Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a manageable holiday season without too much stress and strain, and possibly even some enjoyment!
Mine went well, better than I expected. I struggled a bit with "buy more things for all the people" that was running through my brain on a constant loop, but I think I did okay. I definitely did really well in the receiving department. I was quite spoiled; gift certificates to three yarny places, knit blockers (which I cannot wait to use) two colouring books (love them! and it's been a nice way to spend time with B-we colour together in the morning and it's super chill)  two teapots-one  clear glass teapot, with a bunch of flowering teas and a gorgeous deep red tea pot, pajamas and a shirt. Plus, a skein of bulky weight baby alpaca in a lovely purple that I'm using to knit some super luxurious slipper socks.  It was slipper socks or a shawl, but I want to wear this yarn right friggin' now and the shawl won't knit up as fast as slipper socks. I also received a pink himalayan salt lamp (I keep licking it-it's very salty. I think the licking is a reaction to all the sugar that's been in the house) and an oil diffuser, and last but not least, a taxidermied bat! It's super cute with it's little face, i'm in love!
Pictures of some of the stuffs:
                                          Lovely, clear tea pot with some flowering jasmine tea!

                                          Gorgeous red teapot!

                                          Yay Knit Blockers!!

                                          Baby Alpaca-so so nice! (wound because must knit it right now!)

                                          Essential oil diffuser (currently using lemongrass eo-yum)

                                          Himalayan salt lamp.

                                          Fancy scissors and measuring tape (can never have enough of either)

                                          Colouring with B, superheros for him, folk art for me.

                                          Bat! (still in package until I figure out where he belongs)

Due to the insanity of the holiday (shopping, cleaning, cooking, celebrating, everyone home) I've only got one finished object, and it's just a sock.

I did manage to get some knitting done on my "cropped" sweater by Andi Satterlund. I put cropped in quotation because I do not wear cropped sweaters, so I elongated it, had to do some increases to accommodate these hips-but the body is done and bound off. YAY. The sweater needs sleeves, but I haven't decided yet if I'm going to change to the second colour like the pattern calls for. I didn't change to the second colour during the body, as I forgot about the colour change until I started ribbing, and didn't feel like ripping back. Also, undecided about the neckline. I like the unfinished neckline, it's got a bit of a roll neck feel to it and I think it looks cute, but maybe it will look weird when I've knit the sleeves? I guess I'll find out eventually.
                                          Last Sunday stitch&bitch, worked on the sweater with mah knitta and mah Timmies, a much needed Sunday break from insanity...speaking of, is it Sunday yet?

What did I finish in 2015? I *think* I listed everything, but i'm not positive and I'm not double checking-I've posted an awful lot since the beginning of last year, going through it all once was enough.

Finished objects I have knit since the first of January 2015:
-second vanilla latte sock (vanilla-latte-socks)
-maize mittens (2nd time)( maize-3)
-Twist hat (lost pattern, maybe Malabrigo)
-Askew (for the third time) ( askew)
-Mittens for B (lost pattern)
- slippers for B (family-foot-warmer-slippers)
-Easy V-neck (with lace pattern added) (easy-raglan-v-neck)
-Dew Point shrug (dew-point)
-Hitchhiker (x2) (hitchhiker)
-bunch of bats (boo-the-bat)
-Optimistic Mitts (optimistic-mitts)
-vanilla socks in Turtle Purl Twilight
-vanilla socks made  with Knit One Crochet Two in Cream
-Sinnesfrid (sinnesfrid)
-Be simple (be-simple-variations)
-vanilla socks in Biscotte&Cie melon d'eau
-one vanilla sock in Biscotte&Cie charivari
-one pixie dust dock in cascade heritage blood orange
-Nivernais (nivernais)
-Vite Cowl (vite-cowl)
-Aiken sweater by Andi Satterlund (aiken)
-vanilla socks in Biscotte&Cie Arc en Ciel
-dino cat hat (dinosaur-7)
-Skoodlet (skoodlet)
-Autumn in Garrison (2nd one) (autumn-in-garrison)
-Super hero mask (superhero-mask)
-Zuzu's petals (zuzus-petals)
-Lomond hat (x2) (lomond-hat)
-Infinity scarf knit from Illimani
-Maize mitts (third time)
-infinity scarf made with Debbie Bliss Paloma
-Basket Whip cowl (basket-whip)
-Chullo hats with alpaca (x2)
-Leethal Mary Jane slippers (x4? x5?) (leethal-mary-janes)
-kitty pumpkin hat (can't find the link, done by Sara Thomas)
-vanilla socks knit with Misti Alpaca Chocolato
-Mittens for B (x2) lost pattern
-Ear flap hat for B (childs-earflap-hat)
-Andi Satterlund bulky cowl (a-bulky-cowl)
-Antelope hat (antelope-hat)
-1 and a half  vanilla socks in Manos Del Uruguay Cabaret
-Virpi shawl (virpi-2)
-Calorimetry (calorimetry)
-one sock knit with Felici Fanciful

Works in Progress:
-a butt-ton of second socks
-"cropped" sweater (a-cropped-sweater-for-winter)
-Greenfield cardigan (greenfield-cardigan)
-*Foot Ovens (by Stephanie Pearl Mcphee-modified to be knit cuff down) (foot-ovens)

*I started these late Thursday afternoon (yesterday) I'm knitting them with the Baby Alpaca Sport-which is a bulky weight 100%  baby alpaca wool. The colour i'm using is called Rosemary Heather. It's very lovely. I'm enjoying knitting with it. I've paired it with some stashed kp Swish Bulky in Aegean because my feet are ginormous and I'm worried about running out of the lovely, lovely alpaca. So, I'm knitting the cuff, the heel and the toe in the aegean (which is a teal-y colour), and the leg and foot in the rosemary heather. It looks really pretty, as the rosemary heather has tiny flecks of teal in it!

This post took a hella long time to write out, with the links and the pictures; taking away from valuable knitting time, now I'm going to go finish my foot ovens!