Basket of Goodies

Kim and I filled my beautiful Martha Dreswick basket up with our hand spun yarn to put on display at the Plowshares Peace Festival in Syracuse over the weekend.  There were many admirers stroking and petting the yarns, each one unique and different than anything one could find in a yarn store.  I have no use for commercial yarn, which usually comes from dead sheep.  It feels dead, too.  Hand spun yarn has a character all its own.  It is the creme de la creme of the knitting world.  It is a direct extension of the animals I love.  As my friend Harry Kelley put it, "without our animals we are not human."