The (Knitting) Cliffs of Insanity

Either I am heady with the excitement of having completed two projects and conquered purling or else I am simply insane.  Cast your votes now!

This is one of the two projects I am beginning this week:

I'm working it in a heather purple color using Vintage Chunky yarn.  It's going to take *EIGHT* skeins of it to finish it. 

This is the other project:

It's going to be done in another, deeper shade of purple (for some reason, purple appealed to me at the yarn store today). 

*breathes deeply* I have Knitting for Dummies (book and YouTube channel), Ravelry.com and Knittinghelp. I can do this.