...remember the
box of yarn-y goods my sweet sissie sent me a couple of months ago...
...well...I wanted to use some of the yarn for a mini project...and it was sort of a tangled mess...
...so I decided to wind it into some pull out skeins...problem is...I don't have a ball winder...
...but just by looking
a photo of a ball winder...I can see how it works...it just wraps the yarn around a plastic tube and then you slip it off the tube and pull the yarn from the center...so I'm going to do the same thing...manually...
...so I got an empty cardboard from a roll of tissue paper...
...flattened it...and laid the end of the yarn in the middle...this will be the center pull out piece of yarn...
...then I pinched it flat over the yarn...
...and started winding the yarn around the center of the tube...
...I sort of used a criss-cross pattern...
...and tried to keep everything nice and tight and neat...
...and in no time at all I was all done...
...here's the center pull end of the yarn...
...then I just slipped the cardboard tube out...
...ta-daaa...it works perfectly...
...now all I had to do was tuck in the other end of the yarn...
...so I just pulled up a few threads from the outside of the ball and tucked that end under...
...I'll show you soon what I made...
~Have a lovely day!
PS...it's snowing again...hoping the Winter Formal doesn't get cancelled...
What a clever idea. Thanks for sharing. I usually leave my handspun as I've set it, in long skeins or I wind it in a ball and then use from the outside in. (? ;) ) I'm going to try this with the next batch I spin.
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what a cool idea....you're so handy!
ReplyDeletei saw all the snow up there - brrr it's cold here too (but no snow).
love, k
Well done. Great idea.
ReplyDeleteBut can you tell me why it is important to pull the year out of the center? To be honest, I don't have a ball winder and I wind all my skeins by hand. But I never pull the thread from the centre; just from the outside. It works fine. Maybe your method means the ball doesn't roll around (I keep mine in a jar).
What a splendid way to wind yarn, definitely worth knowing.
ReplyDeleteYou have more snow while we have more wind and rain - and even a tornado. It is mild for January and I have seen several daffodils in flower and lots of fat buds, ready to pop.
Such a great idea! I'll have to try this.
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ReplyDeleteHi and thanks for stopping by Affectioknit! I hope you give it a try...it keeps my ball-o-yarn from rolling around...
~Have a lovely day!
Affectioknit-ly,
Teresa