Knitting for the wrong season

I know I have said it before.  I ought to be knitting for summer in January and winter in June.  That way, the things I start will be ready to wear when the season arrives.  

Instead of thinking about those light, cool to the skin yarns, I really ought to be thinking of warmer things.  Things like this

From left to right, top row and clockwise, Harrisville Flax and Wool, Cascade Eco +, Noro Silver Thaw, Cascade Eco, Needful Yarns London Tweed, and several colours of Briggs and Little Regal.  These are yarns that I like to think of as substantial sweater yarns.  They are not all heavy weight, in fact most of them don't go outside the 4 or medium weight category, but they all will make substantial warm sweaters.  

I have many more options.  Plotulopi, Royal Tweed, Mission Falls, Prairie Wool,   RCY Aran,  Berroco Remix, Ultra  Alpaca.  These are just the yarns I can see as I sit here at my desk.  I am blessed with a very lovely stash.  A lovely, lovely stash.  

It might be a while till one of these gorgeous things jumps up and demands to be knit first, though now that I think of it, there are the occasional whispers that are heard outside the closet.  

Though my 'what to knit next' dreams are all warmer weather wear, I know all too well, that much of Canada is a place where sweater weather is only as far away as sunset.   Wool.  Keep it close at hand.