Warm Wool Fuzzies

Regardless of the weather outside, I always get a warm, fuzzy feeling inside when a new shipment of yarn arrives, like this Jamieson's Shetland Spindrift yarn I received in the mail today. 

Spindrift is a lovely, rustic, fingering-weight wool with a crunchy texture,  available in a stunning array of colors. The yarn color shown above is Oxford Gray and only one of several different grays and other colors I purchased at  Knitting Camp and during a recent Schoolhouse Press yarn sale (What, you didn't know about the sale? Well, then get thee to the Schoolhouse Press website and sign up for their online newsletter!).

I'm planning to use it for some color work, hopefully a cardigan, but also some smaller accessories.

Thanks for stopping by today, I'll be curled up keeping warm and knitting at least some of the weekend away - I hope you likewise enjoy a warm and yarn-y weekend! 

Stay Cool

I love to knit with wool pretty much all year 'round, but with so much of the US and the northern hemisphere sweltering in record heat, even I've been hard-pressed to pick up the warm stuff, switching to the lightest of wool lace-weight yarns, and other, cooler plant fibers.  Despite the heat though, my preference for wool (and mohair, angora, alpaca, cashmere, etc.) has not abated and I needed a wee bit of motivation.

Hence I share this collection of cooling images, courtesy of Winter 2010/ 2011.

Remember when it was actually really cold?  

Perhaps not.  If you live in an always-warm weather area, I hope you especially enjoy the refreshing scenery.

 

OK, now back to the wool...  Enjoy and stay cool everyone!