Yarn anxiety

After all of my thinking that I had plenty of yarn in my attic stash but than I went and looked at it. I had a lot but not a lot of sock yarn with enough yardage for large mens size socks. My dilema was solved with a trip to my local yarn store. I planned to purchase enough yarn for two pairs but ended up with enough for 4 pair. This is the first yarn, a wonderful regia superwash. It feels very soft and is knitting up wonderfully with nice self patterning. I've done 2 inches of k1p1 rib and am moving on to the k2p2 rib for the remainder of the leg. No fancy stitching for this yarn. The pattern is what will show in the finish.

At work today there was a two hour meeting. The day prior at the yarn store they had bagged up yarn and a pattern to make baby hats for the local hospital. I got a kit and brought it with me to the meeting. Two hours later I had made a large size baby hat with a cute i-cord knot on the top. I went to take it's picture tonite and realized it's sitting on my desk at work waiting to come home. Promise of a picture tomorrow. The best thing about baby hats is that one skein goes a long way. I'm sure there is at least two more hats in that skein.
More excitement, when I got home tonite my new issue of "Cross Stitcher" magazine had arrived. It was jam-packed with great projects. I really loved the quick stitch cards that came as the extra gift. There were 11 laminated cards with christmas patterns all designed to be completed in just one evening. The two pictured are a sample of the ones I liked. They came with a ring so you could take it with you and none of them use more than 10 colors of floss. I can already see my self pulling floss and fabric for these patterns. We'll see how it goes by the holidays. Who will get the custom cards this year.