Share the adventures of three friends who knit, spin, dye, travel locally, and strive to showcase wool and woollen yarns which are grown and produced in Canada.
What the heck is knitvism? It is activism through knitting. You may have also heard of it as craftivism, which is essentially the same. Not your typical grandmother’s knitting…so you may think. The word knitvism intrigued me. I come from a union family. I worked for the largest labour organization in Canada. I am a …
You know those jokes that start off with, “A priest, a rabbi, and a monk step into a bar…”? Well, this isn’t that but it’s close, in its own weird way… My sheep lined up at the ‘bar’ My parents live on Vancouver Island near Coombs, that town with the store called, Goats on the …
Roving, fresh from the mill After shearing day each spring, I would send my fleeces to a local mill south of Ottawa to get turned into beautiful roving to spin or yarn to knit. Then one day, the mill closed. My sheep still had to be shorn so I saved the fleeces until I could …