Monthly Archives: November 2014

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is the greatest month of the year- WOVEMBER! Wovember is the project of one of my very favorite people, a friend that I haven’t met in person yet, Felicity Ford.

Here is how Wovember is described by it’s creator:

“The idea is to show our collective appreciation of WOOL by wearing as much of this fabulous fibre as possible, and celebrating WOOL and its unique qualities in stories and pictures throughout the month of November. We hope that through our enthusiasm and creativity we can raise awareness of WHAT MAKES WOOL DIFFERENT, and jointly create a force for WOOL APPRECIATION strong enough to effect changes in how garments and textiles are described and marketed.”

As knitters and sheep enthusiast, you will undoubtably want to visit the Wovember website every day this month for amazing photography and thoughtful, well-researched articles about  sheep, knitting traditions, cottage wool industries and so much more.  Where most of what you can find on the internet barely skims the surface, the folks at Wovember dig deep into their subject matter and what they publish is one a whole other level of wool scholarship.

This Wovember is an extra special one for Felicity because it also marks the publication of her book, KNITSONIK Stranded Colourwork Sourcebook.

Can I tell you a secret? I have been agonizing over how I could possibly write a review of this book that would begin to do it justice. I feared that my writing skills weren’t up to the task because this book is important. It’s also lovely and sublime and everything I hoped it would be. I caused myself all manner of anxiety over writing about it because it is a book that is worthy of more than the few cursory sentences that my pregnancy-addled brain can manage this week.

Well, lucky for all of us, the amazing Ms Ysolda Teague has written a review of Stranded Colourwork Sourcebook that is worthy of Felicity’s book. Please, please, please do yourself a favor and pop over to Ysolda’s blog to read it. (You should be reading Ysolda’s blog on the regular anyhow. She is one of the smartest young women I’ve ever met and I admire the hell out of her. I have also had the pleasure of watching her knit– it was like watching a master paint a portrait.)

Then come back here because, in addition to my own copy of Stranded Colourwork Sourcebook, I ordered a copy to give away to one of you.

To put your name in the hat, just leave a comment on this blog post between now and Friday morning at 10 a.m. EST. One will will be chosen at random and I will announce the lucky duck here on Friday.

If you cannot wait to get your hands on a copy of Stranded Colourwork or you just aren’t feeling lucky, please do order a copy for yourself. Don’t be put off by the fact that it ships from the U.K.– mine arrived in just a couple of days.