[Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of yarn

sunshine sunshine817 at cox.net
Mon Apr 1 16:47:37 UTC 2013 

Hi, Becky!

Great information! Smiles! Also, I have used ziplock bags for yarn balls and they work really great as well! When I'm knitting, I make sure the yarn is loose, with a pool of yarn to draw from beside me. If done properly it doesn't tangle! When I first started knitting, I used to get my yarn caught on table legs, too! What a mess that was at times! That was so many years ago — back in about 1985! Smiles!

When working on a large project, I have my yarn in a small bowl and that works, too! For the smaller skein I'm using now, I am using a ziplock bag! Smiles!

Hugs



----- Original Message -----
From: Becky Frankeberger <b.butterfly at comcast.net>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Date: Monday, April 1, 2013 10:36 am
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of yarn

>
>
> Terry try putting the skeins in a clean trash can, if they are small. Or
> clean laundry basket if they are larger.  Skeins need room to move. They wil
> stay cleaner captive.  Line the clean trash can if it is not plastic with a
> plastic bag.
> 
> For those who hand wind yarn, please make sure the balls are not tightly
> wond.  You should be able to squeeze the ball and have plenty of give, like
> a third.  The elastic properties of the yarn is what makes it so fluid when
> you wear the peace.  If the yarn is wond to tightly you loose all that great
> natural give in the yarn.   
> 
> This is very important information to know, hugs.
> 
> Becky and Jake 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI) [E]
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 8:10 AM
> To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of yarn
> 
>  I work with my yarn from the outside, in and rarely get tangles.  My big
> problem is yarn getting wound aroung a table leg or ebven my foot or cought
> on my slipper and traveling with me!!!
> 
> Terry P.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paulette Vickery [mailto:paulette at evickery.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 8:14 PM
> To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of yarn
> 
> The main reason you should wind yarn balls from the outside of the skein
> toward the inside is that pull skeins are would at the factory to be pulled
> and used from the middle out. When yarn is made, especially with yarn made
> from natural fibers, the  grain, so to speak, of the yarn is all going in
> the same direction. You need to use the yarn with the grain going away from
> the needle or hook. That way, it will feel better, work better as you make
> the project and look better. Pull skeins are made so that the yarn on the
> outside of the skein is going in the right direct for winding. The people
> who wound the pull skein assumed that you would use from the center out so
> they made sure to wind the yarn with the grain going in that direction.
> 
> Paulette
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of sunshine
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 9:42 AM
> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of yarn
> 
> Hi, Becky!
> 
> I from found that it's best to roll the yarn into balls as in so doing if
> there are tangles, they can be gotten more easily! I also find that it's
> best to take the yarn from the end of the skein as opposed to taking from
> the middle. From the middle, the yarn because knotted easily. Also, I've
> discovered that some of the yarn just isn't spun as well. Most knots and
> beoops can be removed easily! Actually, I use the point of a stylus and thus
> far I have been successful in removing even the smallest knots! Smiles! In
> any case, knock on wood, my yarn products have not been tangled as of late!
> Just because I said that, it'll happen! Smiles!
> 
> Hugs
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Becky Frankeberger <b.butterfly at comcast.net>
> To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013 2:01 pm
> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of yarn
> 
> >
> >
> > How about tips to help skeins of yarn not be so grumpy. 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I have had large pounders, to small few ouncers, act grumpy, tangle, 
> > knot etc.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > If a knot comes out the first thing I do is shake it.  The yarn before 
> > the knot and after the knot I shake and it will usually untangle 
> > itself. If it doesn't there wil be a little loop near the top of the 
> > knot near where you are pulling the yarn out to make your item. Just 
> > gently work the yarn with your fingers and it will untangle. Sometime 
> > near that top loop is a peace of yarn wrapped around the knot. Just 
> > unloosen that loop and the tangle former knot will come out.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I have heard that some people kind of pull the skein before using it 
> > to loosen, I assume the fibers. I have not tried this.  .
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > There is always pulling the yarn from the outside of a skein.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > There is always roling the yarn in a ball.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I am working from a pounder of baby yarn from the middle.So far no 
> > tangles, just one knot joining yarn done in the factory.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Any more ideas how to deal with yarn tangles?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Warm smiles,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Becky and Jake
> > 
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