Hi Julie, Brenda and everyone An umbrella swift is good to hold a skein for winding directly onto a bobbin (spool, shuttle) :)
It is possible to wind from a skein without a swift, or a willing pair of arms to hold the skein for you. Place the skein on a flat surface, place weights opposite each other within the skein so it is made taut, and carefully wind off what is needed. For a precise amount per bobbin e.g. for large-grid projects, commercially prepared skeins are usually wound by the yard or metre. Measure once around to find the unit. Mark the beginning of the round in some way and count the passes as you wind it off. As Brenda mentioned, ravelry does use 'skein' to refer to the commercial put-up unit of a yarn, whether it is a ball, cone or skein. On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Brenda Paternoster < paternos...@appleshack.com> wrote: > ... If you try to use it directly you will soon learn why you > shouldnât; it will sooner or later end up in a tangled mess. > > > I don't think the instruction is exactly that I must never wind bobbins > > directly from skein. > > -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
