Hi Debora and everyone If you think you'll be buying more skeins of yarn/thread, do invest in an umbrella swift. I have several skeins of fine silk that I use for bobbin lace (equivalent to sewing machine thread size) and I would be lost and entangled if I tried to wind thread of these skeins without the support of the swift (a swift shouldn't be expensive, check handspinning suppliers online, "Rovings" comes to mind).
With your 2-ply alpaca you can probably get away with placing a skein on a table with weights placed around the inside of the skein to keep it reasonably taut, but you will still have to wind it by hand. Probably just as well, because if you are going to use this alpaca for bobbin lace, you won't want the twist of the yarn disturbed; you can keep that under control as you wind. Ditto about the twist if you are using it for knitting,for that matter. Maybe the circumference of the skeins will adapt to going around a roll of blanket material, as a core, then you can unwind what you need from that. On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Debora Lustgarten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I went on a shopping spree and came back with 14 skeins of lovely > lace-weight 2-ply alpaca (700 grams of wool). Problem is, I have no > winders or swifts to wind it... > Have any of you come up with a solution that does not involve > stretching the skein over the back of a chair and winding it by hand? > -- Bev (near Sooke, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
