Happy New Year! Happy New Yarn!

 I hope whoever is reading this other than me has plans for yarn and projects for the year. I am planning on finishing two hats and two pairs of socks by the end of the year. Will see what happens. I tried to promise myself to work on the UFO's in bags but those are all bigger projects with charts that really need about two hours to dedicate figuring out where I am in the pattern and then doing at least one row. Right. On with new projects instead!

Have just been plugging along on the socks, got the replacement needles for the green socks so those are now on the ribbing, which I started too soon. Oh well, they may be for me anyway so I don't mind.

I had some money gifted to me for Christmas and tried to be frugal with the extras after the important non-knitting things were paid for. I got the replacement needles and splurged on two skeins of worsted weight yarn from Arcane Fibreworks. YAY!

But before that arrived I couldn't help it and cast on for the next pair of socks. For timing I cast on Jan 5 for these socks. So far I love the way the yarn is working up, it's nice and bouncy, the colors aren't pooling since it's a speckle and they keep my interest when a new color pops up. I decided on using the 'Sheepicorn' yarn because I wanted something light colored to work with for a change. The green socks are fine but the confetti dots on white called to me so now I'm almost done with the toe increases and my new yarn arrived!

I asked my son what colors from the Arcane website he wanted for a hat, he picked out the green one which is, 'Till Death Do Us Part' (on the right) and his friend/roommate picked out 'Neon Nights' on the left. They picked out two other choices but I went with these due to the other colors being a bit darker and will be using the 'Citrus Hat' pattern. Nice easy wide rib pattern so it will show off the colors the best. 

I haven't worked with worsted weight yarn in ages so this seems really thick to me, but I have the needles set aside already for the first hat. I'll be posting pictures of each stage along the way because the colors really are very much like the photos on the webpage. I'm very happy with them and looking forward to seeing how the colors work up in the hats.

Other than that, I figured out how to work around the new layout for Blogger, slightly different method of shifting the photos but it's working out. When there's progress I'll post but when there's nothing exciting happening not really worth posting.

May your yarn never tangle and your gauge always be right.