Seaming and reading
Exciting news! Apricot Jacket is being seamed! YaY! Hopefully she will be done and I will have a picture up this weekend. The weekend being, for me, Sunday and Monday.
In the meantime, I wanted to show you this adorable book that I came across at work. Have you seen this, you with little ones at home? It’s called “Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep: a yarn about wool.” I takes it’s little readers through the process of yarn making, from the shearing of the sheep, to the spinning and coloring of the wool, to the knitting up of little sweaters (by MR. Farmer Brown!) for the chilly little sheep. It’s a really cute story, and the illustrations are great, too! I’m going to develop a storytime around this book. I decided that I’m going to bring in some unspun wool, and a hand spindle to show the children what unspun wool looks like, and maybe try to give them a little demonstration on how to spin wool. I’m thinking i will wear one of my knitted sweaters and tell them that I knitted it myself. I may even bring in some knitting needles and yarn…I’m still brewing over this…I found some other cute storybooks that incorporate knitting that I will read, too. Still kind of hunting around for more, though. I might have to read some books about sheep, to fill in a bit.
Anyway, just wanted to share my little discovery with you 
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5 comments September 28th, 2005