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Week 8: Proclaim

Proclaim

Shout from the mountain tops!

You are finishing up a brilliant journey.

Your Weekly Adventure

Share what you’ve learned or loved from the experience. Tag some friends in the post who would love to make this journey, too!

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

Your Mini Treks

  • Celebrate your journey with us! Sign up for the WoolWide Adventures Wrap Party that takes place Friday, April 30 at 7:00 EST. Register here.
  • Review the I Thought I Knew How podcast on iTunes, YouTube, Audible US, or the app you used to subscribe
  • Share a photo of something you made during this trek and tag the designer so s/he can see it too.
  • Leave a comment on one of Amy’s YouTube videos or her blog.

Be sure to include #woolwideadventures in your post to be entered in the weekly and grand prize giveaways!

EWE did IT!
Amy, Irene, Anne, and Erin

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Week 7: Feed

Feed

Feed yourself.

We are going to need energy—both physical and metaphysical —as we climb. Take some time this week to focus on food and activities that nourish you, body and soul.

Your Weekly Adventure

Try a food from another culture this week.

What did you pick?

Be sure to include #woolwideadventures in your post to be entered in the weekly and grand prize giveaways!

Your Mini Treks

  • Learn the difference between straw and hay, and what it means for sheep.
  • Share a recipe.
  • Share a practice that feeds your soul. Do you do yoga? Enjoy nature walks?
  • Feed your inner knitter with a short tutorial to improve your cast-ons, gusset holes, and afterthought heels, watching one of these tutorials.
  • Visit one of the days in the last Online International Fiber Festival and prepare the menu from that country
  • Join the Morehouse Merino Flock and feed your appetite for learning, growing, and building your knitting toolbox. We’re about to cast on a pattern that can be either leg warmers or a cowl – how cool is that?

Be sure to include #woolwideadventures in your post about your Treks, to be entered in the weekly and grand prize giveaways!

Feed is fuel.
Amy, Irene, Anne, and Erin

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Week 6: Create

Create

Nothing beats handknit socks and hats on a mountain adventure.

Your Weekly Adventure

Show us you’re ready for that unpredictable mountain weather with a post about a pair of socks or a hat you’ve recently made or are currently making.

If you need some inspiration, here are some great hat and sock patterns.

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

Your Mini Treks

  • Try one of the patterns in this book from Moroccan shepherds who are no strangers to harsh mountain weather.
  • Cast on one of Amy’s patterns, available from Ravelry or Payhip.
  • Sign up for one of these classes for more in-depth help.
  • A month’s membership to the Morehouse Merino Flock might be just the ticket to help you get a jump on knitting projects that FIT you – with a community of like-minded knitters.
  • If you find you’ve caught the hat-knitting bug, listen to this podcast episode to learn how your knits can make a difference in a child’s life.

Be sure to include #woolwideadventures in your post to be entered in the weekly and grand prize giveaways!

Create something awesome.
Amy, Irene, Anne, and Erin

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Week 5: Community

Community

No matter where you go in this world, if you pull out your knitting, you are going to make a friend.

People are drawn to knitting. They are curious, or nostalgic, or knitters themselves. Within communities, knitting brings families and friends together as skills and techniques are passed along from person to person.

The process of sharing that knowledge often creates an intimacy that allows people to share their lives as well.
This week, we are going to focus on how knitting strengthens communities.

Your Weekly Adventure

Tag someone you admire in the knitting community who brings people together and tell us what makes them so special.

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

Your Mini Treks

  • Register to be part of the live virtual audience in the next episode of Amy’s video knitcast, “Would Knit Be Fun,” where she will interview Anne here, or listen to one of the earlier episodes here.

Each is backed by a welcoming and encouraging community of knitters who share their knowledge and friendship with fellow knitters!

Tag or share this post with your knitting friends so they can experience their own Wool Wide Adventure. As you do so, be sure to use #woolwideadventures to be entered in the weekly and grand prize drawings!

Be sure to include #woolwideadventures in your post to be entered in the weekly and grand prize giveaways!

Be the community,
Amy, Irene, Anne, and Erin

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Week 4: Tradition

Tradition

If knitting isn’t synonymous with tradition, it should be.

As a craft that has been passed from generation to generation through the years, different techniques and patterns developed in various areas of the world.

Since then, technology, from the printing press to the internet, has spread knowledge of those techniques around the world.

Your Weekly Adventure

This week, take some time to learn about a knitting tradition you are unfamiliar with.

Maybe it’s Fair Isle.

Perhaps you’ve heard about Japanese knitting but haven’t looked into what makes it so special yet.

Have you tried Portuguese knitting?

Pick a tradition you haven’t tried and give it a go. Post about how it went. As you post about your research, use #woolwideadventures to be entered in the weekly and grand prize giveaways!

Your Mini Treks

  • If you’d like some inspiration, you might use Ravelry’s advanced search function and explore different knitting traditions using the Regional/Ethnic Styles attribute.
  • Hop over to oifiberfestival.com and try one of the classes from the November festival in an area you haven’t explored yet.
  • Listen to episode 20 of the I Thought I Knew How podcast to learn about Dorset Buttons, a heritage craft that can augment our finished knits.
  • Listen to episode 53 of the I Thought I Knew How podcast where Anne interviews Amy about how she learned to knit and when she began passing that skill on to others.
  • Learn why Morehouse Farm decided to grow Merinos – and what it meant for the future of the breed in America.

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

Carry on (the tradition),
Amy, Irene, Anne, and Erin

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