Stash Enhancement

Latest yarn purchase just came rolling in: 1 skein of Malabrigo worsted in Stonechat, and two skeins each of Tonalita in colors Flower and Stone & Ash from Yarn Country.

I have a skein of Pearl Malabrigo to go with that Stonechat, and I'm going to be turning them into a Center Square before long. (This year, I seem to have a thing for hats... Especially since the Tonalita are both slated to become Short-Row hats.  .. Minus the little i-cord at the top, but. Same pattern.)

Other good things: Also purchased some Noro Silk Garden, but traded it to a knitter friend for some sock-size circular needles -- She says she has the better end of the deal, which is probably true. The colors were fabulous, but the yarn didn't have enough softness for me to know what to do with it -- I'd rather it found a new home where it won't languish in the stash for eternity,after all. (And, I'm used to working with witchy little DPNs, so the circulars should be just fine for me.)

Now, confession time: These hats-to-be are Christmas presents. So my stash enhancement is really more for selection of gifts.

Lastly, I miss my spinning wheel. I really need to finish putting the finish on the thing, but the humidity this summer's been leaving me in despair: I suspect I'll have to re-sand the parts, which is really very disheartening, but I also can't put the varnish on in this weather because it'll never dry in the muggy wet conditions. (Big, big sigh.)
And I have all this roving lying around, begging to be turned into something, and all I've got are my handspindles.

... My handspindles are lovely, don't get me wrong. I'm just still not entirely sure I've got the talent to make more than fifty or a hundred yards of yarn. (And not all on one spindle, either. Aw.) Plus, those are singles, and I'm still kind of erratic, and... Whine, whine, complain, mope, you get the idea. ;) Which probably means I should be handspindling, darn it, because then I'd get better at it.

Another Christmas project this year: Socks.
I haven't really tackled socks recently, and it's frustrating to me: I was having fun with my two-at-once socks, but that project seems to have fallen out of my knitting bag and took my favorite sock double-point needles with it. (Grumble.) It's high time I tried them again, especially with as many socks as I have in my Ravelry queue.