowing where things come from! Got an Alpaca sweater I love to wear; incredibly comfortable and relatively easy to clean. Worth every penny! ^^

Graciassss

WOW!! Super video with lots of information. Thanks for doing what you do with the animals and the wool.

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

Thank you so much for the class, wish I was closer to come to your classes. Always been my dream to do spinning, was just learning from my Grandma and she pass away, would love to learn, in her love for the art.

So great!!! Thank you!

@The10AcreWoods

11 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Very interesting

You folks are just great. Thanks. So much work. So beautiful.

Thank you all for sharing. I’ve really learned a lot from this video

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

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

@The10AcreWoods

2 жыл бұрын

We also watch her channel, yes alot if doing old school.

@ZandiTx13

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@susannorman4476

2 жыл бұрын

I find this so nice!!!

@susannorman4476

2 жыл бұрын

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

@jsharik2466

Жыл бұрын

Me three! Love watching Sandy Brock everyday. Your video is interesting! I learn that this is days in process just to do this.

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.

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

The kids love learning and the seniors love to watch them learn.

This is the first time I have seen any process like this taking place. Very educational. Gracias

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

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.

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Wow. Thank you so much for sharing, very informative and lovely to see the animals. Also my ancestors moved from the uk to Manitoba 😊😘👍

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Very welcome we love sharing, Tell them we are glad to have them.

This is amazing. The whole process is such hard work. I've never even thought about doing anything like this. I'm so grateful there are lovely people like you that are teaching it and doing it. How we take so many things for granted. Thank you

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, it's wonderful to hear you enjoyed the video!

This was super wholesome. I really enjoyed it

This is a big manual Job, Thank you for still doing this in 2022. I love farmers and being on the farm. Courage

I absolutely love your videos, family and everything you do! Thank you for all these awesome tutorials! ❤

WOW, that was incredibly educational, thank you!

@The10AcreWoods

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed, helps to get feedback.

Great video.We do spinning with something similar to the drop spindle you showed, but a lot smaller than that. The technique is the spindle actually dropping or suspended down and the wool being pinched and spun very very fine and wrapped around the spindle. To make two ply we take two full spindles and spin both the single ply together on a third spindle.

@The10AcreWoods

7 ай бұрын

Great tip!

This is wonderful ❤️ thabk you for sharing.

@The10AcreWoods

10 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

I enjoyed watching your process. I do not do anything like this but crochet with the end result. Thank you for sharing this.

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

This was amazing! It felt like I was actually there for the class. So engaging and so full of info, thank you!

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, happy to hear you enjoyed the video 😊

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.

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome, happy to hear you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching!

I like this video

What a great video and class!!! So helpful thanks!

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome

What great teachers!

@The10AcreWoods

Жыл бұрын

appreciate it.

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.

@The10AcreWoods

9 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!! Yes we have amazing system on the house that promotes airflow and low humidty for sure helps with dry time.

It was interesting but confusing at same time. There is a lot that goes into this project. TY

@The10AcreWoods

11 ай бұрын

The more you do it, the less thinking involved, lol becomes a peaceful pasttime