Day 2 of the Wool Lover Blog Hop

Did you visit yesterday’s participating bloggers? If not, click here for the schedule so you don’t miss anything. Knitted purse, tooth fairy baggie, pincushions, socks, crochet pincushions, coasters… Wow, there is so much to learn!

Speaking of learning, I recently read that originally sheep were more hairy than wooly. Isn’t it wonderful that natural selection ensured more wooly sheep thrived so we could have all this fun today? Granted, sheep are not the only animals we get wool from, but we had to start somewhere… Nowadays we can even knit with… possum fur! Possums are a huge problem in New Zealand – they have no predators and are eating up all the trees, also destroying the population of Kiwi, a flightless bird native of New Zealand. So, possum fur helps the knitting industry and saves the bird, too.

Possum merino is sooooo soft! I have two knitting projects going on, and as soon as I finish them I will get some Possum merino wool and make a vest for myself, as the other projects will be gifts (what else is new?).

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