The Natural Beauty of Shetland Yarns
The colors of Shetland’s sheep are a great source of knitterly inspiration. Hear how Gudrun Johnston uses naturals in color-filled palettes.
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The colors of Shetland’s sheep are a great source of knitterly inspiration. Hear how Gudrun Johnston uses naturals in color-filled palettes.
SUBA knitter recalls her visit to an extraordinary flock while standing on the threshold of her academic career.
Can your lawnmower grow you the fiber for a pair of socks? Some sheep are providing landscaping services, turning grass and weeds into wool.
How one Oregon ranch leads the way to traceable, sustainable, responsible wool
Whether you’re roaming the barns at a fiber festival or trying to make sense of a yarn label, understanding what fleece you’ll get from different breeds of sheep will help you have a happy knitting experience.
What should you do with your intriguing new skeins of farm-grown yarn? After developing a line of yarns from her own flock, the author and shepherd has some good advice.
Generally avoided by the large-scale wool mills, naturally colored wool is a treat that small-batch wool producers offer knitters.
One of the more recent breeds to emerge on the American wool scene, Montadale produces soft, springy, pure-white wool.
This woman- and veteran-owned small yarn company was founded to salvage and celebrate underappreciated fibers.
In the spring, we asked readers for name suggestions for these cute twins. Let’s take a peek in the barn to see how Willa and Gus are doing this fall, and—of course—how their fleeces are growing!