Category: Woolwideadventures2021

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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