I have 5 hats ready to go for my Hats for Warmth project to send to my local homeless shelter, and since you will notice the temps today, I will get that in the mail tomorrow!! Now to start knitting more hats. I like to have 5 or more hats to send out.
My son and his spouse went to a fiber show, several hrs away, two weeks ago, and while they were there they bought me 2 Haunui spinning roving, which is a new sheep breed to me. This sheep breed is only found in New Zealand and I have been eyeing this fiber for a while. There is a fiber artist with a small business here in the USA, Twine, that imports the fiber and carries it. He also carries the Majacraft spinning wheels. It’s a new website and he doesn’t have much up on it yet, but I will be following it for more fiber batts and drooling over the spinning wheels :P. He’s doing the fiber fair circuit at the moment so I’m sure it will be after the holidays before he has his website setup completed and will probably depend on what stock he has left after the holiday shows. I have to say this wool is soft like Merino and the one he blended with alpaca and silk is very soft!!!
I’m rushing to get the hats out to the shelter because our cold weather has hit a little early this year. Fortunately it’s just today and will warm back up to the lower 20’s and teens in the day, but this minus temperature is our Jan and colder Feb weather. The first temp is the ambient temp, the lower one next to it is the feels like temp, the next number is the dew point and the percentage next to that is the humidity.
I will be blocking the baby blanket, that I finished a couple of weeks ago and sharing a picture of it and a new baby sweater I started, in a few days. I also need to start the color work Christmas tree balls. I have put it off because I’m not a color work person and lol, it gives me a little anxiety. I know, once I start them, it will be fine. sigh
Stay warm everyone!!!
LDSVenus-knits 
I love knitted Christmas tree balls. My biggest problem is making sure they are bright enough to stand out when hung on a tree. Too much green and they just blend in.
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well this next week I’m going to make myself get started, I know, once I do, I’ll be asking myself why I didn’t start them earlier, have put off doing this for a year now LOL.
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I love that red on the bottom hat. Sometimes reds can be a bit plain but that has the deeper red bits in. I am sure every hat will be appreciated.
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Thanks, it was a heathered color and I thought it looked pretty cool as a hat :). I figure anything that keeps their ears and head warm will be appreciated and that it looks nice is a bonus :). I like it to do both :).
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Actually what looks like deeper red bits is black spots dyed in it, which I thought made it look so cool :). The color way name I thought was a bit misleading as it called it red tweed, however it’s not tweed, just black dyed spots so I guess that makes it look like tweed. I do like it tho :).
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