It's warm in South America

Brrr!! These are the days we knit for! It's 5 degrees outside with a wind chill of -13. I'm a southern girl who is definitely not used to this. I'll be staying inside today. The dogs didn't want to stay outside for long, and even stubborn DS15 wore his heavy coat to school.

I am done with my gift knitting --Yea! I'll share pictures of the last project after Christmas. I started on a pair of gloves for myself. No rush on this project.

The yarn is Heritage Paints by Cascade, a hand painted sock yarn, but I think it will work up into nice light weight gloves (8 sts/in). The colorway is 9848, and it blends with the blues in my parka pretty well. I had seen this yarn at Twist several times in the evening, but when I was in the shop one afternoon, the daylight made all the difference in the colors and I had to have it. 

Looking for last-minute gifts for the impossible-to-buy-for? One of my favorite charities is Heifer Project International, and over the years I have given shares of all kinds of animals as gifts to those hard-to-buy-for folks on my list. My favorite heifer donation is toward a knitting basket, just because knitting has always been so near and dear to my heart. I've noticed that the last couple of yarns I have bought (Araucania Toconao and Heritage Paints) are both from South America, a continent where HPI is very active. I think it would be really cool to knit with yarn that came from heifer gift sheep or llamas. Hmmmm, it's summertime down there now, and the sheep are shorn. I hope/bet they are spinning more great yarn!

I keep telling DH that our ultimate vacation would be to go to South America. He could fly fish and I could get lost in yarn. Maybe when the kids are out of college....

Stay warm and happy knitting!