Raw Wool Processing Start to Finish - Sheep & Alpaca Fleece

Welcome to The 10 Acre Woods! 🐑🧶 In this full wool processing tutorial, we take you step-by-step through the entire journey of turning raw sheep and alpaca fleece into beautiful handmade yarn. From skirting dirty fleece and washing out lanolin to carding, spinning, skein winding, felting, and making dryer balls — this is the complete process from farm to finished product! You’ll see: ✔️ How to wash raw wool safely ✔️ The difference between sheep wool and alpaca fleece ✔️ Removing lanolin and debris ✔️ Hand picking and drum carding wool ✔️ Spinning wool into yarn on a spinning wheel ✔️ Making yarn skeins and yarn balls ✔️ Needle felting techniques ✔️ DIY wool dryer balls This beginner-friendly fiber arts guide is perfect for homesteaders, wool enthusiasts, knitters, spinners, crafters, and anyone curious about traditional wool processing techniques. Whether you're interested in homesteading, sheep farming, alpacas, fiber arts, spinning yarn, or sustainable handmade products, this video shows the full process in a simple and relaxing way. 🐑 Sheep featured in this video include Onyx, Turbo, Tank, and more from the farm! If you enjoy farm life videos, wool crafting, and homesteading content, make sure to LIKE, SHARE, and SUBSCRIBE for more videos from the farm. #woolencraft #WoolProcessing #SpinningWool #fiberarts #handspunyarn #AlpacaWool #homestead #needlefelting #The10AcreWoods Check out our other videos on Sheering and Wool Processing: Sheep and Alpaca Shearing: 2024    • Sheep Shearing Start to finish - Full Process   2022    • Sheep & Alpaca Shearing - #sheep #alpaca #...   2021    • Our Sheep & Alpaca Have Been Sheared, New ...   2020    • Sheep Shearing, Two Kid Goats Leave and 30...   Wool Processing: 2021    • Processing Our Sheep & Alpaca Wool into Ya...   2019    • Processing Our Raw Sheep Wool into Yarn   2018    • Processing Our Raw Sheep Wool Into Yarn   Please like and Subscribe to The 10 Acre Woods for new videos. https://www.youtube.com/c/10AcreWoods... Visit our website at: www.10AcreWoods.org Buy Our Merchandise Here: https://teespring.com/stores/the-10-a... The 10 Acre Woods Social Media Facebook: https://goo.gl/tj3yIe Instagram: https://goo.gl/yaJJ9b You Tube:    / 10acrewoodsanola   YOU CAN ALSO SUPPORT US HERE: Patreon:   / the10acrewoods   Pay Pal: https://www.paypal.me/The10AcreWoods 00:00 Intro 00:39 Skirting the fleece 02:48 Washing raw wool 04:47 How lanolin works 06:17 Fleece second rinse process 08:07 How much wool do sheep produce? 11:55 Drying the fleece 12:50 Picking wool fibers 15:18 Hand carding wool 16:30 Drum carding process 23:28 Spinning wool into yarn 28:39 Finished yarn examples 29:53 Skein winding 31:18 Yarn ball winder 33:22 Dryer balls & felting 36:27 Final thoughts & outro 37:16 Bloopers