When you knit/crochet, do you work directly from the skein (see below) or do you ball/cake it first?
I knit and I work directly from the skein
I knit and I cake my yarn first
I knit and I ball my yarn first
I crochet and I work directly from the skein
I crochet and I cake my yarn first
I crochet and I ball my yarn first
I do another fiber craft and work from the skein (please tell me what craft!)
I do another fiber craft and ball my yarn first
I do another fiber craft and cake my yarn first
something else/i'm bald (please explain in the tags!)
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okay turns out trying to be all encompassing with my phrasing so no one starts discourse over what a skein is causes people to say "it depends" which is totally fair but i'm just going to go with my original question but with the picture example in the original post to begin with
This is what i mean by "skein", it can also be the "easy pull" form but i keep seeing people on youtube knit/crochet directly from something like this regardless of if its easy pull or not when i've always been taught to wind it into a ball first:
reblog for bigger sample size, explain in the tags if you'd like for why you do what you do
I wasn’t aware until recently WHY you would cake or ball a skein like this first, especially when you can just pull from the middle of most skeins.
It’s to check for knots and snags. So you don’t have to stop mid-project when your work is attached and sort that out.