Life's a Stitch

I have just finished winding a particular skein of Koigu FOUR times. I’m pretty adept at using the swift and ball winder, but this skein just wouldn’t cooperate. Fist time it wrapped around the post of the winder and I didn’t catch it until it was too late. Second time I couldn’t find the end and ended up pulling the entire thing out and winding it by hand. Try again. Have you tried using the winder from a hand wound ball of yarn? The darn thing runs around the room like a crazed mouse being chased by a cat. It got caught around the wheels of my chair more than once. That time I wound it from the wrong end, because I couldn’t find the right one, and wanting consistency from skein to skein, wound it once more from the right end. And that’s the end of the story. Thank goodness.

Gracee slept through it all.