I have five projects on knitting needles right now. (Well, five I’m working on. There are probably two or three others languishing somewhere, ignored for the time being.) Of the five active projects only one is a bag, and it’s small and nearing completion, so I’m planning/designing/trying to envision the next bag type project. I’ll try to make good progress on a couple of the other going projects first, leaving the scarves for when I’m really bored (that’s rare!) or when autumn (far off now) approaches.
I used to have many, many craft projects (crochet, beading, quilting, sewing, tatting, weaving, embroidery, knitting) going all at once. I love starting projects, trying new techniques, working with new fibers, especially natural fibers. It got to the point I felt as though I made no progress on any of my projects, so, a few years ago, I gave away or discarded all the ongoing projects I knew I’d never finish. And I got rid of some yarn, too. It was hard, but I managed to part with skeins and skeins of yarn I’d had for years and knew I wasn’t going to use.
I let go of a lot of acrylic yarn I’d bought to crochet afghans, since I rarely crochet afghans any more. I already have an ample supply of afghans I crocheted when that’s what I was doing…for a couple of decades. I also parted with my rigid heddle loom, most of my weaving books, quilting books and a lot of other crafting books and supplies, all things I became sure I wouldn’t use because of my one and only true love, knitting. I kept a generous supply of knitting, crochet and other craft supplies and books (and, yes, some things for purely sentimental reasons), and I feel I’ve come closer to having what I really need to knit and craft, instead of having things I used to want.
Now my yarn collection, although still quite voluminous, consists mainly of natural fibers and natural fiber blends. After I learned to knit in 2007, I started buying and using mostly natural fibers and/or quality man-made fibers blended with natural fibers. That’s a habit, once begun, I found impossible to break. Higher quality fibers are a sweet pleasure to work with, and they produce higher quality finished products. Also, high quality natural fibers, which come from a variety of animal and plant sources, are readily available in an amazingly vast array of colors, weights and textures. The versatility of the art of knitting partners well with the versatility of natural fibrous materials.
I started this post with the intention of showing the progress of a particular project I couldn’t resist starting. We have an oh-so-attractive and non-functioning (at the moment) appliance called a ‘swamp cooler’ in our new home. I might be glad to have it when the weather is warmer, but meanwhile it’s an eyesore, an unwelcome, flat, blank plastic face. So I’m making a tapestry to cover it, with this gorgeous mighty chunk of yarn that’s been on my shelf for years.
Ahhhhhh! I’ve wanted to use it all the years I’ve had it, but I wasn’t really sure what to do with it: twelve skeins of twelve different yarns, forty yards each. (Four hundred and eighty yards total!) I wound each yarn into a ball, combined three of the fibers and began to knit on my size 19 needles.
Oh! What fun!!!
As I come to the end of one ball of yarn, I select and attach another. Here’s where I am now. I’ve knitted about eight inches in a variation of a (K2Tog, YO) stitch.
Beautiful textures from the stitches and the yarns!
Fiber of Being 
I love that yarn, beautiful colors. What brand and color? Looks like all of my colors that I like.
Margaret, I sent you some info in a FB message. I bought the yarn years ago at Stitches South in Atlanta, and I have not been able to find any current information about this specific yarn. And I’ll try to provide some more info as I continue work on the tapestry.
I went to SS 3 yrs. and have 3 big bags of yarn. Have started winding it into cakes. Will never get it all knitted but always looking for more. Can”t help it. That yarn you are showing is beautiful.