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20081021 Tuesday October 21, 2008

Hot guys, cool yarns



Knitter, blogger, photographer and cartoonist extraordinaire Franklin Habit aka The Panopticon has once again shown that it's not just us girls who are fibre freaks – guys definitely have the same yen for yarn.

Check out his Etsy shop for this sensational Guys With Yarn 2009 calendar. For only US $28 (including shipping to the UK) you can have handsome guys and lush yarns adorning your wall all year round!

While some of the models are topless, this is not an explicit calendar so if page three is considered work safe in your office, this should be totally fine, too – although some bosses might think you're a bit odd for caring about the yarn!

Franklin has a new book out, It Itches: A Stash of Knitting Cartoons and will be at IKnit in London on 13 November to promote it, so if you like his selection of hunks, don't forget to drop by and tell him! You can save on postage by picking up a copy of the calendar on the night, too – he might even sign it, if you ask nicely!

Bargain lace yarn

I love a good yarn bargain. People always expect us to run off with the office yarn, but the yarn you see in the magazine is all for magazine use, so the Simply Knitting team shop for their personal yarn like everyone else. Anyway, one firm I have great trouble resisting is the Natural Dye Studio, and they're discontinuing their Venus lace yarn so they've discounted it by £2 per skein, so it now cost £8.99. There's a special sale page for it here.

Now the credit crunch is biting, I've been thinking much harder about the yarns I'm buying – not just in terms of cost to myself. Where the fibre in the yarn comes from, where it's spun and where it's dyed
are increasingly important. For one thing, there's the welfare of the sheep: mulesing isn't practiced in Britain. Then there's supporting the sheep farmers, the indie dyers and the local communities that they're part of. All that from a skein of yarn!

Do you have a favourite local producer or dyer? It would take me forever to list my favourite British hand-dyers, but I'm always looking for new names to add to my list of firms to shop with!

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