ZOMG is an understatement
This just found its way into my home:
It was dropped of as a donation to the preschool, with the idea that kids would play with it. My director noticed that it was far too “good” for three-year-olds to use as wigs and pirate ships and art projects, so she passed it along to me. SWEET!!!!
I haven’t even looked at it, but from first glance I’m seeing some Brown Sheep, Lamb’s Pride…good stuff.
After a quick lunch I’ll be diving in my new yarn and, of course, posting an exhaustive summary here. What a fun day!
Happy St. Patrick’s day, one and all 
I’ll be back later!
::EDIT::
3 hours later…57 skeins of yarn sorted. And a photo taken of each and every one (don’t worry, I’ll spare you ).
Haven’t you always wanted a big pile of surprise yarn on your living room floor? I know I have!
I dove in headfirst. Oh baby!
I spent the first hour or so sorting the yarn–finding out what eactly I had, re-winding the ends of messy skeins, picking off bits of fuzz and dust.
When I was all done and my butt was numb from sitting on the hard floor, I had this to show for it:
So I did what any reasonable person would do: I rolled in it:
‘Twas ecstacy.
Then I licked it:
(ok, just pretending).
Then I got tired, so I took a nap among it:
Then I woke up, and cataloged it all on Ravelry 
I’ll spare y’all the exhaustive list of what what all I got, but I would like to share some of my favorites:
Lamb’s Pride Bulky:
I shit you not, I almost bought this precise yarn a couple weeks ago at Stitch Knitch’s sale. Glad I waited This shall become a hat, methinks. Or something else equally delightful. Suggestions?
Soho Bulky Tweeds:
Fingerless gloves?
Four colors of Brown Sheep Sport Weight (discontinued, like many of these other yarns):
(sorry for the blurry photo). Those will turn into four pairs of sport weight socks Before I hit the Rav…what are your favorite sport weight sock patterns?
And a sweater’s worth of Brown Sheep Nature Spun (worsted):
980 yards. That should be enough for a sweater, right? Maybe I’ll find a nice one with 3/4 sleeves, a v-neck…
And the color? I love it It’s photographing a bit more purply than it really is. It’s really a deep midnight (not blackish) blue. <3.
Think I have enough to eke out a Yosemite? If I do the bottoms of the sleeve and of the hem in a contrasting color?
The rest of the yarns are mostly assorted nigh-quality acrylic blend worsteds, and about 15 skeins of Reynolds Lopi in assorted colors.
One thing I want to do to thank my boss for giving me all of this, is make her a pair of Fetchings. There’s some Plymouth Encore in the lot which is begging to be turned into them
