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20090827 Thursday August 27, 2009

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Want to save the planet – or just can't wait for the postie to arrive? Well, now you can subscribe to both Simply Knitting and The Knitter digitally.

A digital subscription – or buying a single issue of a magazine in digital format – means that you will get your magazine online, you will not get a printed-paper copy through the post.

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Digital issues are easy to refer back to and only take a bit of computer space to store, so it's the perfect solution for a knitter on the go.

There's a sample issue available, so you get a feel for how the process works. Here are a some of the features we like:
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Updated 28/08/09 to add: We've just been told that if you subscribe via Zinio, you will not get the supplements published with the print magazine. And, of course, as you won't get a print copy, you won't get the cover gift, either.

Updated 8/09/09 to fix links.

Favourite sheep at Fibrefest

I had hoped to have some photos of Fibrefest to show you, but my husband hasn't finished processing them. If you went, I'm sure you'll have had a fun day too. My favourite thing of all was a sheep. It's lovely seeing fibre-producing animals at yarn events; it really makes you look at natural fibres in a new light and really understand knitting's connection to the seasons and landscape. Anyway, there were some beautiful alpacas there, including a suri alpaca. I'd never seen one up close before. Unlike the more usual 'woolly' sort of alpaca, suris have locks of silky hair that hang down instead of standing out all over the body. There were Shetland sheep, Gotland sheep (Deb the editor liked those) and, my favourite, the Exmoor Horn.

The great thing about the Exmoor Horn was that it was a chubby, round-faced sort of sheep, and the big ram was happy to be patted. He had magnificent curling horns and, all in all, looked the way you'd expect a sheep to! He even seemed to have a smiley face, although I suspect he probably wasn't happy at spending his weekend in a pen instead of in a field with all his woolly lady friends.

We are so lucky to have all these lovely animals producing fibre – I'm definitely going to try to work more with naturally coloured wool in future!

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