Have you seen the lovely review Jean Moss did last week for my new book, ‘Born & Bred’? This kicked off the blog tour, which will continue until the end of March with posts from a number of fellow designers who have become valued friends of mine.
Born & Bred is the book I worked on at full speed last year immediately after completing A Time To Knit. In fact I was already fitting in work on Born & Bred months before ATTK was finished. It kept distracting me!
The book is a collaborative project with the Leeds yarn shop baa ram ewe, who asked me a year ago if I would work with them to produce a book of designs for Yorkshire wools (from Yorkshire sheep breeds). I was instantly enthused, and found it really hard to focus on doing ATTK because I was flowing with ideas for Born & Bred instead!
There were many highlights in the process of producing this book. The photo-shoot at Masham Sheep fair was a special day, not least because of the wonderfully generous-spirited Ripon City Morris Dancers, who posed for loads of photos with us in their amazing morris costumes. The floral hats (real fresh flowers) were an amazing thing to behold!
I think though that the book launch itself (three days before my knee replacement operation!) was my favourite part of the journey with Born & Bred. Verity who produced the book with me had the inspirational idea to hold the launch at Betty’s tea-rooms in Harrogate. It was a truly awesome location; Edwardian elegance with Yorkshire hospitality. We invited lots of yarn shop owners and knitting magazine editors to the launch, so the room was packed with happy wool enthusiasts enjoying champagne and canapes. The icing on the cake? Brilliant musician Roger Davies played and sang for us. Here he is singing a lovely song about my home town (where I was born and grew up). Of course, this was one of the songs he sang at the launch. He also sang a song about the town where I live now – ‘Brighouse on a Saturday Night’.
Can you tell I’m a fan?
Born & Bred is available as an ebook from my Ravelry shop, or in print from baa ram ewe.
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Your baa ram ewe link for the book in print is not linked to a product in the shop. I think they might have moved it….you can find your book in the shop, but its just that your link does not go directly there. Just thought i would let you know:). Exxx
http://baaramewe.co.uk/born-bred-p-7935.html
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The url of Born and Bred product page is
http://baaramewe.co.uk/collections/designs/products/born-bred