In the Footsteps of Sheep

Tales of a Journey Through Scotland, Walking, Spinning and Knitting Socks

Debbie Zawinski

Description

In the Footsteps of Sheep details the author's mission to travel and camp throughout Scotland, find cast off tufts of wool from 10 Scottish sheep breeds, then spin the wool on her spinning stick while walking (or waiting for ferries), and finally design and knit one pair of socks to represent each breed ... all the while writing about her adventures and taking plenty of photographs.

Debbie Zawinski has written beautifully about her journey; the hills, shorelines, and bogs explored; the sheep and people she met along the way; weather both foul and fair, and a particularly exciting chapter about the intriguing St Kilda archipelago and its feral Soay and Boreray sheep.

The 11 sock patterns, one at the end of each chapter, are a bonus and, and for those of us unable to gather and spin our own fleece, all were test-knitted with commercial wools. Ten of the patterns represent the different sheep breeds from which Debbie gathered her fleece, and the eleventh combines fleece from all ten breeds into one sock. The designs are knitted from top to toe with different motifs, among them colour-patterns, cables, spirals, stripes, Kilt Hose with top-turnovers, and a pair of baby booties.

Details

  • Format
    Paperback
  • Pages
    192
  • Size
    270 x 215mm
  • Publisher
    Schoolhouse Press
  • ISBN
    9780942018387
Stock Code
160350
Our Price
$59.99
New shipment due late January
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