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Fiber Gathering: Knit, Crochet, Spin, and Dye More than 20 Projects Inspired by America's Festivals by Joanne Seiff 
Meet the people, sample the flavor, and experience the kinship through 11 unique events and more than 25 inspiring projects (p. 123 Mock Cable Sweater knitted with Green Mountain Spinnery Alpaca Elegance). Throughout history, we've gathered together in the market square. We're there to buy and sell, to get good deals on fibers, fabrics, fruits, vegetables, and bread, but we're also there to see friends, gossip, trade recipes, and admire new clothes. We've got an eye on each other's animals, and we're going to keep them from getting into any trouble. It's our chance to hold someone else's baby or to congratulate a new grandmother. It's a chance to connect, to touch, and to bond with others. These days, it's easy to feel like we live in scary times, and sometimes we're less neighborly than we used to be. Our lives are filled with long distances and technology. We're more likely to make cyberfriends than visit with someone down the street. Our lives are full of work, school, and caretaking, but how many of us still live near our families? Our hometowns? How do we reach out to one another?
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Worker-Owned Green Mountain Spinnery Supports Local Community
by Tim King
At the Green Mountain Spinnery in Putney, Vermont, shepherds can have their animals’ fleeces spun into certified organic yarn, GREENSPUN yarn, or yarn spun using conventional, petroleum-based spinning oil. Encapsulated within those three options is the story of the development of this 25-year-old wool processing and spinning plant.
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Green Mountain Spinnery yarns featured in two new books! Potter Craft has published two wonderful books which feature Spinnery yarns. A Fine Fleece: Knitting with Handspun Yarn by Lisa Lloyd contains 25 amazing designs presented in both handspun and commercial yarns including our Mountain Mohair and Maine Organic. Lisa designed theSpinnery's Cable Weave Pullover, Ropes and Ladder Vest and the PutneyAran Tunic.
The link to the publisher is www.afinefleece.com |
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The Yarn Lover's Guide to Hand Dyeing by Linda LaBelle explores the many techniques of dying yarns and uses Mountain Mohair in one of itsprojects. |
Green Mountain Spinnery Cotton Comfort is Cover Story Living Crafts, a magazine devoted to crafts and natural living asked knitting designer Marie Grace Smith to design a Vest for Dad for their
summer issue. She chose Cotton Comfort 20% organic cotton, 80% fine wool. Made with Denim color, this versatile vest goes with jeans, white
or khaki slacks and is an easy but great heirloom piece to make for the important man in your life. For detailed patterns and instructions please see Living Crafts Summer 2008 issue on newsstands May 20th, or visit www.livingcrafts.com and subscribe. |
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We are pleased to be featured in The
Natural Knitter. Barbara Albright takes readers
on a rich journey through the joys of all-natural fibers–materials
that can make an incredible difference, both in your knitting and
in the health of our planet. From the animals and plants that produce
the fibers to the artisans who work with them, The Natural Knitter
presents the first-ever all-encompassing look at the world of natural
knitting. |
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Did you miss Summer 2006 issue of
Wild Fibers Magazine! Read
about our beginning venture into a 25 year long passion with fiber
and the environment. The back issue is still available at Wildfibers.
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Our Greenspun
and Natural Organic yarns are
featured this newest publication from Interweave Books. |
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| Several members from the Spinnery were so fortunate
to be invited to the Navajo Nation for the 2005 Sheep
is Life Celebration. You can read about the "Chant
of the Male Spider - An intimate portrait of four male weavers from
the Navajo Nation" by Tori Olson in this months's issue of Wild
Fibers Magazine |
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