Processing Raw Sheep Wool Into Yarn-Minimal or NO TOOLS! Raw Fleece Into Yarn. 

I'm going to a friend's sheep farm in 2 days to help with shearing, I'm so excited! I'm getting "paid" for my volunteering with fresh fleece, hooray!!

Thank you for the memory of welcome back kottar

Yes, because of you, I have decided to dive into raw fleeces! Not just 1, but 4. Lol. Once I washed and started spinning, my eyes opened up. There is no commercially processed fibre that can resemble what I have. Thank you for showing me how to do this. BTW, I got a Jacob, finn/gotland, shetland, and teeswater fleeces

when i was a kid, my mum used to only spin from flicked locks. i thought it was the only way to spin yarn. but i used to help her flick them. which was so much fun

“Ooooh ooooh oooohhhhh Mr Kotter!!!….” //waves arm around wildly// 😂😂😂

I'm the right age for Welcome Back lol. Sounds like I clean fleece pretty much like you do, old tub included. I like to flick and pile it up and card into fluff or comb into roving. Clouds give it so much squish/fluff but I card for that. I'm familiar with on top of things lol...right now I'm on top of my fleece which means the quilting is on the back burner along with my dishes, HA HA HA,

I'm a 21yr Australian and just bought my first fleece! So excited to get started processing raw wool and then spinning when it arrives! I bought some white merino and plan on drop spinning because a wheel is so expensive for a beginner. I appreciate you showing the different styles of spinning and then knitting a sample, I'm in love with the chunky/rustic sample

I'm really enjoying your down-to-earth style -- sometimes you crack me UP!

I needed this video today! A coworker gave me two free fleeces from his daughters’s 4H sheep. All I have is a blending board currently.

How did you know I was going to order my first ever raw fleeces today?! I have no tools. But I will soon have two fleeces! Yay! Thanks for a fab video. So clear and helpful.

What a fancy hair the flicked version. I learned lots thank you

Thank you so much! I have a half fleece that just arrived, and you save me from buying a carding drum. I love the more rustic look!

I’m so glad I found this! I got a raw fleece at Rhinebeck this year, now I have some ideas on what to do. Yay! Thank you. PS you do not look old enough to remember Welcome Back Kotter!

I am late to this process of raw fleece thing...but I just bought raw fleece and anticipating it all...I am excited-but scared but more excited than scared...I'm sure it'll be fine, just giddy! 🎉❤

I love how it looks with more noticeable color changes! I'm a big fan of variegated yarns, so that makes sense.

I've never spun with a fleece with bleached tips, but the tweedy effect it gives is absolutely gorgeous!

Thanks Trish. You've got me hooked on all things spinning. Great to see you

I just recently started watching your channel. Totally enjoying the videos you create. Thanks for being so informative, and fun! I am new to spinning and just fell into 15 bags of raw wool. So, the learning curve is about to happen. Wish me well. Your guidance will be of help, I am sure. I appreciate you👍🏻💖

I just love you so much! You always make me smile and laugh.

Thank you so much for this and especially for showing the swatches. This gave me a ton of confidence!

I have a whole oily manx loughtan fleece in my kitchen and no money for tools, my first attempt at washing a bit went badly so this is really helping me not feel overwhelmed.

Thank you for these how tos. I like the idea of spinning without needing anything extra... Just like, going from fiber to garment all with minimal tools and with my own hands.

Another great visit!!!❤️

This is super helpful! I’m hoping to pick up a fleece soon and this definitely helps! Thanks!

Hi Trish, You always come up with interesting videos and I always learn so much! Thank you!

Love them all!!

My sister gave me 6 suffolk fleeces. This is my first time doing any of this. I'm excited, but crossing my fingers it all turns out. I'm grateful for your videos as a resource.

Loved them all. ❤️

Greetings from New Zealand. Love your videos Trish! I have never used the traditional carding “tools” I just use a dog *comb*…(much quicker than a brush). We all find our own methods, neither is right or wrong, you are so correct 🤗

I loved watching Welcome Back Kotter! I love your channel!

Thanks Trish that was great!

Another awesome how to for us newbies! Thank you for putting in all the time you do to create these.

Super helpful, super encouraging. JUST what I was looking for. Ta Dahhh! Thank you!😄

Love your Welcome back and I would know !

I LOVE textured, funky art yarn. I also love to watch you spin. I'd love to see you demonstrate more creating batts for and spinning art yarns. PS I am a weaver.

This is so cool and gave me lots of ideas.

