No Sheep

Last night I, and a few hundred friends, attended the DKC's monthly meeting to hear the lovely and talented Amy Singer speak about her new book, No Sheep For You.

What an entertaining and informative evening. Amy was so needlessly nervous. She has an easy, funny, public speaking manner and was totally rocking the Power Point display. I expected the talk to be interesting but I did not expect to learn so much. Some educational highlights:

• Rayon is made from wood chips.


• Bamboo yarn is not spun from the fibre but processed and extruded OR as Amy would say, cooked into Goop, mixed in the spinny thing and SPIT out into strands.


• The difference between vegan and non-vegan silk.


• The fibre from cattails aka bull rushes is used for stuffing.

And on and on. She, at times, reminded me of the cool professor at university - the one whose lectures you never missed. Right on girl!

A relaxed celebrity signs her book post-talk.

Informative visual aids abounded.

The trunk show was awesome. I admit to not really appreciating the patterns when first looking through the book. Then seeing them knit up, and touching those gorgeous yarns, made me fall in love with quite a few. My favourite was River Rocks, a Syvia Harding designed scarf. Too bad I didn't manage a decent photo of the sample.