It's COLD!!!! And new projects with new yarn!

Nine days of wind chill advisory. And another week of the same in the forecast. And no snow! We would love to have a snow cover. So far no big pipe bursts in the area or fires where people are trying to heat their houses with alternate methods. But it is cold. The Yorkie girls don't mind and get a bit testy waiting to have their sweaters on. Emma is terrible, she doesn't want to come in and we either have to go out after her or rattle a treat can at her. They do have a fenced in yard with their agility equipment and other toys so they can just run out to play when we open the door for them. In summer, they have a doggie door and come go and come when they want but it is through the screen and they just have to learn that we have to close the door to stay warm in winter. We have quit sending them out alone the last couple of days. We saw an Eagle circling the yard yesterday morning and we don't want him to think that he can have Yorkies for dinner.

I have been knitting away trying to catch up on gifts and models. Annika's blue mohair sweater needs to be done by her birthday. As usual I am way behind in finishing projects. I sometimes think that I am getting nothing done but then start to count projects and realize that I have finished more then I thought. There are just so many more projects in line.

South West Trading sent sample cards of some of their new yarns and also some of their older ones. I have been knitting up the samples and putting them with the card that came with them near the yarns. The old yarns have some of the new colors that will come after March 1st. I am really glad that I ordered the new colors. I knit up some of the Tofutsies sock yarn. What a nice feel and fun knit. It feels like it has a good stretch, slid nicely on my needles and didn't split at all. It has such a great fiber combination, wool, soysilk, cotton and Chitin.....Chitin is crab and shrimp shells made into fiber.
They say that Chitin is naturally antibacterial.

Time to go. The girls are hungry ;-)