two years later

It's taken me as long as a new season of BBC's Sherlock to post on this thing again.  Egads.  As always, I have too much yarn, too many project ideas and not enough time or motivation to do it all.  I will say I am currently working on a mobcap (pattern from an issue of Jane Austen Knits).  It's the first hat that I will knit and there are all kinds of challenges for me.  I've never done M1 or knit on double pointed needles, etc.  Plus I'm using my "nice" yarn - the stuff that cost me $30 a skein at the Fiber Fest last year.  I'm always scared to use it because it's expensive and I want whatever I do with it to turn out really nice.  So to me it feels risky to try so many new things using the "good stuff".