the kyoto sweater skeins are huge and making them into a ball would take forever. i knew that any attempts at a centre-pull ball would result in tangles and tears so thought i'd make my own makeshift cone using first a toilet paper roll (too much yarn for such a wee bit of cardboard.) then i upgraded to a paper towel roll. and it works just dandy but it rolls around on the couch and off the couch and across the dog fur-covered rug.
i came up with two solutions that i think are quite clever. 1) jamming the "cone" in between the couch cusions and 2) jamming the cardboard onto the fisher price stacking rings post. it wobbles a bit but works well enough when i am sitting on the floor with the wee monkey.
speaking of the monkey, i think he is going to be a knitter. he's fascinated with everything knitting releated. he loves to watch me knit. this morning he was doing his best to pick up a ball band just out his reach. i was putting my 'net kintting patterns into plastic sleeves and sorting them in binders (by catagory. i know!) and baby j could not take his eyes off the patterns.
i am still looking forward to getting the swift and ball winder...
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Hm... if you had a swift and a ball winder, I could bring my enormous skein of raspberry Fleece Artist mohair and we could wind it up into a handy, ready-to-knit format...
if that is an incentive to get yer hiney down here, then yes! i will have a swift and ball winder after the second tuesday of march (whatever day that is).
btw, on gilmore girls this week lorelai said "nary" in a sentence and rory complimented her use of nary. hee.
Negotiations proceeding apace, will let you know!
I just don't get the Gilmore Girls... But then, I'm preparing a blog post on the wonder of "The Life of Mammals" (pygmy marmosets! cute!), and how it might be changing my attitude toward tv... So it might just be that GG doesn't have a high enough nerd factor. I may have midjudged though, with the use of nary and all!
Um, I'm kidding. About posting about The Life of Mammals. I'll probably just mention it occasionally.
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