Author: Athina Afan

Technique

What is the technique you’ve been putting off trying?

It’s time to challenge yourself and give it a go!

Like our hikes, a learning curve can be steep at times, but as we go further along, things begin to feel easier.

Your Weekly Adventure

Post a photo of a swatch or project using a new-to-you technique. Remember to include #woolwideadventures in your post to be entered in the weekly and grand prize giveaways!

Your Mini Treks

• Post the answer to: What pattern is on your wishlist that you’d like to get on your needles this year?

• Learn a new technique at a live class! Sign up for one of Amy’s classes, listed here.

• View Erin’s online tutorials at Morehousefarm.com/tutorials or build your technique toolbox when you join the Morehouse Farm Online Learning Community.

• Explore knit-to-fit knitting with this book.

• Listen to episode 16 of I Thought I Knew How and learn how the Peerie Makkers are preserving traditional Fair Isle Knitting.

Each time you complete a Mini Trek, post about it and include #woolwideadventures in your Instagram post to be entered in the weekly and grand prize giveaways!

Give yourself permission to succeed. And remember, you don’t have to do it alone.

Amy, Irene, Anne, and Erin

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Wool

Sheep and mountains are a natural pair, and trekking through the mountains often leads to crossing paths with a flock of sheep. There are so many different kinds of sheep living all around the world providing us with a diversity of wool.

Your Weekly Adventure

Help us learn about your favorite wool or one that’s new to you!

Tell us what you like about it or where it’s from.

As you post about your research, use #woolwideadventures to be entered in the weekly and grand prize giveaways!

Your Mini Treks

• Need a place to start? Try this episode of the I Thought I Knew How podcast about the amazing qualities of wool.
• Start your woolwide exploration of sheep with the Livestock Conservancy’s Heritage Sheep Breed Index and check out their Shave ‘em to Save ‘em program.
• Did you know that our beloved merino sheep are believed to have Moroccan ancestry? Read more about how African sheep influenced the development of the merino breed here.
• Get behind the scenes of the first superfine merino farm in the USA here and here.
• Read some tips for working with wool on Amy’s blog, The Devious Knitter. This is one of my favorites!

Each time you complete a Mini Trek, post about it and include #woolwideadventures in your Instagram post to be entered in the weekly and grand prize giveaways!

Wool is definitely cool.

Amy, Irene, Anne, and Erin

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Climbing mountains

Mountains can be literal or figurative.

Is there a “mountain” in your knitting skills you’ve been afraid to climb?

I’ve got a tubular bind-off calling my name.

Your Weekly Adventure

Look for something that will help you climb that next peak in your knitting journey, and post about it. You’ll probably be helping someone else up the mountain, too.

Include #woolwideadventures to be entered in the weekly and grand prize giveaways!

Your Mini Treks

• Post a picture of your favorite mountain range, or one you’d like to visit; hop over to @coopibilou for inspiration!
• Listen to episode 19 of the I Thought I Knew How podcast to get some tips on Fair Isle from Hazel Tindall.
• Cast on a pair of Amy’s hiking socks, either Wanderly or Wanderoo (Ravelry: Wanderly or Wanderoo)
• Purchase a sock kit from Morehouse Farm
  We’re kicking off the Wanderly Socks course this weekend!

Each time you complete a Mini Trek, post to Instagram and include #woolwideadventures in your post to be entered in the weekly and grand prize giveaways!

Share your mountain far and wide, so that we can climb it together.

Amy, Irene, Anne, and Erin

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