Cool yarns for Hot Days

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Here are some cool yarns to check out on this hot day:

Yarndex Adriafil's Ice Cream
Cascade Ice
Knit one Crochet Too's Italian Ice
Handspun merino "lemonade" knitspin.etsy.com
and
Handspun merino "mellow sherbert" also knitspin.etsy.com

Relief is predicted for Chicago tomorrow. Perhaps I can sit out on the screenporch and knit for more than a half and hour at a time. I am still working on my NORO wool jacket. Today I had to take a break and work on a simple belt in cottons.

My LYS has the light up needles and I am just figuring out which size I'll use most. I wonder if I'll attract lightening bugs.......

Comments

Karen said…
Love you cool yarns list - so clever. :) Glad to hear you'll get some relief tomorrow . . . then maybe in a few days it will head our way too. Can't wait to hear your review of the light up needles. Let me know about the lightning bugs too - that would be too funny.
7:23 AM
Pat K said…
I, too, would really like to hear how well the light up needles work. Joe prefers to watch movies on TV in the dark and I've been wondering if a headlamp or lightup needles would be the way for me to cope.
8:48 AM
Anonymous said…
At least it's not 500 DEGREES! Do you like how I snuck that in? You do have my sympathies. Up in the Pacific Northwest it's a balmy 75 degrees. Keep us posted on the light up needles. Wish I'd thought of that!
Dorothy (Missouri Star)
dswaite@mac.com
7:27 PM
Webbies said…
Light up needles? Wow, that's pretty high tech. They will be perfect though when the evenings start coming earlier!
8:12 PM
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