Spinning and knitting a fairisle hat as payment for my local sheep farmer

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Hello friends! Last summer I brought home a human-sized bag of Flemish' sheep's wool. As wool is no longer economically interesting in Belgium the farmer didn't want any money for it, but I promised him a hat in return for all that lovely wool.
And I sure kept my promise. In this video we will first dye the wool with walnut peel, then comb it into fluffy birds' nests, spin it to a DK weight yarn and finally knit the Reynald hat from Drops Design/Garnstudio. (Pattern: www.garnstudio.com/pattern.ph...) All the while I rant about the lamentable state of the wool industry in Belgium because that is a complete travesty!
Some sources to back up my claims (in Dutch however):
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/09/07/...
www.slabbinck.be/nl-BE/conten...
www.landbouwleven.be/9500/art...
If anyone tells you handspun yarn isn't fit for fairisle or other colourwork knits, show them this video to prove them wrong!
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@AndreaAlexander Год назад

I'm sure you made your farmer friend super happy, that is SUCH a kind and thoughtful gift 😍

@alexvanderpol1 Год назад

I'm sorry to hear that there are not many people in Belgium that do fiber arts. If you are close to Eindhoven and ever feel like spinning with others, there is a group that gets together once a month for an afternoon to spin together. Everyone is welcome to join, and it is totally "vrijblijvend" (I don't know the English word). If you want more information, don't hesitate to ask.

@Lisa-zt9jr Год назад

I so agree with you regarding the waste of wool. In UK farmers wool needs to be of exceptionally high standard to sell, even then they get paid the following year(!) and it is a criminally small amount. I am disgusted that this resource is wasted and at the same time produce so much polyester - plastic clothes,

@saritasarit Год назад

I found this so interesting, im Spanish and also wish for a revival and protection of the past vast culture of wool crafts. You are a multifaceted artist! Well done

@caylarivera2804

I hope that the wool industry can have a revival in our lifetime. I absolutely love it as a textile, working with it, whether spinning, felting, or knitting it is one of my favorite textures. I have asked a farmer that I work with if i could buy some of her fair show sheep fleeces, and she just sort of laughed at the idea and never got back to me after shearing season. I really hope that the popularity of merino in the recent years can help introduce more people to wool as a textile and help get more breeds into the mainstream so we can get away from unsustainable fibers and pay our farmer's better. Thanks for sharing, your videos are very much my brand of wooly chaos.

@OrcaFPV Год назад

I like your natural clothes, works, hobby, things that you’re doing there, but especially the smart watch fits perfect to all these things 😀👍

@josieposie1 Год назад

It's the same in the UK. Here we have some amazing fleeces (blue face leiceser for example) but farmers get paid nothing for the hard work and care that goes into producing such fantastic fibre. I love your gift, super thoughtful

@franedelstein3975 Год назад

Beautiful as always 🥰 hearing about how much wool gets wasted makes me think if it's similar in other countries - I just visited family in France and no one seemed to have even heard of buying fibre 😔 I brought a photo of a braid and asked for spinning wheel, fibre, "stuff you make yarn out of", and they had no idea where to find any. I was even in the countryside! It makes me sad how little people know about handwork today, I hope attention is brought to farmers and they are properly compensated!

@bagladysendtheferalspinner3761

I've done some nature dye of my fleeces but not walnut husks because I live too far north for walnuts to grow. I've used marigolds(tagetes) for gold/orange, horsetail (equisetum) for sage green, and daylilies (hemerocallis) for a caramel colour. You hat turned out wonderfully. Most the wool shorn off sheep here in Canada is also burned or composted since the farmers only get pennies per kg from the wool growers' co-op.

@magiccookie22 Год назад

What a lovely hat! Amazing that you can get wool locally, that is my dream one day. I live in the US and sheep are not at all economic in this area, so wool is incredibly hard to get a hold of. Wool yarn is considered very luxurious and out of the price range of most Americans, at least around here. Its very difficult to buy raw fleece around here too 😭

@Tanjaaraus Год назад

Sooo interesting! Where I live (Norway), we also get told that our local sheep's wool is too "harsh and itchy", and not suited for soft knitted items and yarn. But we also have such a huge knitting industry! Ofc the big players all usually import alpaca from Peru, or Merino from new zealand and Australia (non-mulesing merino ofc). But it's interesting to see as there is such a high demand for wool yarn here, even for our "itchy and useless" wool. Because not surprsingly, the sheep we have, are bred to be able to deal with really harsh weather, and so their wool is absolutely excellent for outer layers. So socks, (with a layer of thin wool or cotton socks under), hats, mittens etc.

@PermaPen Год назад

Gorgeous hat! I hope he was delighted. Funny to see you sitting like a 17th century Vermeer farmgirl in your studio, then you whip out a smartphone!

@scrapbagstudios Год назад

Such a pity about the Flemish wool industry and the lack of interest in fibre arts. I am in Australia and despite our reputation as a wool growing country most of it is merino and most of it is exported. There is starting to be more interest in fibre arts especially in the south but where I live not so much. There is a growing number of indie growers of other breeds and I as a new spinner I am exploring what breeds are grown here. There is also a growing number of indie dyers here also and we do have still a few mills. But it is almost entirely merino and some alpaca and silk added sometimes. All the mainstream retail outlets sell a great deal of acrylic as well as wool, and although some of the wool is local, much of it is Chinese. Such a shame for a country that prides itself on it's sheep history.

@lizziefrances

This makes my heart happy. Thank you!

@MikeAdamsArtist 21 день назад

Awesome hat! Thanks for the vid.

@afoxgloveshandiwork Год назад

How did you determine what fluffs were worth keeping and which ones were tossed to the ground? Loved the chaos goblin energy as always!

@BlijVrouw Год назад

❤️ This is awesome on so many levels.

@suze6288 Год назад

Hello! I recently purchased my first spinning wheel. I’m so excited! You inspired me to finally take the plunge. I did name her(a nod to you). Her name is Faye.❤️

@TheMayLight Год назад

That's a very nice project and well done! I find the awareness for such crafts and natural local ressources has been and is strongly growing in the last years. So sharing your thoughts, your craft and passion for it will do its thing to strenghten this mindset, in your region too. I'm sure of it! There are people who think and feel like you, they just need the right one to deliver the spark. Keep it up! <3

@dvorak920289

In Greece too the wool processing industry has declined to the point where farmers throw away shorn fleece. Such a shame to let precious resources like wool go to waste.