I’ve talked about how I enjoy knitting on the blog before…so I thought I’d show my finished sweater.  I think it’s funny that for me here in Mazatlan this will be something I wear in the winter!  It’s made out of a beautiful cotton yarn that I brought with me when we moved here.

I still haven’t found a source for yarn here in Mazatlan, or I guess I should say yarn that I’d consider using.  Not to be elitist, but I just can’t handle acrylic yarn.  When you spend a lot of time making something you really want it to turn out gorgeous!

With my son and his wife in Mexico City expecting a baby this winter, I’ve been frustrated with not having yarn to knit with!  And the fact that I bought blue yarn when I was in the US this summer as they’d been told they were having a boy, and now it turns out they are having a girl!

So the solution to the yarn situation is that they are going to buy some yarn in Mexico City and send it to me!  I think it is a great solution because they’ll have input into the colors and washability and all that.  They hope to go this weekend – they went last Sunday to Crochet, a nice yarn store in Polanco, but it was closed.

But I still have the itch to knit, so I have started a hat for the baby using the blue yarn I had bought this summer.  It’s a very feminine hat, so I think I can get away with the blue, and I think I’ll make some socks or booties to go with it.  A picture from the hat pattern is below.  Isn’t it adorable?  Oh, and the baby, too?

One thing I have noticed is that even when I get frustrated with something that’s unavailable here, an acceptable workaround always reveals itself.

Now, time to gather my knitting and get ready to watch the debate this evening.