Today's knitting-in-the-news story comes from a farm just a half-hour drive away from Simply Knitting HQ and is reported in our local: This Is Bristol.
The headline is Our knitting gambol paid off for lamb and it's about a lamb – called Shaun – who's being hand-reared and is suffering from the cold more than his fellows. To help keep him snug, Scarlett Jones who "lives at the farm with her farmer partner Chris Marsh" and a neighbour have knitted him a sort of horse-coat style jacket and a cap.
It seems like life imitating art and is particularly entertaining as Shaun the Sheep creators, Aardman Animations, are also based in Bristol.
The piece is interesting to read – although we do wish the photo of Shaun was bigger: we'd like a better look at the knitting!
It's great to see that knitting is being used in another different and interesting way but it's a reminder of how specialized we are and how reliant we are on items being manufactured by other people. We're not saying that mass-production is a bad thing, just that it's probably the first time in history when the skills needed for whipping up a little jacket for a poorly sheep are rare enough that it's newsworthy.
