SIPs (Socks in Progress)

I can hardly wait to wear these socks - these are Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride worsted in Wild Violet with accents in Knit Picks Wool of the Andes in Carrot. The Wild Violet is a color that absolutely perfectly plugs into the purple receptors in my soul. I am going to stock up on this color for sure. I already have it in both the worsted and bulky. There's another new Brown Sheep color that goes quite nicely with the Wild Violet - Pistachio, a pale green. I am seeing a Wild Violet hat with Pistachio accents. Can I write Wild Violet one more time? Even the name is a delight to me!
I have also finished one of the socks in the Cascade 220 dark pink and light orange. Cascade colors have numbers, not evocative names.

Not sure if I ever posted this Noro Iro scarf - I bought a couple of skeins on eBay at a very good price, just to use to play with the yarn, make a few different swatches, etc. I did that, then used the remainder to make a scarf, finished mid-December, I think. It's nice and long and I do love this yarn, kind of bulky, a combination wool (80%) and silk (20%):
A while back, I couldn't resist picking up a couple of skeins of this alpaca:

I haven't yet decided what to knit with it, but there's something special about knowing not only the person who raised the alpaca (Jane Connor who used to direct the Terre Haute Children's Choir my daughter sang with one year), but having a picture of the actual alpaca who grew the fiber himself.

Gloomy and gray and rainy for the first half of the day and now it's snowing. Clover is snoozing nearby. While I felt rather low (due to light-deprivation more than anything else, I think) earlier, I have eaten lentil soup and rosemary bread and eaten chocolate cookies, and my mood is looking up a bit. Snow is an improvement over the rain, too. I think I am ready to turn the heel on that second Wild Violet sock...