Room 2 Roxburgh Area School

 How can we change our wool?

We dyed some of the wool in orange dye. We had to put it in the dye and stir it for ages. We all took turns.

While the wool was dying we practiced carding wool.

Look at our beautiful dyed wool!

We decided to weave some carded wool. We persevered even though it was hard for us.

We helped each other.

Look at our beautiful weaving.

Next we learnt to felt our wool.
We laid 4 strips of carded wool one way, then 4 strips another way
We put some of our dyed wool onto the carded wool..

We added one more layer, then we put curtain material on top.

After that we squirted water with lix flakes in it on our work. We rubbed it around and around until it was flat.

Look at our superb work!

We washed our wool. We still didn't know how to make make it into a jersey.
Mrs Clark came and showed us how to card and spin wool. Then she wound it into a ball and Mrs Wilson knitted a little bit.

First we washed the wool.

 Mrs Clark carded the wool with her wool carder.

The she spun the wool. It looked quite tricky.

Next she wound the wool.

Then it was rolled into a ball ready to knit.
Knitting was tricky for us so we decided to try weaving.