Yarny Purchases

After the wedding, I wanted to get something that both Tim and I would use, kind of a luxury item.  We decided to get a Swift and ball winder from Webs.  I’m not sure why we put it off for so long.  Up to this point, we had wound all the yarn by hand into balls.  When it took me 2 hours to wind the 420 yards of lace weight for the shawl, I decided enough was enough.

At first, I had Tim hold the skein across his hands, like you see people do in the movies, but he didn’t do it right!  I'm not sure what the right way would be, I just know that his way wasn't it.  I rejected his help on future winding and used my knees to hold the skein.  That didn’t work very well either, which is why it took me hours to get the yarn into a ball.  The yarn always ended up in a knot. 

After the winding, the yarn was in a ball that rolled around everywhere, not very convenient. 

We placed our order and in a few weeks we had out items.  I also ordered some undyed sock weight yarn to experiment with more dying.  I was sworn to wait until Tim got home to try out our new purchases.  The yarn I had dyed was still in a skein, this would work perfectly as our first center pull ball. It was a success!  We are very happy with our purchase.  

How did we ever survive before?  Tim is now turning everything into center pull cakes, whether they need to be or not.