Shear Spirit: Ten Fiber Farms, Twenty Patterns, and Miles of Yarn | 
 enlarge | Author: Joan Tapper
Creator: Gale Zucker
Publisher: Potter Craft
Category: Book
List Price: $30.00
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 159330
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0307394034
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.432
EAN: 9780307394033
ASIN: 0307394034
Publication Date: April 15, 2008
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Product Description
An artisan who captures Maine’s summer air in her sun-and-sea-dyed yarns. A weaver and a poet whose Buddhist stupa sits near the barns of their Massachusetts farm. Two scientists turned sheep farmers whose flock grazes in the shadows of Montana’s Bridger Mountains. A Navajo sheep herder and craftsman in the Black Mesa region of Arizona whose endangered breed of sheep were rescued from extinction. These are just a few of the captivating portraits of America’s fiber farms and ranches featured in Shear Spirit.
Part coffee-table book, part inspirational work, and part pattern guide, Shear Spirit connects knitters to the yarn-producing community in a new and intimate way. Filled with stunning photographs, fascinating essays, and heartwarming profiles, this book follows the writer and photographer to 10 fiber farms and ranches across America-from the Willamette Valley of Oregon to the coast of Maine-capturing the essence of the people, places, and animals that, together, create yarn. Twenty projects featuring yarns from the farms surveyed will inspire knitters everywhere.
A visual journey to America’s fiber farms and ranches plus a rich inside look at the challenging but rewarding lives of the people who have devoted their lives to harvesting and spinning fleece into yarn, Shear Spirit takes fiber enthusiasts of all ages and interests right to the source of their common passion.
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I am knitting two sweaters out of this book November 11, 2008
Eowyn (East Coast, United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is eye candy for the yarn obsessed. And if the sheep and farm photos don't make you say "awwww..." right away, then, you have no heart. Oh, and there are great patterns in here too. In fact, breaking my record, I am going to knit two of the sweaters. One on the needles now. Love it, love it, love it.
Sheer Beauty! September 29, 2008
Patricia Danco
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I find myself at a loss for words in reviewing this book. As a fiber artist who raises sheep, spins, dyes, and knits, I was awestruck! This is a "must buy" for anyone who aspires to this lifestyle. The yarns are fantastic, the patterns are great and geared towards handspun yarn... everything about this book is just beautiful! A++++ !!!
Shear Spirit August 13, 2008
Kathie (Minnesota)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Wonderful book, a must have for any knitter/yarn lover. Beautiful pictures along with great stories from the people and animals who bring us the yarn and fiber products we love so much. Very diverse, this book features fiber farms from around the country, no two are alike. Plus this book has patterns! Who could ask for more?
Shear Spirit August 1, 2008
Frada Kaplan (NH)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Great pictures and interesting storiesShear Spirit: Ten Fiber Farms, Twenty Patterns, and Miles of Yarn
I also found a perfect sweater pattern I was looking for from one of the featured farms.
Pretty Much What I Expected July 30, 2008
Shauna (Kalamazoo, MI USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book was very much what I expected. It is meant to be more of an inspirational coffee table book than a how-to. As a handspinner, I almost wish that some of the projects were geared towards handspinners with instructions on how to make the yarn for the particular project rather than requiring the millspun yarn that the book gives (although I do understand that the people whom the book covers also want to sell their products). Overall, a beautiful and enjoyable book.
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