World's Longest Scarf
for Keep The Fleece Project
Okay! Our team for knitting on The World’s Longest Scarf as part of the Keep The Fleece project is called Long Ridge Farm.
Click here to read more about Keep The Fleece and The World’s Longest Scarf project. All the scarves, knit by teams across the country and beyond, will be joined together at the NY Sheep and Wool Festival (Rhinebeck) in October of this year. The recommended donation by a knitter is $1 per row or $10 per inch knit. Team captains will keep a scarf journal and be in charge of collecting the monies raised. All of the monies raised will be given to Heifer International to help fight global hunger and poverty. One section of scarf 9” wide and five feet long will purchase 5 sheep for a family so what a great way to knit and give!
Yes, you can use handspun yarn! My name is Nancy Zeller, of Long Ridge Farm, and I accept the job of Captain for the Long Ridge Farm team! Please contact me if you want to become a member and get started. For our team it can be CVM/Romeldale fibers or if you do not have CVM/Romeldale you may use something else. I have yarns that I will donate and send forward for those that become a team member and want to knit with CVM/Romeldale. I will start a scarf at the CT Sheep and Wool Festival, April 25th, 2009 where attendees can start knitting on it, either by the row or by the inch. I will take it with me to the NH Sheep and Wool Show, May 10th and 11th, 2009. If you sign up as a team member you have the option as a Long Ridge Farm team member to start and knit your own section, collect the donations and return all to me by September 1st, 2009 to wrap up and take to Rhinebeck in October. Just let me know which option you choose.
Please read below regarding the scarf guidelines if you chose to work your own section for the Long Ridge Farm team. Obviously the heavier the yarn weight the faster the knitting, the more inches are knit, the more money is raised! I will be knitting light worsted to worsted weight.
For those Long Ridge Farm team members that want to work their own section to later return to me by 9/1/09, here’s the knitty gritty! PLEASE SIGN UP WITH ME SO I CAN COUNT YOU IN!!
Start your scarf – remember to work out your gauge so the scarf is 9 inches wide. Each row of the scarf represents a suggested $1.00 donation per row. (Weavers and felters can calculate at a recommended rate of $10 per inch.)
It doesn’t matter how long your scarf section is, but it is recommended to have them in 5 foot sections. However, once all the sections have been tied together and displayed in a place of national prominence it will eventually be untied and individual scarf lengths will be donated to people who need them. Longer sections may be auctioned to raise more sheep dollars and add to the herd!