As I shopped around the NY Sheep and Wool festival, I kept in mind my need for a new scarf. Yes, you heard me...NEED. I had plenty of temptations, but only one fit the bill.
The yarn is Foxfire Cormo Alpaca Classic in colorway Sumac. I am a huge fan of Foxfire yarn. I have loved them from afar for years at the Rhinebecks of the world. Or of MY world, anyway. This was the year of the Foxfire! The pattern is called Wind Rows by Lisa Lloyd which they sold at Foxfire, lucky for me. (If you are interested in the scarf pattern, I cannot find any evidence online that it indeed exists but I'm sure that you could call and ask them. The old fashioned way!) The scarf is still in progress but is being knit fast. I can't tell you how wonderful it is to feel passion about the knitting again. It's been a while. Welcome back, knitting ennui BE GONE!
I would recommend nay! Prescribe this scarf and yarn to cure you if you suffer the symptoms.
The yarn? Soft and squishy feeling, the color saturated and rich with small variations in the colorations that add interest without being glaring! The pattern is the perfect balance of easy without being boring. (Hey LI~ The pattern is similar in technique to your Herringbone rib. I thought of you during the knitting!)(Don't forget knitters, Li's Herringbone rib scarf pattern is free for the polite asking)
Wind Rows closeup:

I can't wait to wrap it around my neck. And though that sounds a bit murderous and raging, I mean it as the highest of compliments to the scarf.

I hold this lovely yarn as a yearly pilgrimage at the Foxfire booth. It is Cormo-silk in the loveliest of natural colors (am I the only one thinking of a fashion show right now? Lovely Cormo-Silk is wearing the most classic of colors this season, Autumn mist, aka IVORY :) ) This year after the holding, I paid for it and brought it home. Finally. I have never had such a long distance love affair with a yarn before. This yarn? Heavenly. I know that perhaps I can throw that descriptive word around willy nilly when it comes to yarn but I now revoke it all times previously used and assign it only to this yarn. I mean it. This yarn has big plans to become mittens from Folk Knitting which will be twin mittens to Norma's mitts of the same. Identical twin mittens.
We are that weird, it appears.
How did this happen?

Okay, I'm over it, the weirdness.
How about blogging some cold?

Cold never looked as good as my new Refrigerator (a Frigidaire stainless look alike) especially after not having cold for over 3 days!
My kids used to call it a "FRIFFERATOR" so I can't quite get over calling it that.