I recieved the most wonderful little book in the mail yesterday. My daughter's neighbour showede it to her, and Peggy knew right away she had to buy it for your yarn junkie mother in BC.
The book is called "At knit's End; meditations for women who knit too much" This book is written by Stephnie Pearl-Mcphee (the yarn Harlot) I have copied this verbatum from the book cover....LOL
Roger I can't remember if this is the book you talked about recently. If so I just have to re-enforce your love for this book. First of all it is a small book so you can tuck it away with your knitting, to take to knitting meetings. Each page has something to share with the knitting reader. Naturally you are knitting while you read this funny book.
OK, let me quote from page 98:
"We cannot command Nature exept by obeying her- Francis Bacon."
"So the rumors were true; there it was sitting innoncently on the shelf. Yarn made from corn. Called "Ingeo", the yarn is made from the strarches and sugars of corn and converted to a natural resin that is spun into yarn. The resulting fiber is biodegradable and can be composted to return the nutrients to the soil. It is soft, lovely, and a completely renwable resource.
Although I embrace fiber technologies that protect the Earth, I will remember that wearing an Ingeo tank top to a goat farm might have disastrous results." (end of quotation)
Each page has similar little observations we all are familiar with, because we have been there and done that or experienced that as well. I would say most of it is shared smiles. It is not a expensive book, it has the right price to give to a knitting friend.
Or go to the library and ask for it.
Els