I wanna be gifting-along (sounds better than gift-alonging!)

One of the perks of being a participating designer in the Gift-Along event is the chance to see which other designers are joining in too by looking over the sign-up list before it goes public. It means that in the frantic rush to get everything in place in the few days between sign-up and start, I've been able to take a good look through the designers' sale bundles to see which patterns I want to buy to take advantage of the 25% discount at the start of the Gift-Along. My Ravelry queue is growing by the day! I have seven patterns in my shopping cart already, just waiting for the giftalong2015 coupon code to activate, and I'm sure there will be more before the event is over.

Here are the yarns I'm planning to use for the first of my GAL projects. Yes, first! I suspect I'm being over-ambitious but I'm hoping to get lots of knitting done before 2015 is finished.
So what is for what? Ah, now that would be telling!! Once the GAL starts and those patterns are safely on my virtual library shelves, then I'll start to feature my choices, but in the meantime here are some clues.

One of these yarns is for a hat, two are for socks, one is for a sweater (kind of obvious which yarn in the photo that might be, but the pattern itself is still a surprise!) and the last is for a bag.

Now that I've chosen which patterns I want to buy first and which yarns I want to use first, I just have one choice to make - which project to cast on first on Friday after work!