Working on various stuff, but nothing is at a photogenic stage right now. I'm doing the 2 x 2 ribbing (of which 9 inches or so will eventually need to be done) on the fitted u-neck vest. I also knit a bunch (while reading) on the Neapolitan socks.

I think the ball of yarn I got may have been defective. I've found one big knot in it (which I'll have to cut and splice when I get to it), and there have been 3 places where the yarn just....ended. It wasn't a frizzy, frayed break like insect damage; it was a clean break like the reel ran out of yarn, and they just started a new reel in. And also - if it WERE insect damage, you'd think the break would have been early on, right towards the outside of the ball, and the first break wasn't until after the first layer of yarn had been worked off. And there is no "frass" and there are none of the little "casings" like you find when you get carpet beetle larva. So if it's bug damage, it happened before I got the ball, I think. But I don't think it's bug damage, based on the evidence. (And no, I'm not going to go all CSI and try to figure out how to test for bug saliva on the yarn.)

If I had bought the yarn more recently, and from somewhere closer to me, I'd take it back or send it back. But, meh, I've knit up enough of it (I'm on the foot) that I'd not want to unravel the whole mess and send it back, either to the place I bought it or to Trekking themselves. The first break was more than midway through the leg and I figured it was just bad luck as sometimes happens with commercial yarn. The next two breaks were closer together and were on the foot, and the knot is coming up (though there's a chance I may be done with this sock before I hit the knot; it's deeper in the ball.

I may take the other two balls of Trekking purchased at about the same time (and from the same place) and run them through my handy ball-winder before trying to knit them up. You know, just to make sure I don't get any bad surprises. It's not a BIG deal to do a join (what I typically do is "knit the two ends held together" for three stitches or so, and then weave the ends in later for extra strength), but it's kind of annoying as one reason I buy self-striping yarns (rather than buying solid colors and doing my own colorwork) is to avoid having to weave in dozens of ends.

So Trekking, although I love your colors, you're On Notice, at least for now.