Kitting fairy gift and new skill unlocked

 A knitting fairy enabled me to make some purchases on knitpicks (I have many knitting friends that help me out). I got a lace knitting kit and two other fixed circulars of the wooden type that I always wanted to try. I didn't really need more yarn but had to find something and saw something that looked nice and bought it.

New needles for either lace or socks, most likely socks. The Options set can only be used with those tips because they are sized that way but that's all right. The yellow wood is the Sunstruck style and the other is Painted wood, size 2 and 1 respectively
 

This is what I thought I was getting. Nothing too dark, nice multi colors and would make a nice pair of socks.

This is what I got. That is not a Happy Valley, that is a Dark Valley at sunset. I just emailed the company with my complaint, they're usually pretty good on customer service as I told them I would be happy to send them an image of what I received. That picture is on my white desk with an overhead light and an open window with natural light coming in. Can't say it's dark because of lighting.

In other news, I am almost done with the second orange sock. Only six more rows until I change to two rows of orange and then two of multi and then the cuff yay! I tried to resist starting another project but wanted to try doing two socks at a time. The video I found made it look relatively straightforward even for toe up. I just so happened to have ordered that lace knit kit that has a 40" cable.

Test project with the sparkly sock yarn, got the muscle memory figured out then cut that loose and remembered the wonderful light colored 'rainbow sherbet' yarn that was already caked with both ends available. A bit fiddly with the yarn ends all over the place but I managed to make a tiny center pull ball from the inside yarn so I could free up the outside end. There's a video about making a center pull yarn, and although it's educational, a bit dicey using this small a yarn but it worked. I just tucked it into the center making sure the yarn was pulling free.

Will update on that once I have more of the toe done, but also want to see about a not very lacy but cool stitch for the top of the foot and leg. Even as exciting as that yarn is visually, still want to dress it up a bit, which brings me to another happy acquisition. A library card to check out knitting books!

Not the book I wanted but the only one my local library had, I've already marked pages of stitches I'm considering. Even with this, I'm still whining about not having my three stitch encyclopedias with three pages of different rib patterns.

I'll figure something out, but it's not going to be anything too complicated due to having two different socks going on at the same time and I don't like anything bulky in my shoe part. 

So that's my knitting update, really excited about doing two socks at a time as that will cut the finish time in half hopefully.