It's so wonderful to see the results of the techniques you use! Thanks very much for this video :-)

Thank you thank you thank you for this video. I had to move without my tools. I have to wait a few more months for them. But you did a great job on showing the different ways one can spin. I bought a raw fleece of Icelandic fleece and I brought my spindle. So now I will get going on the processing. You rock

Thanks for the great information Trish. You always are such a great person to learn from. Stay safe and well

This is a GREAT informative video!!! Love it! 💗 All your videos have so much useful information and tips! 🙌🏼thank you 🙏🏻

Got 2 FREE babydoll fleeces the other day. They're not exactly cut for spinning but I believe I can make most of it work especially since they were free. They were not skirted at all. It's been raining for DAYS here so I've got them laid out on lounge chairs to let nature do some of the work for me and I skirt them in between bouts of downpour lol. I dont have a carder(yet) and the majority is too short for my homemade combs, so I'm probably going to end up spinning these from the cloud!

Absolutely fascinating. Thank you. One day I’ll get a fleece and then I know whose videos to watch!

Wow! Great information. Someone gave me a fleece and you have encouraged me to go forward with trying to spin it. Thank you!

I love spinning in the grease

Life got busy and I routines changed and I wound up falling behind in the channel for about two weeks. I am glad you are back and I am back and I am looking forward to all the fiber adventures you have coming up.

Oh! Perfect! I kind of accidentally found myself with an embarrassment of riches in the form of (many) raw fleeces. A local auction company runs its auctions online. Last week, my sister sent me a link to one auction lot that just showed a bunch of boxes and said it was Spinning Wheel Fiber. Even though I didn’t know exactly what I was getting into, I bid on it, and won! It looks like the vast majority of these fleeces😅 have been scoured. I have been spinning for three months, and I’m ready to go to town on these babies! Thanks for the lesson.

I've never tackled a raw fleece. I just feels so daunting. You make it look easy!

Love the last "rustic" one. I've been spindle spinning some corridale with light tips in the grease and I love that rustic straight off the sheep look!

Thank you so much for showing this...you always teach us so much in your videos. I'm looking forward to getting my first raw fleece eventually.

Love what you do to the fleece, you make it look so easy to spin.

I know “Welcome Back”! 😁 I love your videos.

I really like your nail color! Beautiful 🥰

Thanks for another great video. Personally, I love texture, I absolutely revel in it. However, I haven’t ventured into the world of “whole” fleeces yet, but this video and your video on washing have made me realize I should probably give it a go. I have a friend that raises Romney and Merino. Guess I should give her a a call…

You are great!!

I love all three! I learned how to flick last week, and have a small part of a fleece I’m washing today. I may try these three and swatch too!

I'm a little older than you and I loved the welcome back thing you should do it more

Do you want to here then funniest,? I grabbed some fleece that I just washed and started to flick it to spin, and then thought to watch your new episode, without looking at the title. And then I see you are doing the same thing, haha that's awesome I love yarn from flicked locks. Cheers

I just spun a 3 oz skein of 3 ply yarn from flicked locks that I had dyed. I agree it is very satisfying to flick out the lovely locks. Mine was from a Corridale X fleece I bought about 5 years ago. I have not been able to spin much at all for several years, but I got an EEW 6 electric spinner and am spinning every day now. do happy to be able to spin again.

Stopped by to leave some fiber 💜

Your “welcome back” is perfect timing. We have been on the road the last several weeks. Saw a bunch a sheep farms on the back road. Didn’t pick up any raw fleece. I will be working on a new projects soon. My goat fiber hats are DONE!

Welcome Back, Kotter! 🥰

I’m so inspired to make it a goal to buy my first fleece this year and just go for it!

Ohh I got one of Donna Putnams Finn fleece. It is heavenly!!

So inspiring! I have a little lamb cross on my stash that I’ll have to try cloud spinning! Oooooohhhhh!!!

55 years ago my family, on our livestock and grain farm, raised Corriedale sheep. I wish I had known these skills then growing up. We sold our beautiful wool crop every year.

ooooooh this is so cool. A Dollar Store dog brush is totally in my future...possibly many! I can see my littles liking combing and listening to audiobooks with me :)

Love that heathered sample! I’m guilty of trying to make everything too perfect, need to learn to embrace all the things, perfect or not! I’ve signed up for tour de fleece this year though so will get plenty of practice - might even podcast it, who knows!! Good to see you back though 😊

Loved seeing the different end jobs with the type of processed wool thank you! I treated myself to carding brushes to start with but wanted a smoother technique so bought a carding machine. I also like the tools and gadgets lol. X

Welcome Back Kotter

Thank you, Trish! I bought a raw Jacob lamb fleece, which has a short staple length. I think the flick and spin may be the best way to process my first fleece.

