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I consider myself severely color-impaired (my ideas about what will look good together never turn out to be accurate!) - but it would be fun to have tons of time to spend doing the exercises in the book, no one of which seems to be overwhelming in size. I think my only handicap would be the lack of a complete collection of all the colors of J&S yarn...what does one do if one does not have All the Colors to match to one's environment??
Caroline
Commented Nov 18, 2014 on A gem of a book: Felicity Ford's KNITSONIK Stranded Colourwork Sourcebook at The Independent Stitch
A gem of a book: Felicity Ford's KNITSONIK Stranded Colourwork Sourcebook
EDITED March 7, 2015 to add: Felicity Ford's KNITSONIK Stranded Colourwork Sourcebook is now one of the wonderful books (including Kate Davies' and Elizabeth Lovick's and more) available in the U.S. from Meg Swansen's Schoolhouse Press. I'll link here to the "new books" page where you can curren...
PS did you know that the featured breed this year at Rhinebeck is Shetland??
Caroline
Commented Sep 2, 2014 on Rambling around Shetland, 1 at The Independent Stitch
Rambling around Shetland, 1
During my time in Shetland, I focused on things I could not do elsewhere, because the time was short and precious. But there were also hours when none of the places I needed to access was open, or errands needed to be done (food, post office, map acquisition), and so on. Also my lack of familiar...
Wow, Fair Isle guitars. That is just the coolest thing I've ever seen.
Caroline
Commented Sep 2, 2014 on Rambling around Shetland, 1 at The Independent Stitch
Rambling around Shetland, 1
During my time in Shetland, I focused on things I could not do elsewhere, because the time was short and precious. But there were also hours when none of the places I needed to access was open, or errands needed to be done (food, post office, map acquisition), and so on. Also my lack of familiar...
Wow, Barbara Isbister should publish a book. Every one of her items is unique and beautiful!
Caroline
Commented Aug 19, 2014 on Cunningsburgh (Shetland) show, part 3 - other fibery things at The Independent Stitch
Cunningsburgh (Shetland) show, part 3 - other fibery things
I didn’t see everything at the Cunningsburgh show, even though I think I was there for nine hours. No, it’s nowhere near as big as the major festivals in the U.S., but there was an abundance of things of extreme interest and quality. I only saw the horses and ponies from a distance, and didn’t e...
Love the orange Suffolks, that one picture could be someone's shop banner. And don't Texels look like pigs??
Caroline
Commented Aug 19, 2014 on Cunningsburgh (Shetland) show, part 2 - sheep at The Independent Stitch
Cunningsburgh (Shetland) show, part 2 - sheep
It was easy to spend most of my time around the sheep area at the Cunningsburgh show. There was a lot going on. Initially sheep were arriving and getting settled into their pens, although by the time I got there at 8:45 most were in place. This is a not-quite-complete view of the sheep section. ...
I love those Norwegian wellingtons!
Caroline
Commented Aug 19, 2014 on Cunningsburgh (Shetland) show, part 1 - overview at The Independent Stitch
Cunningsburgh (Shetland) show, part 1 - overview
I’ll be ever-grateful to Elizabeth Johnston for the heads-up (before I’d booked my travel to Shetland) that the Cunningsburgh show would be happening on August 13. I was able to arrive in time to see the show in its entirety, instead of arriving two days late. I had to sacrifice an open spinning...
Enjoy Shetland! We're all sending you out there to bring back the info!
Looking forward to your review of the new large book of Shetland textile history that just appeared on Schoolhouse Press's new books list....
Commented Aug 15, 2014 on Aberdeen to Shetland at The Independent Stitch
Aberdeen to Shetland
I came into Aberdeen on the train from Cumbria. It’s a big station, and a friend had helped me with how to get from train to ferry, and the internet and the same friend helped me figure out that I’d better eat at the shopping mall adjacent to the train station, because there’s nothing at the f...
Lovely - almost as nice as buying all that fleece myself!
Caroline
Commented Feb 4, 2014 on Wool and the idea of terroir at The Independent Stitch
Wool and the idea of terroir
This is another post about my trip to mainland Scotland, Orkney, and Shetland, although it's also another digression from the chronological/topical sequence. It's about fleeces. And because my blog posts are never long enough, I'll add that the Rare Breeds Survival Trust has just released its 20...
That last photo is particularly lovely. Take care of yourself.
Commented Jun 3, 2013 on All shall be well again, I know (Julian of Norwich) at The Independent Stitch
All shall be well again, I know (Julian of Norwich)
Allene Robson (locally known as Mom, or, by some, Gramma) May 19, 1924 to May 31, 2013 May 20 to 25, 2013 - hospital: broken hip, clear directives in place for what she did and did not want in the way of medical intervention May 25 to 31, 2013 - Serene Corner, Kenmore, W...
