[Nfb-krafters-korner] Friday's Question - Scissors anyone - please read

[Blindhands at aol.com]

Well within the last 2 weeks I did take scissors to yarn, but I was not  
cutting up the project.  I am working on a knitted blanket for my queen  size 
bed.  I started out in the corner and every row I added a  stitch.  The 
middle ended up being more then 550 stitches.  I was  doing it in a lavender, 
medium purple and a light green yarn.  I had  purchased those 1 pound skeins 
from Joann's Fabric.  Now I am decreasing  and had gone through 6 skeins.  
These last 3 skeins gave me problems.   I would use one at a time and tried 
getting the yarn to feed from the center  out, but each one ended up with gobs 
of yarn coming out of the center in  hunks.  I ended up with this bag of 
yarn that I thought was the 3 colors,  but tangled in a mess.  So I started 
with scissors and winding up yarn in  balls.  I would work them up until I 
could not get a knot out or ran out on  an end I was winding.  I put these into 
a bag and then had John look at  them and sort them into 3 bags matching 
each color.  I then would take the  smaller balls and wind it into one large 
ball all the same color.  I am  still working on this blanket and switch 
bnack and forth from winding balls of  these 3 color yarn to knitting on the 
blanket.  I have maybe one foruth of  the blanket left to finish.  I went out 
and purchased 1 more skein of yarn  as I don't think I will have enough to 
finish it.  I have some left of the  yarn of the 3 colors, but not all that 
much left.
 
So I use the scissors on this bundle of yarn tangled together, but my  
blanket is still being worked on.
 
Joyce