I know that feeling! My older sister gave me hanks of wool yarn that she had spun and after I rolled them into balls, I began knitting them into afghan squares. The raw wool is so beautiful to work with!
Three main shades, with the odd color, size and type of yarns in smaller skeins. My favorite is a skein of silk that she spun that will never be worked into anything.
“My favorite is a skein of silk that she spun that will never be worked into anything.”
I have some skeins like that, too. I keep them in a pretty old basket for decoration. Silks, some wool my MIL brought back for me from Ireland, and some expensive yarns I’d never pay top dollar for, found at thrift stores. ;)
I’d better check to see if the February Yarn Sale will be going on at my local St. Vincent De Paul Thrift store! Something many of us in the area look forward to each year!