Sorry to hear this. She sounds like a lovely dog. The pictures of her in the car waiting to go with were particularly nice.
Caroline
Commented Apr 24, 2013 on Tussah: 19?? - April 23, 2013 at The Independent Stitch
Tussah: 19?? - April 23, 2013
We were Tussah's third home that we know of. She lived with us for eight or nine years. She was somewhere between six and eight years old when she came to us. She had initially been abandoned at a reservoir in North Dakota. From there, someone picked her up and took her to the humane society ...
Sure, throw my knitted hat in the ring!
Caroline
Commented Mar 22, 2013 on Ann Kingstone's "Born and Bred" Yorkshire-based designs at The Independent Stitch
Ann Kingstone's "Born and Bred" Yorkshire-based designs
Those of you who, like me, enjoy books on the order of Clara Parkes' The Knitter's Book of Wool and Sue Blacker's Pure Wool: A Guide to Using Single-Breed Yarns have a new collection to check out: Ann Kingstone's Born & Bred: Yorkshire Sheep, Yorkshire Style (the extra links go to Ann's other co...
This is all going to be great! especially for people that can't actually be in all your workshops and classes. I'm looking forward to all of it. See what happens when you ask a bunch of smart people how they'd solve a problem??
Caroline
Commented Mar 20, 2013 on Dreaming of Shetland at The Independent Stitch
Dreaming of Shetland
Updated in July 2013 to add a link here as the Dreaming of Shetland website goes live. ___ Ah, time. There just isn't enough of it. If there were, I'd complete a lot more blog posts. I have ten started in MarsEdit, the program I use for composing, and another few dozen that I've meant to start ...
PS the Oxford shepherds all disappeared on me, I emailed multiple times before Rhinebeck and got no answer....
Commented Dec 26, 2012 on UK visa saga, continuing at The Independent Stitch
UK visa saga, continuing
I spent a lot of last week working on how to get a visa to teach short, small-group, low-key workshops in the United Kingdom. A friend wrote, "It seems it shouldn't be that difficult!" That made me laugh, because it's turning out to be one of the most bureaucratically difficult tasks I've ever e...
Emily was our shearer in May when we did sheep-to-shawl at Maryland - we were so lucky, she was great and by far the first shearer finished.
Caroline
Commented Nov 27, 2012 on The Shepherd and The Shearer at The Independent Stitch
The Shepherd and The Shearer
I'm taking a break from my efforts to sort out the Norwegian spaelsaus (short-tailed sheep) to highlight a wonderful project that is right in line with the celebration of wool known as Wovember. It's The Shepherd and The Shearer, and if you want to be part of it here's the sign-up page, which I'...
Thanks for the very detailed review! I'll print it out and stick it in the book when I get it. (I put it in an Amazon order with something else that doesn't come out till November, to get free shipping...)
I have now got two batches of handspun North Ron, 300 yards each of natural grey and brown. Wonder what I can do with them...
Caroline
Commented Oct 5, 2012 on Book review: Pure Wool by Sue Blacker at The Independent Stitch
Book review: Pure Wool by Sue Blacker
Sue Blacker is wise in the ways of wool, especially with regard to making high-quality yarns from special batches of fleece, including many from rare breeds of sheep that live in the British Isles. She has written us a lovely book that features single-breed yarns, specifically those made at her ...
I was in a similar situation, with a lot of research I wanted to organize, format, and make available, but certainly no desire to take on physical distribution, or to look for a real publisher. (In my case my information was about nineteenth century Quebec spinning wheel makers - you can see a review, with my name misspelled, in the issue of Spin-Off that just came out.) I used Microsoft Word to create my text and Publisher to make the photo volume, used a free download called PDF Creator to turn them into PDFs, and I distribute it via email with payments by Paypal. Of course my volume is low, but there are probably ways to get document hosting for not too much, and be able to send out download links, the way Ravelry pattern selling works... I would certainly subscribe to a series of PDFs collecting the research you're doing!
Caroline
Commented Sep 17, 2012 on Researching sheep (still), and miscellaneous semi-related comments at The Independent Stitch
Researching sheep (still), and miscellaneous semi-related comments
When Carol Ekarius and I wrote The Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook, my responsibility focused on the fibers and hers on the animals. While I got into research and writing on some of the species and breeds where I'd already done a lot of digging and thinking (notably Soay, Boreray, and unsnarling a few...
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