The color knitting booklet is finished. Now I am just waiting for the first copy to make sure it is formatted right before I can offer it for sale. I think it should be ready in about a week. If any of you out there are thinking about self-publishing, I really recommend Cafepress. The process was simpler than I expected. You need to download some free software to turn your book into a .PDF file and then just upload the whole thing. There's a message board for other self-publishers which I also found helpful.



The book is 36 pages and has twelve chapters - Stranded Color Knitting vs. Intarsia, Choosing Colors and Yarn Substitutions, How to Hold the Yarns, Floats vs. Weaving, Knitting from Charts, Tension Problems, Color Jogs, Blocking Your Knitting, Dealing in the Ends, Easy Colorwork Cap, Norwegian Star Hat, and Bibliography and Recommended Web Sites.





I used the least expensive binding method, somewhat like a comic book. The final price is $9.99 which means about $4.60 is earned for the nonprofit House Rabbit Society. The money earned will be divided - 50% will go to our regional group Four Corners Bunnies. We have a HRS fosterer who generally has about 15 rabbits in foster care, mostly received from the humane society. The other 50% will go to the Colorado House Rabbit Society in Denver. They are quite large and have their own shelter and lots of fosterers. Most of the money will go directly to them for food, shelter, and veterinary expenses but we're going to use a small amount of that money to pay postage and expenses for a program to spin and knit up shelter bunny fur products for their gift shop. I'm unsure how much bunny fur they have but once we get started that may be a blog project as well if there are people out there who'd like to either spin or knit items with bunny fur (angora as well as short-haired rabbits - some of it may be blended with wool).



Not terribly exciting but here's the cover for the booklet.