Knitting bug -- OUCH!

Vintage Purls spun a FINE 'yarn':

Vintage Purls. . .

That line came up as the SUBJECT LINE rather than Re: Knitting bug - OUCH! and I rolled on the floor laughing! Noreen

Noreeeeen! Mind out of the gutter this instance young lady!

:-)

As I like to say...

"Get your mind out of the gutter... so mine can float by!"

David

There's a video that demonstrates it here -

Forgot to say that you should go down almost to the bottom to locate the link to the video.

sue

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!!!!!

Now I don't wish I had a $30 ball winder any more and can stop trying to find one for sale for dirt cheap!!

Thank you!

I'm going to try this.

Thanks, Sue.

This computer is a little slow for video but the other is coming back from its "doctor" next week so I'll be able to check it out then.

Murielle

Aaron, thank you so much for that. It will save me having to chase a ball of wool all around the room where I am working and also have the advantage of discouraging a very playful little cat from tangling my yarn up.

But this doesn`t work so good with One piece No seam knitting, wheere i knit one after another ,,, But the last years i get double the needles for the sleeves and work same amount of rows on each side every knitting time ,,, mirjam

I have one for my weaving , but most BOUGHT balls of wool , can easily be opened at both inside and outside ,,, mirjam

"Bernadette" wrote in news:T4lai.24918$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net:

well, it *will* save you from chasing a ball around the room, but it *won't* stop the cat, i'm afraid. :) i wind center pull balls using a fat knitting needle most of the time (& i do have a ball winder & swift), but the kitties (6 indoor only & 2 barn) still play with the yarn as it comes out of the ball... lee

"Aaron Lewis" wrote in news:t3hai.25877$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net:

another advantage to center pull balls is that you can put them on a wrist bracelet or in a backpack pocket & knit while walking. i don't advise working on a blanket or large sweater while doing this, but it's good for socks & hats, etc. lee

(LOL) I have a feeling you're right about the cat. That would be too much like going against nature!

She actually has a ball of wool of her own. I wound it from some left over bits, left a very long tail on it and used that to sew over and over where the strands crossed each other. She loves to play football with it.

My Nephew puts balls of yarn in the huge cargo pockets of the "military "style pants that are popular these days, then he can crochet while skate boarding. I have a vest with large pockets, I put a center pull ball in one of pockets that was designed for camera lenses, then I can easily knit in public. For socks or mittens on a train or plane or in the car, the vest is more convenient than a knitting bag.

Aaron

$30 would be dirt cheap; they're usually $34 to $36 where I see them. But winding center pull balls around a stick goes back hundreds of years. The fancy sticks with a slightly thicker middle are called nostepindes (in Scandinavia), but I've never figured out why the bulge doesn't make it hard to remove the yarn afterwards.

If you wind a lot of yarn, a ball winder is worth its weight in gold. I just wish they'd design one that would let me use bobbins with wide ends, or maybe what I want is bobbins with one end removable so I can slip the ball onto it, so slippery yarns don't have a chance to slide back into a tangle.

=Tamar

Mainly you just keep the inner end sticking out of the ball as you wind it. I wrap it around the little finger of the hand holding the ball as it forms when I'm hand winding a ball. I do try to create the same kind of center- hole that you find on a ball of crochet cotton, by winding around next to the center rather than across the center (again, like the ball of crochet cotton).

=Tamar

Well, I am just getting started bsck into doing this and am trying not to spend TOO much money until I know I'm going into it for the long term.