I bought some beautiful Manos del Uruguray Silk Blend from the Hill Country Weavers in a lovely moss color a couple months ago. This is the first yarn I’ve bought that came in skeins instead of pre-wound balls. Foolishly, I did not have them wind it at the shop, because that’s how I roll. Instead, after some cursory research, I purchased one of these, called a Nostepinde, from Ghstworks on etsy. After a fair bit of frustration (not to mention Real Life busy-ness), I found these instructions for using the Nostepinde that helped a great deal. I am now about a quarter of the way though winding my first skein.
In retrospect, it undoubtedly would have been more time-efficient to get one of the plastic ball winders, but I do hate to buy plastic things and it was cheaper, so I got the Nostepinde instead. It is actually nicely medatative to sit and wrap the yarn around the stick. But it does take forever.
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You know, you can always come over to my/Ginnie’s place to wind yarn. I have a ball winder and swift. And I’m sure HCW wouldn’t mind if you brought in yarn to wind. They are pretty awesome about pretty much everything.
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They really are super-awesome! I was just tired. The winding stick actually works out pretty well. But I should come over and hang out anyway! I have two projects that just need finishing!
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I am always down for stitch-n-bitchin’!
And general hang outs, too, haha.
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