@bradleytmorris, thanks for the ideas. I’ve got a ton of titles and taglines, of which most are completely off the table (when I brainstorm, I come up with some weird stuff).

I *love* “The Wool Story”–but it’s too general. It could apply to any of several courses I have in mind, and more to another one in particular than this one.

“Fleece Freak’s Guide” is somebody else’s personality (and the thing is, I know who that person is–as will many of the people who might consider my course).

I DO like “A Sheep Lover’s Guide” and it might work as a lead to a main title.

Here’s a collection of my thoughts:

Woolly Wonders (too general)
Sheep around the World (this is another course)
Wools around the World (this is another course)
Wool at Your Service
Shear Magic (eh)
Shearly Splendid
One Wool to Rule Them All—Not
Wool Basics: Breeds, Fleeces, and Uses (no person/theme implicated)
Speed Dating with Wools
Which Wool for What?
Making Friends with Wools
Woolpath
A Wool for All Reasons
From Fleece to Fabric
Making Friends with Fleeces
Three Fleeces Walked into a Field. . . .
Spinning the right stuff
Making Sense of Wools
Sensible Guide to Wool Types
Take a Fleece for a Whirl
May I Have This Fleece? (cf. dance)
How about This Fleece—!
Wool: It’s not all white, it’s not all soft (but some of it is)
You mean there’s more than one kind of wool?
Wool: the long and the short, the tough and the soft, the sleek and the bouncy
From cozy to scratchy: each wool in its place
Pick the right wool, make a great project
Wools for you and for the ages
An overview of wool types: beyond what mass production gives us
Spinning yarns from different fleece types
Lamb’s wool, ram’s wool, longwool, shortwool
A quick spin around the types of wool: how to choose them, how to use them
An abundance of wools
In search of your golden fleece: which wool will make you happy right now?
From camisoles to camel halters: a wool for every purpose
A vocabulary of wools

the intelligent spinner’s guide to wool types
the curious spinner’s guide to wool types
a relaxing guide to putting the right wool in the right project
an introductory guide to wool types for fiber folk
choosing and using breed-specific wools

{used: Know Your Wool, World of Wool, Three Bags Full}

Really appreciate the feedback! I’ve been stalled out with lots of ideas and no sense of reaching even a placemarker decision. (Then again, I’m prepping to teach a week-long workshop, which involves a lot of wool-washing and writing up four accompanying handouts.)

Stephanie @sssheely , I agree that emphasis on increased crafting skills is key. The group tends to be beginners through fairly advanced–because you can be quite an advanced spinner in many ways and never have encountered more than one or two wool types. And yeah, those subtitles tend to resonate.

Bradley @bradleytmorris , I love Shear Magic, too–and I wonder if it’s the absolutely right title for another course. . . . the one on how wool is so amazing as a physical and chemical entity that it seems like magic what it can do.

Lorraine @lorrainewatson , I’ve been pondering the matchmaking aspect. It *definitely* fits with the larger scope of this class that I originally envisioned. Then I realized that I needed to break it into pieces, and the *true* matchmaking part comes in the next phase.

The thing is–I have a whole lot of courses in my mind–!

I think where I may be landing for *this* one is:

A Sheep Lover’s Guide to Wool Types:
an introductory guide to putting the right wool in the right project

The only drawback is that living as close to Wyoming as I do, there are all sorts of off-color jokes about things like sheep loving. I suspect they could be dodged. Or evaded:

A Wool Lover’s Guide to Fleece Types:
an introductory guide to putting the right fiber in the right project