I'm done with my "must do" knitting and I'm now free to do whatever my knitting whimsy dictates. I have a few things fresh on the needles but I'll save that for once I get some proper pictres taken.

I've also been doing some spinning lately. I've been working on an idea I've been tossing around for a while...making gradient yarn. I love gradients of color--to white, to black, to another color...whatever. I think its a lovely way to explore a single color you love and since it is a simple colorway, it would leave lots of design options open for knitting. I did a lot of experimenting and finally, it hit me how to do it.

Heres the first attempt, spun up into a single about 14ish WPI:

I am totally in love. I want to get a little wider spectrum in there since there is still a lot of solid color/solid white on either side of the gradient but, my heart be still, I am enthralled. I've already carded up another set of batts and am spinning them up into some three ply sock yarn--I can't wait to get a pair knitted up to see how they look. I've got a ton more ideas like this one, which is the real reason I started up my little etsy shop--Fruity Fiber Co. There isnt much in there at the moment but once I finish spinning up the Red-White Gradient sock yarn, I'll be filling the store with more gradient batts like this one in Teal-White:

So for you spinners out there--how would you prefer to buy fiber? in 1 oz batts that you can just order as many as you need for your project or several batts together in a lot? 4 oz? 6 oz?