At 07:05 PM 4/6/04 -0500, Sue Babbs wrote: >I can't visualise this. Do you still have the DMC skein in its paper >wrappers and try just pulling one of the threads?
It was Coats & Clark -- they were an excellent brand at the time. Same put-up, though. That would have been in the Colfax place, where there was only a token wall between the living room and the dining room, and Mom didn't allow cats in the house, so I could have laid it out straight, but I *think* what I did was to just pull the inner end of the skein until it was all out of the wrapper, letting it pile up in a loose coil on the table. Such piles don't tangle if you're strict about Last In First Out. Though it's been a loooong time since I unwound a skein of embroidery floss, I quite frequently create such piles when I need both hands to unwind a skein of knitting yarn, and skeins of knitting yarn are much longer and fuzzier than skeins of embroidery floss. The first time you try it, it would probably be a good idea to put the pile on the floor, then stand on a chair to pull the thread out, so as to maximize the straight space for loops to fall out of the thread. The thread you are pulling out can collect in another pile, to wind up later. Oh, yeah, don't ever try to *move* a pile of yarn or thread! Wind it up from where it is. Come to think of it, I *do* move piles of yarn when I separate a skein of Persian embroidery yarn into three balls of sock yarn. I pile the single yarns in plastic bags, so that they can spin around each other as the stranded yarn untwists. -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
