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Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Update on my book and all things related to qiviut
I'm excited to say that Arctic Lace is written and delivered to my publisher. Now the fun continues, as my writing and Dom's photos get turned into a beautiful book by Deborah Robson and Rebekah Robson-May at Nomad Press.
I was very surprised the other day while visiting a museum at Rocky Mountain National Park, to see tiny musk oxen looking out at me from a display case. I was looking at miniature mammoth, and next to it stood two small animals that seemed very familiar to me. It took a couple of minutes for me to realize I was looking at musk oxen. It turns out that an ancient species of musk oxen, Bootherium cavifrons once roamed my home state of Colorado. What a surprise!
Colorado is also home to JConklinDesigns, the distributor for qiviut yarn from Wind Valley Musk Ox Farm. The farm, owned by John and Diane Nash is in Palmer, Alaska. I didn't get to visit them last year because they had just had triplets and I didn't want to invade on their privacy during this important time of their lives.
Lastly, I've recently discovered a qiviut knit-along. If you want to get started knitting with qiviut, and are too excited to wait until 2006 for <i>Arctic Lace</i> to come out, check it out here:
