When Donna Putnam began raising border collies and training them to herd sheep, she would often come home with wool scraps. Putnam decided to take a spinning class to learn how to use the scraps to ...

Waltin (Knit (Spin) Sweden!) delivers an informative guide to spinning wool from start to finish. First, she discusses wool characteristics of various sheep breeds, pointing out that the Gute sheep’s ...

Some people have a nose for whiskey. Jenn Phillips has a nose for wool. "I can smell a fleece and tell if it’s good, and depending on the scent, it’ll be nice and sweet," Phillips said. The Amity ...

After brushing the billowy, thick white fur of her Angora rabbit Mollie, Karen Lamb feeds strands of fur into a spinning wheel, pinching every few seconds to create an even mound of yarn on a cylinder ...

CLERMONT — The promise of learning how to shear sheep’s wool and spin it into yarn attracted some to Clermont State Historic Site Saturday; others came to the Chancellor’s Sheep and Wool Showcase for ...