A Gift for the Garden: Wool Pellets
Our heaviest woolens may be headed for summer storage, but another incarnation of wool is ready for duty in the garden. Introducing wool pellets from Wild Valley Farms [https://www.wildvalleyfarms.com]. Yes, you heard me, wool pellets. We have wood pellets for stoves and food pellets for our guinea
Icebug Eide Woolpower Shoes
Let's get this out of the way right now: These shoes are only 50% wool, the rest is a synthetic mix. Which I didn't know until I'd ordered a pair, opened the box, put them on, and fallen in love. The rest of what
A Mill of One’s Own
It's Earth Day, and I'm eager to tell you about a bundle of wooly goodness that just reached me from a farm in England. It is redolent of sheep. Not the spicy fragrance of spinning oil we often equate with wool yarn, but the bright and
Where There's a Wool: The Zero-Waste Pencil Tin Set
How could a pencil tin combat clattering contents and global warming, wildfires, and plastic pollution? I tackle those questions this week with a video unboxing of the Zero-Waste Pencil Tin Set [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbW9zNExXbmRFSWk1dzJ4Xy1uNnFRRklpYUs3UXxBQ3Jtc0ttY255OU9kR1FZR3BQdmJIMmhqQ1NmNkVaNE1fTnZDZk1STTl6b3ZudzRGejNGSFdMZEhlU2pnSGQwQWY5S3JMTjNGVHJGVHNTZHpuM1psOEpBWlFjQVkxb2tuNmo4RXg0dkVNa2dXd3hXaDRrY08xNA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisdoms
A Magic Square
Get ready, I'm about to wax poetic about a $28 square of fabric. Before you say I've lost my mind, hear me out. It's been over a year since I've packed a bag and gone anywhere. Maybe you haven't either?
Allbirds, Five Years On
In 2016, a California startup with a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/3over7/the-wool-runners-no-socks-no-smell] released a product that would profoundly alter the wool landscape. The early 21st century can be divided in two: BA and AA. Before Allbirds and After Allbirds. Allbirds didn't directly
Behind the Cover Photo Montage
Every picture holds a story, and this picture holds six stories that deserve to be told. Here they are, from left to right. Those are my hands knitting a deliciously bulky, easy strip of stripes out of my Clara Yarn Cormo 3.0. It's a neck cozy and
A Tiny Sheep and Big Beginnings
Welcome to the first weekly email broadcast from The Wool Channel! We're still in launch mode. While we wait for everyone to come inside and take their seats, I thought I'd introduce you to the sheep that's been keeping me company here at TWC
