[Jacob-list] excellent reading for knitters and wool lovers

[Punkin's Mom]

I second this!  In fact, I just purchased the book this morning after someone read aloud "Good Morning Class" at a spinning meeting yesterday :-).  

Sara Dunham
Cynthiana, KY
www.myfavoritesheep.com 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ralene Mitschler 
  To: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com 
  Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 1:01 PM
  Subject: [Jacob-list] excellent reading for knitters and wool lovers


  Have found the perfect book about wool---

  "What's not to love about wool?  For starters, think of one incredible fact.  The world has come a long way, and astonishing and intriguing machines arrive every day, but there is still not a machine on this earth that will shear a sheep.  Every ball of wool starts with some man or woman somewhere in the world, a complete stranger to you, holding fast to a pissed-off sheep while cutting its fleece free.  Every single ball.  Just imagine it.  Every ball of wool you and I have ever knit, all the balls of wool in the world in every country in the whole history of the world thus far, came from the sweat and grit of a person wrestling a hot, dirty, furious sheep." 

   page 121 of Yarn Harlot:  The secret life of a Knitter by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee.

  I am reading this book aloud to anyone I can make captive!  The dogs and cats are hiding.....  Even the Jacobs sheep won't come near their treats if the book is in hand....but it is the best thing I have read in years.  I am hoping for the play and the movie now  : ) 
  Ralene
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  Ralene Mitschler
  Chicory Lane Farm Jacob sheep
  www.blueflowerflock.com
  687 Oxford Ave
  Hanover PA  17331
  rmitschler at gmail.com
  717.630.2988
  717.817.3794 cell




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