Skirting A Sheep Fleece on a DIY Skirting Table
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- I'm skirting a sheep fleece that I got for free from a local farm. I didn't get to see the wool all laid out until now. It's like a mystery fleece unboxing! I'll show you how I skirt the raw wool and talk about my plans for this farm to socks Dorset wool project. My husband and I also designed and built a simple and collapsible DIY Skirting Table for this video. This is the first video in a series where I am attempting to make a pair of wool socks from this very dirty wool. Can it be done? Let's find out!
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I NEEDED This video. I'm Indigenous from the Navajo Nation, but my relatives did not teach me this. I am learning from tribal people who have done skirting with minimal water available (involves drying the wool in the sun), but I want to learn from non-Indigenous people too!! I will watch all your videos!
We love a supportive hubby!!!
This is exactly what I need! The historic site I work at was given two big bags of raw fleece to play with, one sheep and one alpaca. The alpaca looks clean enough from what I could see, but the sheep bag has some VERY messy stuff in it, and I had no idea where to start.
I swear you are my fiber doppelganger. I live in town and process wool for spinning and knitting. Love your videos! I really like your skirting table!!!
now you have a skirting table, you need to make a trip to go get the rest of those fleeces ;-)
I completely agree! Can you please explain this fact to Mark for me? 😁
JillianEve @Mark She needs those fleeces (maybe not all, but at least four or so), it’s very important to use this fabulous new skirting table, it would be a shame to keep such a nice table folded all the time 😇 And you can never have enough socks 😃
@@NadiaLucassen and Dorset makes awesome, stretchy, elastic socks! 😄👍🐑
That’s a really great idea with the table! I work in the shearing sheds and one of my jobs is to skirt the fleece. Love all episodes fascinating stuff
I’ve just finished scouring 3 poll Dorset fleece. I’m so happy with how they’ve turned out. Looking forward to seeing how yours turn out and what you decide to make. X
That's great Carol! Do they have that classic scrunchy down wool feeling to them? That's what I'm hoping for with mine. We will see!
OMG I love this!!! I’m being gifted fleeces this weekend for demonstrating spinning at a sheep shearing. I’m going to the hardware store!!!!
The skirted off wool is great to go into your compost pile! It is a high nitrogen compost component (a "green").
I'm so sorry you only got one bag of fleece. I volunteered last weekend at an alpaca farm to help shear and the owner gave me 10 alpaca blankets :-) Free wool is awesome...but soooo much work omg! I took your tips from the alpaca video series and got a salad spinner, laundry bags and a hanging herb drying thing. It's going to take me months to pick through it, clean it and comb it to get it ready for spinning, phew. Great fun though. I can't wait to see what you do with your wool.
That is awesome! Enjoy the process! I'm so glad my alpaca videos were helpful too. ☺
You need some relatives or friends to help!
My family members own a sheep herd of Merino and Rambouillet sheep. I'm excited! I also made a PVC niddy noddy over this past weekend. I do have to fly home for the shearing and the scouring. I hope to transport the cleaned wool back to the city, practice everything, and so on.
You left wool behind 😱 I would have made a corner in the garage for it all!
I'm still thinking about going back for more... 🤔
Catching up on a video i missed. Nice touch showing the 2×4 prices. You know that be like a $100 table this year. 😬 2×4 GOLD!! 😂
Oh yes! I know!!!! I'm planning to build a loom soon, but the prices! 😲
I love that this was filmed in the front lawn.
We went to the tip and got a single bed base and sit it on top of two carpenter saw m-horse legs.
DIY skirting table! This is great. I am always amazed at the amount of fleece that is lost (or I don’t want to fuss with) during the skirting process.
Fantastic does he want to come and modifi mine lol that's brilliant and what fantastic woman and what lovely fleece x
😊 thank you
Excellent! I need to build one! Don’t let the chicken wire get wet it will rust over time. If you have to replace go for hardwarecloth
Oh, that's a great tip! Thank you!
Beautiful fleece!!! YOU CAN ALL!!!
Thank you! 😊 I'm working through it!
I just bought 2 fleece today for the first time. No clue what I'm doing. So excited to see how you process yours!
Congratulations! When I started out, I had no clue either. I think experience is the best teacher, so my advice is to dive right in!
I remember reading in Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder that they washed the sheep before shearing. Do modern farmers do this too?
Some too! I don't think it is a general standard practice anymore though.
omg!! I would die of happiness to get free fleece!! You are so lucky!
See if you have anyone in your area who keeps a couple of sheep. Sometimes they are happy to get rid of the wool!
@@JillianEve I will give it a shot! Thank you for your helpful vids!
I just found you!! I'm in love! Thank you!!
Love this and thank you for the link!!!
Hi Mary! Thank you for such a well researched and informative book! I actually delayed this project so I could finish reading it because I want to scour wool like a boss too! This fleece won't know what hit it! ❤🧶🐑💕
I started spinning 5 months ago, got my polywog 2 weeks ago, and i have 27 fleeces from a local farmer
TWENTY SEVEN??? I wouldn't even know where to begin! You and that polywog are going to be busy! Do you know what kind of wool it is?
@@JillianEve its hampshire X Suffolk, i am borrowing a pair of mini combs and am wondering why my handcards have been 2 hours from where i live for 2 weeks now!
Thanks for the advice on the snapping as I snap twice oooppppss
I did too until I read Mary's book. She talked about the force put on the wool by the fiber equipment used to process it. She said nothing puts as much stress on the wool as snapping. It kind of blew my mind, but it makes sense!
When I lived in Turkey my friends mom would put her cotton or wool on an old bed springs about a foot or two off the ground and sit there and beat it with a stick all of the yuck would fall on the ground
You could do way more than a pair of socks! I picked up a fleece once and it felt endless, it was also very low quality though.
Maybe I should make husband socks since he helped with the table! What did you make with your fleece?
When it's free enjoy it if you paid is be disappointed but its actually good for free x
Yes! So true!
YOU HAVE BEAUTIFUL HUSBAND!!!🌷💖🌷
I think so too! 😁
Oh my goodness, did you have surprise weeds come up in your lawn?
Do you compost the waste wool ? Very high in nitrogen , apparently. We have a company that makes wool and bracken compost , in the UK. Love your passion 😀 💗
I use it as mulch, so...kind of similar! 😁
So skirting is laying it out to pick out the good bits? Why is it called skirting?
I love this question! I love language and words and I teach English so please forgive me for completely geeking out! The word skirt comes from the Old Norse word "skyrta" which actually means shirt, so that's kind of interesting. But the word has gained more meanings in English. Think of how we use it to describe the edge of town as in "outskirts." We also have this example, "The stream skirts the forest to the south." We also use "skirt" as an idiom to mean avoiding something, "We will skirt around the topic." So it makes sense that we would use the word "skirt" or "skirting" to describe what we do with a fleece...we pull of the wool around the edge to avoid the undesirable parts of the fleece! Skirting a fleece makes complete sense now! I love this question so much! ❤😁
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