Spinners at Dovedale Sheepdog Trials

A last minute addition to our programme of events, we had a lively time in the bar and craft tent at the Dovedale Sheepdog trials at Blore, near Ilam.

As at all the shows we attend, families come and love us to help explain the processes of converting sheeps' fleeces into woolly items. Children have a go at carding the fleece or knotting a rug.

The thing that primary age children need to understand, because it's on the curriculum, is that adding the twist crucially adds strength. Try pulling apart raw fleece and spun fleece...