#yarn management

[dreaming-notsleeping]

Working with 11 balls of yarn is such fun 🤨 When I first started I was disentangling the strands of yarn and reorganising the balls after every row! I soon realised that was going to be unsustainable.

I figured that if I lined up all the balls like so then the first twist would be strands from from balls 1 & 2 (on the far left), the next from balls 2 & 3 and so on until the last twist in the row would be strands from balls 10 & 11. So when I turn the work, the first twist would be the strands from balls 10 & 11, and the last from balls 1 & 2.

The next bit I just got lucky. The first row I tried this with was working the right side. I couldn't see the tangling of the strands because they were behind the work. This is what the strands look like after working the rs; the strands lie on the wrong side.

Then I turned the piece around for a ws row and of course all the tangled strands were in front of me. (This was the lucky bit.) I could see each twist as I approached it and so could twist the strands in the opposite way, to disentangle them.

This might be a perfectly normal technique of yarn management in the world of knitting; maybe I'm showing my knitting grandparents (cousins in craft?) to metaphorically suck eggs, in which case, sorry, I suppose? But not really sorry, because I worked it out myself, it works, and I'm pleased with it.

Back to normal levels of production this week: 11 rows completed, taking me up to 110 rows altogether.

[weeberc3]

@w1th0ut-th15-1-fad3 here's how I make hand wound balls of yarn.

1. Wind yarn several times around your spread fingers.

2. Remove from your fingers and wind a couple times around the middle of the looped yarn.

3. Bend your looped yarn in half - at the point where you bound it in the middle. Cover the looped yarn by winding yarn around it, making a lump in the middle. Attempt to ignore the cat.

4. Sorry attempt at ignoring cat failed. Have a picture of the cat. He's helping.

5. Start winding your yarn diagonally around the lump in the middle.

6. Continue winding diagonally catching the edges of the ball as you go. I've done whole skeins like this.

If you are careful about how you're winding, it is possible to make this a center pull ball, by pulling out that initial looped yarn. If you plan on doing that it might be useful to make a handle with a contrasting yarn that's included with the looped yarn before you start to bind it in step 2 and not burying that handle as you wind the loose yarn.

[insertcrochetpunhere]

I figured out what the straw is for on my Stanley dupe. 🤣

[vaguegrant]

So I was going to be productive today, and then a crit-sit ticket from our biggest customer was on my phone when I woke up. So I've worked 12 straight hours on that (and productively) but I am le tired. Plus I think I've got some sort of head cold or sinus infection or something. Lovely.

So instead I think it's going to be a quiet night of figuring out how to use the Ravelry yarn stash feature, sorting a crate of skeins I've got cluttering up my office so I can plan my next project, and then going to bed as early as I can justify. Oof.

[lattes-and-llamas]

Nessie Expedition: Two-Handed Yarn Management Part 2

Batten the hatches! Swab the decks! Cake your yarn! it's time for Nessie Expedition: Two-Handed Yarn Management Part 2! #nessieexpedition

Last week we announced the next installment in our Cryptid Knits series: Nessie Expedition. Deep in the Scottish Highlands, a beast dwells in Loch Ness. Few have seen the beast, and even fewer lived to tell the tale. But here at the Lattes & Llamas Society for Knitterly Cryptid Studies, we have definitive evidence of Nessie’s existence. For the first time in history, Nessie has been found… …on…

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