October 26, 2009

And action!

This was one night well spent - I borrowed Helen's "reeeling machine" aka swift and powered through my hank stash.


While it probably took me 1/3 of the time to set it up and then pack it back into the box (I was a bit technically challenged!) but I can so understand why people spend the money they do on them - combine it with a wool winder and it makes short work of a hank. No sticking, knotting, stuck around a chair messes.


And hanks became skeins. Which at some point will become a knitting project - I'm thinking of some little twin girls who could do with a pink cardi each, and that pile of Donkey Utiku 8ply is for my mitre square blanket which is on umm, oh, it's 2nd year!!!!


Thanks Helen!

1 comment:

Catherynne said...

I've heard that it's best to leave yarn in skeins until just before you're ready to use them (no idea why though) and *then* go mad on the swift/ballwinder doohickey, but maybe that's a bunch of baloney? Or maybe it only applies to handspun. Whatcha reckon missy? Thoughts?

Mind you, I quite like patting my purty handspun yarn babies in all their skeiny glory. Somehow not quite the same when they're balled...