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50% off (Sale price $15.00, Reg. Price $30.00) :: Choose from Three Options $15 for one BYOB introductory knitting or crocheting class for one ($30 value) $29 for one BYOB introductory knitting or crocheting class for two ($60 value) $55 for one BYOB introductory knitting or crocheting class for four ($120 value) Each class lasts two hours. Click here to see the schedule.Classes are BYOB. Students may also bring their own supplies or purchase them at the store. The class begins with students knitting a sample swatch and ends with instructions for knitting a personal scarf.How Wool Becomes Yarn: From Baa Baa to BobbinBefore it becomes yarn, wool undergoes a long journey from the farm to the spinning wheel. Learn what goes into your favorite sweater besides hard work with Groupon’s overview of the 5,000-year-old process.Though yarn can made from anything from plant fibers to wholly synthetic materials, the traditional source for the soft, fluffy fiber is sheep’s wool. In a process that dates back thousands of years, wool undergoes a series of steps as it evolves from the muddy coat of a grazing sheep into to a skein of clean yarn dyed in any color imaginable.First, farmers must harvest the wool directly from sheep by shearing their coats. This happens once a year, typically in early spring, and results in a heavy, greasy raw material known as fleece. Several undesirable materials—from vegetable matter and natural oils to bits of manure—initially contaminate the fleece and weigh it down, so it must be thoroughly washed or scoured in an acid bath before the wool can begin the process of becoming yarn. Once the wool is clean and dry, a tool called a picker teases the locks, shaping them into a thin, wispy web. Part of wool’s resilience comes from the shape of its fibers, which naturally hold together thanks to microscopic hooks, and these hooks help keep the wool together as workers or machines comb it through with rough brushes known as cards. Finally, the neat, untangled strips—technically called rovings—are ready for the spinning wheel. The method of spinnin
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