I have here Clara Parkes' new The Knitter's Book of Wool: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding, Using, and Loving This Most Fabulous Fiber. I've been wanting to write about it for weeks—and actually have been making notes in this file for that long—but life got in the way. This is not a book I wanted … Read more
This post will consist of ideas and musings, not pronouncements. Having been fascinated by breed-specific wools for years, especially the rare breeds that will vanish if we do not have adequate financial support for the shepherds who want to care for flocks of them, I have jumped off the deep end (again) in another study … Read more
Last weekend I drove south and into the mountains to spend a couple of days working on The Project. (I’ve finally got the energy to see if I can cover the information the computer powers-that-be evaporated on me just as I’d finished writing a post on Monday. This time I am working in an offline … Read more