[Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of yarn

[sunshine]

Joyce, I have contacted several yarn companies re this very issue! They claim that all manufacturers wind their yarn differently. However, they didn't explain how to remedy the problem. I got the information from a friend yesterday who explained to me about the figure eight that some manufacturers use, that when yarn is buried in the skein in the middle that you pull from the end and vice versa! No one ever explained this sort of thing! As I said, I'm working with yarn right now that had the center piece of yarn buried and friends who were here explained I had to pull from the end. 

It's easy to tell everyone to go and purchase yarn winders, but when we have only so much to spend a month, we can't have everything we'd like to have to make life easier. The wind-up crank type winder would not work for me because of my hands and the others are very expensive! Smiles!

Again, I have contacted companies, but the results have been minimal! I've had to return yarn that was even knotted as it unraveled! They were not knots I put into it — they were already there — falty yarn, which I returned to the store! Smiles! To advocate is important and I know of others who have done just that but don't receive comments back or receive very little information as I did. Smiles!

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----- Original Message -----
From:  Blindhands at aol.com
To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Date: Sunday, March 31, 2013 9:12 am
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of yarn

>
>
> The problem with starting from the outside is that as you work your yarn  
> the skein has to turn around  when pulling from the outside.  So it  doesn't 
> just lay there still.  
> and pulling from the center not all skeins are equal with this.  Some  work 
> well without any problems.  Some you need to get that rather large  hunk 
> out of the center  and unravel to locate the beginning of the strand  and some 
> are so nice and cooperative.  
>  
> So what can you do.
> 1.  I don't understand why folks don't express their feelings to the  yarn 
> companies.
>  
> 2. Go out and purchase the tools to wined your own center pull skeins 
>  
> 3. Live with this Problem?
>  
> Why not each of us write a letter to a yarn company that we purchase the  
> yarn from.  One letter from all of us each month and send it to a different  
> yarn company so we hit a lot of them.  Each of you who are on a different  
> yarn type email list can pass this suggestion on to that list.  This is not  
> a blind issue, it is a yarn issue.
>  
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
> Blindhands at AOL.com   
> 
>  
> In a message dated 3/30/2013 2:33:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> sober512 at earthlink.net writes:
> 
> I had  always started from the center pull and not the outside. I know 
> better
> next  time.
> 
> Portia
> 
> 
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