Clearly in prepping for fall yarn mode. 
I watched the second episode of Great British Bake-off last night….(mild spoiler follows for Sri Lankan contestant)…
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…happy to see the Sri Lankan woman (Saku) made it through another round. She make a Sri Lankan breakfast out of biscuits! (Or as we say in America, cookies!) Including a hopper-biscuit. I laughed out loud. I’m guessing she’s not going to win — she seems solidly middle-of-the-pack right now. But you never know…
It took me just about one episode to wind a skein of yarn by hand into a ball, and by the end of the ball, my arms were getting kind of tired.
Clearly, it was time to haul out the ball-winder and swift, and about five minutes this morning let me turn my second complementary skein into a ball. Tools. We like ’em. I have a few more skeins to wind for another project, so I’m going to leave it set up for another day or two, then put it away again until needed; it’s too bulky a set-up to just leave up, given that I don’t actually knit / crochet constantly.
Not sure what I’m going to do with these yet, but I’m thinking probably something very simple, like a scarf in thickly striped stockinette, since I want this to be relatively mindless. Or maybe a two-by-two rib stitch, so it’s a little stretchier. Or hey, I could try something new to me, like the Andalusian stitch — mostly stockinette, but every four rows, you knit & purl one row. It’s a nicely subtle effect, and I think might work really well for this silky yarn.
(Am I very frustrated that I seem to have lost the labels for this yarn, and thus have no idea what it is? Yes. Yes I am. I think it’s something I bought at a yarn show with Kel Bachus, but beyond that, I got nothing. Worsted or sport-weight, silky to the touch, possibly actually a silk or silk-blend yarn, since it’s from a yarn show? Sigh.)
Well, we’ll see. I also don’t know what I’m going to do with the little leaf I crocheted last night. Make a bunch more for tassels on the ends of the scarf? Sew them onto the scarf in contrasting segments for texture? Sew it onto a pinback and then I can pin it onto a jacket I wear with the scarf? Make leafy pom-poms for topping a coordinating winter hat? Hmm….
Stitches to consider for beginners: https://www.studioknitsf.com/stitch-patterns-beginner/