Offering Animal Friendly Handspun Yarn, Spinning/Felting Fibers & Wool

From Our Own VERY Pampered Sheep!

Jim & Sandy Ryan (& our wonderful son Ross!), Monroe, WI   608-966-3943
Custom Spinning Is Our Specialty--your fiber or ours!!!


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Wool washing-it's great fun!
Wool washing-it's great fun!
Wool washing is a very basic, but wonderful thing to try! Anyone can do it, whether you use your kitchen sink, or the washing machine! It is so rewarding to take the wool from the sheep all the way to a finished project....

Here is what we suggest for washing larger amounts of wool in your washing machine:

1) Skirt and sort fleece, removing as much hay, undesirable wool, sticks and debris as possible. A good shake outside will remove lots of smaller debris!

2) Fill washing machine with very hot water. Add your favorite soap (Ours is Dawn Dish soap). TURN MACHINE OFF! Gently add wool (generally up to 5 pounds of wool). Let soak for 45 minutes. Even though it is tempting, do not move the wool around while it soaks or you could end up with a washer full of felt! Hot wool in soap felts very quickly!

3) WITH LID UP ON MACHINE, turn machine on and allow water to drain. When the water has drained, turn washer to spin cycle, close lid and allow water to spin from the wool. Remove wool, wipe out washer.

4) Refill washer with hot water, turn machine off. Gently add wool, allow it to soak for 1 hour. Repeat step #3.

This process should give you a nice clean, fluffy wool that is ready for the dye pot or let it dry on a screen outside as it is. If you feel it needs further washing, just repeat the two steps. Some wools that are heavier in lanolin (such as Merino and Rambouillet) do require more washing to completely remove the lanolin.

To wash smaller amounts, just use the same procedure in your kitchen sink, with a smaller amount of soap.


 


News Update

1-5-08!-Update FINITO! Be sure to browse, LOTS of new fiber, roving and yarn!! Have a look at our latest animal friendly mill spun--100% our sheep or Jenny's alpacas! We happily accept special orders also so keep that in mind!!

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  To purchase items or for additional information,  
please email Jim, Sandy or Ross at home@homesteadwoolandgiftfarm.com
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Homestead Wool & Gift Farm,
  Monroe, WI 53566

 

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This website was designed and created by Jim and Sandy Ryan, much of the artwork is original and permission is required before using or reproducing ANY material found on any pages on this site. Permission is NOT granted  to use our name, Homestead Wool & Gift Farm, alone or in combination with any other words, for commercial or personal reason, on or off the Internet. We have made every effort to both ask permission and give proper credit where necessary for use of material from others-- if any of this material is being displayed in a manner you feel is inappropriate, please contact us via email so we can correct the information. Our privacy policy is located on the Order Page  along with our terms and conditions of purchase.....

 

This page last updated: 15 October 2007

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