• A few new Nude Ewes?

    We're talking with the owner of a flock of Shetlands that graze one of our County Wildlife Sites, to see if we can bring them into the Nude Ewe project. We've been wanting some Shetlands for a while, and these seem to fit the bill. It would be great if ...

  • Sexy beast: Why Britain’s rare breeds could be the saviours of their species

    From The Independent There may be only a few hundred Dairy Shorthorn in Britain, but Tulip and other rare breeds of cattle, sheep and pig aren't just genetic dead-ends. As their impassioned owners explain, these beauties are the supermodels of animal husbandry – and, quite possibly, the saviours of the 21st-century ...

  • Water World: Crocheted Coral Reef Depicts Fragile Oceanic Ecosystem

    From Wired.com They’re identical twins. They’re from Australia. And they’re trying to teach the world about the fragility of coral reefs, one crochet stitch at a time. Please continue reading HERE.

  • Knitmare

    From Anywho, I digress While we were rummaging in the yarn stash, we came across a most unusual, and frankly disturbing, knitting pattern.  My knitting buddy clipped it from the Dec 91/Jan 92 issue of Threads magazine. Please continue reading HERE.

From WoW.com The Horde scarf shown above is no ordinary Horde scarf. This Horde scarf was created to be equipped during rare-spawn, cold weather action in Costa Rica. Please continue reading HERE.

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Someone on Ravelry posted this recently: how could I have not seen it before?!? Do check it out, it's fantastic! From Youtube Recently discovered footage. Sung by Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne, of www.masondixonknitting.com. Please continue watching HERE.

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From the Rare Breeds Survival Trust The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded a grant of £260,121 under its fiercely contested Skills for the Future programme to the Grazing Advice Partnership (GAP) to set up and run a national three-year conservation grazing apprenticeship scheme. Please continue reading HERE.

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From the Happiness Project Mark Frauenfelder has a fascinating book that just came out, Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World. As you can tell from the title alone, this book has a lot to do with happiness, work, DIY, and...handiness, learning to make and do things with ...

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From The Mail Online Leave it to Rihanna to make knitwear look sexy. The gorgeous popstar wore a daring wooly leotard on stage in Athens last night. She teamed the grey, off-the-shoulder number with cream, thigh-high leather boots. Please continue reading HERE.

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Saw this cute ad for the first time last week... From bigmouthmedia Ubiquitous online email service Hotmail hopes to snag some new devotees with the help of a new advertising campaign hitting London. Please continue reading HERE.

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Not sure I'd want to wear this! A lovely piece that must have been incredibly difficult to make. From O-Space Krysta Olson investigates her attraction to vulnerability, intimacy, and sadness through video, animation, photography and painting. Playing with levels of closeness she creates situations of awkward tension, pushing the viewer as well ...

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From 100 Layer Cake Jillian made her own wedding dress, including the pattern for it. She deconstructed a vintage dress to create a pattern for the bodice (the green part); sewed that, and then crocheted doilies madly for three weeks straight. She used over two miles of crochet yarn. Please continue reading ...

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From The Guardian The first Paul Taylor knew of it was when he saw tyre tracks in one of his fields behind a local tennis club, and then spotted sheep droppings on the wrong side of his fence. After dark and without anyone noticing, 100 ewes and lambs had been taken ...

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From Ecouterre Slurred speech making it difficult to communicate with the rest of the world? There’s an app for that. Please continue reading HERE.

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