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I love finding organizations that support traditional women’s work and find a way to provide a living for women, using these often unappreciated (and underpaid!) skills.

My new favorite find is the Kenana knitters.Kenyan women spin yarn from local sheep and then knit adorable creatures.

The stuffed animals are cute enough on their own, but add in the feel-good factor of helping your fellow woman, and you have the perfect gift for the socially responsible youngster (or young at heart) in your life!

I knew I was in when I read the title. I love funky scarves. Of all the projects to knit in a fun (or silly) yarn, scarves are the thing. While thinking about what I’d like to knit (and receive), I remembered a scarf knit by a friend out of Bananiere. Funky if I’ve ever seen it. But still, wearable.  And then it occured to me. BCB should sponsor the swap!

We’ve got a lot of new, very funky yarns on the radar for this fall/winter. This swap is the perfect way to test the waters for the yarn, and to see some things knit out of it (I always knit a swatch of every yarn we carry, but I like to see what others do with it). I talked to Scout, the swap genius, and she agreed.

So BCB is sponsoring the swap in two ways: we’re offering discounts on yarns we don’t yet carry (on a supersecret page) to the swappers and we’re holding a contest for the funkiest scarf knit from BCB yarns.

So what do I consider Funky?

How bout this:

and I love handspun yarn like this:

(from Funwithyarn.com)