I quite like rolling skeins into balls by hand. I like the feel of the wool and winding this way and that to get a neat ball. But it's very time consuming. With a lot of skeins to wind, it makes much more sense to set up the skein holder and ball winder:
When all goes well, a skein winds into a ball in a couple of minutes. But some skeins become very muddled during the dyeing process and untangling them can be tedious and time consuming, whatever method you use. I still have more spinning to do for my blanket, but all the dyeing is done and that wool now rolled into balls, ready to crochet.
I enjoy rolling balls of yarn also! I love the feel of wool in my hands. Your basket of beautiful balls of yarn gives me the urge to knit!
ReplyDeleteWhen you roll by hand, cam you make the yarn come out of the center? That's a lot of rolling/ winding!
ReplyDeleteI think there is a way of doing that but I don't bother.
DeleteYour balls of wool look delicious! - isn't a nostepinde the tool you use for centre-wound balls? I no longer knit very much, but I still drape the skeins over chair backs and spend as long as it takes to wind the yarn - quite enjoy doing that.
ReplyDeleteYes. A friend of mine had a nostepine but we couldn't work out how to use it!
DeleteI completely understand that peaceful calm feeling before the making of the project, I feel this way with winding shuttles and paintbrushes 🌹💟🌹
ReplyDeleteYou have a nice little production line going!
ReplyDeleteAll of your work amazes me!! :)
ReplyDeleteGreat colors!! :)
You have a great production method
ReplyDeleteAs a kid mom would get one of us to hold our hands out as she rolled up the balls she needed for a project, great memories.
ReplyDeleteLovely hand dyed and hand wound wool eye candy!
ReplyDeleteMy mom taught me how to wind wool into soft , evenlying round balls, by placing lefthand fingers under the yarn, then switching positions after every few wounds for evenness. Ages since I wound anything but shuttles ;-P
ReplyDeleteYour wool basket looks delicious :-)