I made a lot of progress this week! I got through my mistake and figured out how to keep going. I am not over halfway through the yoke of the sweater and making good progress.
The technology that I want to talk about today is the creation of fibres. I am allergic to wool however, I do know quite a bit about how wool is made because of how much my sister knows about it.
It begins with the shearing of the sheep where the raw wool is washed and cleaned and then it is brushed out to clean the fibre and make it smoother. Then it is dyed and turned into fibre that is ready for spinning. It will look like this:
This brushed and dyed fibre is now ready for spinning! To spin you need a spinning machine or a drop spindle.
Both of these technologies take the raw fibre and begin to create the wool that you can use for knitting, the fibre is spun tightly to form a stronger material. After the fibre has been spun into a thread, it can then be spun together to ply the material to create a thicker and stronger wool for knitting or crocheting.
This is the final result and now ready to create amazing garments!
Here’s an update on my sweater!
