Christmas in June

The KnitPicks order arrived! Look at these goodies...

At the back, 16 balls of Wool of the Andes in Winter Night (blue) and 1 of Coal (black). These, along with either the two Cranberry (red) or Hollyberry (burgundy) - the four balls at the left - will become Peter's Christmas sweater. Probably the Cranberry, because that will make it perfectly Habs colours. Very cool.

Then from left to right, we have:
Shimmer in Morning Mist
Shimmer in Deep Woods
Alpaca Cloud in Tide Pool
Alpaca Cloud in Stream
Alpaca Cloud in Moss
Alpaca Cloud in Autumn.
All these are laceweight, some of which will become "Elizabeth I" scarves and the rest, something else lacy. The "Moss" has been reserved by Mom for her birthday gift next February (she wanted three, but is getting one. Yes, I'm mean).

Finally at the far right are two hanks of Sock Memories in Smores. SMORES! I'm gonna have toasty feet in these socks, for sure.

And that, my good Bloglanders, is the last yarn to enter this house until August. But ooh, is it ever pretty! I want to start a lace scarf and those Smores socks right away... but other things have priority right now. This evening I will be assembling Dad's cardigan. Mom's second sock is still waiting to be finished, and I really need to start those teddy bears soon. Besides, most of this is in skein form and really needs a swift to be wound properly - which I don't have. Maybe I should ask for a swift for my birthday?

In other news, we have a house! At least, we're at 99% of having a house, still a few details to iron out. But it looks good for cohabitation by the first of September. JOY!

Of course, part of the cohabitation involves each of us weeding out some non-essential "stuff", so the last week of June will be sorting and pre-packing and setting stuff aside for a yard sale in July. All good. There may be some yarn in there - some of the current stash falls under the "what was I thinking" category and really should go to a new home. We shall see.