illicit diversions » yarn http://www.illicitdiversions.org/blog what i'm doing when i'm supposed to be doing something else Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:00:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 doing it the hard way http://www.illicitdiversions.org/blog/2009/01/doing-it-the-hard-way/ http://www.illicitdiversions.org/blog/2009/01/doing-it-the-hard-way/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:41:44 +0000 shallowwater http://www.illicitdiversions.org/blog/?p=18 using my yarn winder!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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