Thank you for sharing this. I'm a stickler for consistency and have been since I started spinning and upgraded my tools quickly as money allowed.

Thank you for another excellent video and for showing us how the different preps knit up. That Finn fleece looks delicious! I would love a sweater made out of the Finn and I can totally see how weaving with the more textured yarn would be stunning. You’ve given me the nudge I need to carry on flicking my short Dorset fleece…Thanks for always being so inspiring 🙏

Welcome back... 'Your dreams were your ticket out." When I was a kid I thought it was "yours to get out." Lol

Thanks!

Hi trish I'm just washing boreray soay and shetland this week last week I washed Llanwenog, and I wash just like you wash it till the water is clear x

My friend gave me a pair of carders today and I plan on getting a fleece at the fiber fest next month I want to try these ideas as well

So fun! I love wwtching people play with fleece, show fleece, stroke fleece, make things from fleece 🤣🤣

Great Video. I also love tools, and have a lot.

Love, love, love that heathered yarn ! ♡♡♡ Please knit a sweater or wrap with that beautiful yarn. Thanks for sharing. ♡

Never thought about spin from cloud. Your lucky to have mill close. I have 3 alpaca fleeces I would love take it to a mill Thank you learned a lot

Hi. Michigander too, !!!

I have a whole Corriedale fleece arriving tomorrow so this is perfect timing. My first whole fleece.

This is so helpful! I have a bunch of alpaca I wasn’t sure how to process. Maybe flicking? I loved the more consistent yarn you got with that method. And your hair is super cute! 💕

Oh, heavens, I've gotten 5! They are smaller, but I definitely have my work cut out!

Thank you so much for showing this- I love washing fleece, but the tips are often a little stuck together at the end- thanks for showing that it is normal. I thought I was missing something. ( Laughed out loud at you singing Welcome back..)

❤ I'm confident now that I can process some fibers with things around my house. Can you take me to my happy place, thank you. ❤

Ooh ooohoooo...Mr. Kotter..!!!!

This was TOTALLY awesome! Thanks for all of the great info. Also you got nothin on the piles on the table game! I’m pretty sure I’m the winner for that this week.🤣🤣🤣

I knew exactly what that song was from, I used to love Welcome Back Kotter. I’m old too 🤣 I’m going to a local fiber festival In about 3 weeks and they have a fleece sale. I’d love to get a dark fleece with bleached tips. That yarn is so interesting, both the texture and the colors.

Thanks, I'm just starting and using poorer quality wool for practice and don't yet want to buy tools.

I remember that song, does that mean I'm old? Thanks for another video with lots of great information.

After processing the goat fiber, I felt like I needed a break from processing raw fiber. Watching for spin the Fin it me excited to try a real sheered fleece. Love the color variation in he different methods of the Fin.

I was given several down fleeces and am going to wash and spin the wool. Then dye the skeins. Wish me luck.

I just found this video - thank you for the inspiration! I wonder, can you prep locks on a blending board?

Ack! You make me want to buy a fleece! I'm not ready though. I just finished building my Dodec spindle wheel, but it needs adjustments. It's not spinning properly. Hopefully we'll be able to play with it to get it working right soon!

Hi Trish, hope you're OK. Thankyou so much for this video/ podcast. I have a couple Dog Brushes, have made very small Rolags with them. Spin them on my Drop Spindles. Love Roving & Tops. I also have some Batts that I got & make them into variant yarns. The Dog Brushes & Drop Spindles are the only tools I have. I have some Finn Wool & some Jacob oh & some Merino. The Roving I have I don't know what that is apart from being Wool. I would definitely like to try Lock Spinning. Think I'm going to have to find a farm that I could get some from. Thankyou so much for showing this with basically no tools. You are an inspiration & I really appreciate you. Yeah i remember that song too. 🎵 Love the swatches & the way they all looked. Happy Spinning. Take care and stay safe. Love right back to you. Jen xxxx ❤💖

Yep I started with a second hand wheel, (still haven't got a new one) and a dog brush

Happy birthday, Fiber Love Dad! PS: my husband sings that particular copyrighted “Welcome back….” too, but I think we’re of a similar age. 😆

I would love to curl up in a blanket or a big sweater. 😊 I’m still waiting for my first wheel to here “sigh” 2 months and still counting!

I don’t save the locks, but love spinning a fleece. Still spinning and washing Romney.