{"id":3445,"date":"2016-09-06T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteaderdepot.com\/?p=3445"},"modified":"2016-09-06T09:00:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T14:00:14","slug":"from-fleece-to-yarn-video-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/2016\/09\/06\/from-fleece-to-yarn-video-series\/","title":{"rendered":"From Fleece to Yarn (Video Series)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some homesteading projects are so much better explained visually, when you can see the whole process, start-to-finish. Shearing sheep, processing the wool and spinning it into yarn is such a classic self-sufficiency skill that, even if you don&#8217;t have sheep, you&#8217;ll love learning how to do. Just seeing how a brilliantly versatile natural fiber is made using traditional methods will take you back to bygone days. Is there anything more idyllic than spinning wool on a homestead?<\/p>\n<p>I loved watching this series from the YouTube channel, Keeper of the Homestead, on how to shear, clean, process and spin wool. It&#8217;s part of a bigger series on homesteading, check out all their videos, there&#8217;s lots of great homesteading knowledge and tutorials.<\/p>\n<p>This first video covers shearing the sheep and how to store the wool.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/MEuYwgB13Xg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This second video covers washing the wool-a very important part of the process as sheep fleece can be quite dirty!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/fpCmCTY5lXw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This video covers &#8220;carding&#8221; the wool, which is basically combing out the wool to make it smoother and more manageable:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/6f5sSZzsB0s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This next video shows &#8220;roving&#8221; the wool, which is the next step towards spinning:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JyEVFC-mOCM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And finally, this video covers the fun part-spinning!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Hmue2oouubo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I just think it is so cool to learn these traditional methods for taking resources from our homestead and turning them into tools and material to use. Because after all, isn&#8217;t that the point of homesteading?<\/p>\n<p><b>If you like\u2020this, you might also like:<\/b><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/b0ee4r4c7d9a2lzr50rw5w4ncx.hop.clickbank.net\/?tid=VEGGIEGARD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Advanced Gardening Course To Accelerate Your Food Production<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/df069q5c19447q1f3ma8toav2s.hop.clickbank.net\/?tid=SiteWouldUInfo\">Survival Medicine &amp; Wilderness Survival<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/032eahxn59a6xqt93f6ipwyrft.hop.clickbank.net\/?tid=SiteWouldUInfoTLW\">Survival Techniques From Long Ago, Re-purposed For The Modern Era<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some homesteading projects are so much better explained visually, when you can see the whole process, start-to-finish. Shearing sheep, processing the wool and spinning it into yarn is such a classic self-sufficiency skill that, even if you don&#8217;t have sheep, you&#8217;ll love learning how to do. Just seeing how a brilliantly versatile natural fiber is<\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-grid-button\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/2016\/09\/06\/from-fleece-to-yarn-video-series\/\">Read More <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[321,521,550,599],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}