Yarn diet- free pass 2

I have worked out (probably I am a little slow here) the five free yarn diet passes from the 1st January to 1st June is one yarn purchase a month. So this is the yarn purchase for February, if it were a food diet this would be much like having a large slice of tasty chocolate cake (I was going to take a photo of some cake, but I ate it before I remembered!).
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Mostly I would like to say omnomnomnomnomnom

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I did have a good reason for this lot, most of my A-Z sock patterns need single colour or subtle changes, and what I have in my stash could well be described as a riot of colour. There is little point spending hours on cables and lace if neither can be seen through the colours, so plains it is.

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I also had a bit of a dilemma about where to order from, there were three yarns I wanted to try and no shop seemed to sell all three. In the end I settled on Great British Yarns, because they are the only place to get Knitpicks over here and I really wanted to see what it was all about (shop review next week).

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The two blue skeins are Knitpicks gloss, 50g in each, it is a merino and silk mix.

The red is Knitpicks Stroll Tonal, it is shades of tasty red and a superwash merino and nylon mix. I actually prefer this to the Gloss, although it is the slightly cheaper of the two I think it is smoother, maybe a result of the superwashing (both very nice though).

The other two are UK yarns, the charcoal is an Alpaca mix for socks made with alpaca merino and nylon.

The undyed is the most gorgeous organic merino 4 ply, spun by waterwheel in Cornwall. I bought it to be socks, but I think it is not really spun tightly enough, to be honest I could just sit petting it, it is softer than a very soft fluffy bunny!

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I also managed to not buy yarn, despite going to two places where it is sold and driving past a third. I think I may not even need to do a March purchase!