Wovified
Wovember is a movement started by Kate Davies and Felicity Ford encouraging the celebration of100% wool. Wool that comes from actual sheep – not wool blends and not synthetics, the real deal.
The idea got me to thinking about how much 100% wool I use in my knitting so I took a closer look at my past projects. In the spirit of increasing my own woolly awareness, I started a ’100% wool’ tag. There are more projects that fall into that category than I expected. I’ve been using a lot of alpaca and linen wool blends lately and actually had a hard time remembering my most recent 100% wool project. It turns out that it was Damson on October 2nd – so not long ago at all!
I also ‘wovified’ myself by ordering some of Felicity’s 100% wool badges, which you can see above. This woolly campaign brought Shrek to mind – New Zealand’s now deceased celebrity sheep. Six years of freedom and a 60-pound fleece!
Tags: 100% wool, Felicity Ford, Kate Davies, Shrek, wool, Wovember
November 27th, 2011 at 5:12 pm
Any excuse to revisit that Shrek video! Love this post.
November 30th, 2011 at 3:59 am
Shrek was the smartest sheep on the planet – great story ! Your badges are lovely btw, thanks for the link. I think Etsy will send me broke some day .)