It’s easy these days to get your hands on a skein of handspun yarn--your local farmer’s market, Etsy, Amazon Handmade, here at Ravelry of course--there is a bounty of gorgeous, handspun yarns. I made this yarn myself, out of a purple Polyworth wool top from a sheep living somewhere in New York State. This is the farm-to-table movement for your clothes, and as you knit with handspun, you can think about the sheep that grew the wool, the hands that carded it, the wheel that spun it, the person who put hours and hours into creating this skein for you to use.

And handspun is just so very soft!