Spinning wool like Grannie Island

Primary 1 were very pleased when they came into class the other day and found a special visitor with lots of things to tell them all about life on a farm.

Alice from Lamont Farm brought some really exciting things to show us. She showed us some of the foods that the different animals eat and even her wellies!

She talked to us about how Grannie Island would get her wool to knit cosy jumpers for Katie Morag and shawls for baby Liam. She wouldn't buy it from a shop but would collect it from her sheep.

Alice very kindly showed us some of the equipment that might be used like a spindle, a niddy noddy and a lazy kate.

Grannie would clean the wool using carders before she could spin it on her spinning wheel.

Alice was very good at spinning the wool. She showed us what it looked like when it had just come off of a sheep and it was very different to when it was spun.

We also enjoyed looking at the pictures of the animals on Lamont Farm and were quite surprised at how many different ones there were.