The Fall Yarns Are Coming.......

Heaven help me, this is the time of year Cold Sheeping gets really, really hard.

Fall yarns are arriving.

I love the colors of summer cotton yarns, but I can resist buying them because I keep reminding myself: I almost never wear the sweaters. I am sure there is an appropriate climate for cotton summer sweaters, but it isn't here. Our summers are WAY too hot for any sort of sweater--it could be made of floss and STILL be too hot. Not to mention obscene, but that's another story. I have a secret theory that walking around with the full weight of a cotton sweater on must be good exercise, but I can really only wear them for one or two months of the year and knitting is a LOT of work for a couple wearings a year. Oh--and don't even get me started on splicing a mercerized cotton. The very thought gives me all the willpower I need in the spring and summer.

But it's fall. Sort of. Okay, it's 91 degrees here but it is September and it might be fall soon, so it's wool weather. Tweedy wools, plain wools--it doesn't matter. These are the yarns I love. The REAL test of willpower is about to begin.....

Comments

RobinH said…
The seacoast is a good place to wear summer cottons. You'll take them off in the middle part of the day, but for cool mornings and evenings, or days when there's an offshore breeze, they're perfect...the wearing season extends from late spring to early fall.

Of course I still love wool! I've hardly cracked the latest WEBS catalog- I need to be strong for that. I've got four projects OTN, a backlog of at least ten projects planned, and have a whole bagful of yarn that won't fit into my two three-gallon stash pails...I'm sensing a certain lack of sympathy here. Really for me, this is huge!
September 17, 2009 at 7:20 AM
Anonymous said…
Oh I love fall for the yarn world too! All the best new patterns come out in fall and all the new lines of yarns. I have to agree with you on the cotton sweater thing...living in Arizona doesn't allow for the wearing of anything hand-knit! If it's not a tank top, don't even bother! And I couldn't imagine knitting a cotton tank top, just to sweat through it and have to change my shirt anyway; with temps well past 110, it's not worth it.

But fall is hope that this dang heat will finally go away! I'm working on a wool sweater now so it will be ready in time for it to be cold!
September 17, 2009 at 2:03 PM
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