It didn't take long to get my festival fiber all spun up. I was on it that evening when I got home, and finished the next day. As a matter of fact, most of the fiber that I bought at the festival is spun up. I love to spin bright colored fiber. It is so peaceful for me to treadle on my spinning wheel and watch the colors blend together like they do. I have a ton of spun up yarn. Most is from and dyed roving that I bought on Etsy, but I've recently started dying my own fiber. While there will always be something fiber-related to learn, this seems to complete my ability to process my own fiber from start to finish. Now if I can ever seem to part with any of it or knit it into an actual garment. Right now all my skeins are in one of my huge handmade baskets. My husband asks me all the time when I'm going to do some with the yarn and my response is always the same, "But I just like to look at it." Seriously. I love to fish through the basket admiring the kaleidoscope of colors and textures.
By the way, this basket really is huge. It's 12 inches high and 15 inches in diameter. And as you can see, it's filled to the top. My goal is to eventually knit it into my own technicolor dream-sweater. But I haven't mastered the art of sweater-making just yet. Coming soon...
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