From Shearing to Scouring: A Wool Workshop with Clear Creek Farm & Carnation Farms

Have you ever dreamed of starting with a raw fleece freshly sheared off the sheep and then transforming it into a wearable garment? Carnation Farms and Clear Creek Farm have teamed up to bring you a whole day of fiber fun where you can start at the very beginning of the wool process.

Begin the day with a morning field trip to Carnation Farms for a sheep shearing and wool skirting demonstration. Participants will see ten lambs get professionally sheared right next to the pastures where they’re regeneratively raised. After a lunch break, participants will head to Clear Creek Farm to look at raw fleeces, learn about different categories of wool breeds, and talk about why we might be interested in yarn from different kinds of wool with Anna Hosick-Kalahan of Skagit Woolen Works. We will talk about selecting fleeces for hand processing, how to skirt and prep your fleece for scouring and further hand-processing, and what you might want to think about if you have fleeces you’d like to send to the mill.