Okay, this is a test send to a comment to a discussion last week re: yarn weights & Wensleydale. Let's see if this one will post! I'm guessing the term sport weight came from the idea that sweaters were >originally sport clothing - golfing sweaters and the like. I'm looking at >my old pattern books from the 1920s and so, where sweaters were all the rage >for golf and they mostly, where they mentioned gauge, used a yarn that >knitted up close to a modern sport weight. In even earlier times, sweater, >or jumpers as they were sometimes called, were known as casual or sport >suitable clothing > >Watching the Wensleydale discussion with interest. Is this to be the new >sheep fiber craze of the year like Blue faced Leceister was a while back? I >also can't even picture a Wensleydale/Merino cross. > >Suzanne @ Fire Ant Ranch >(anyone with sig line ideas?) To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
