Can you get to a friendly yarn store or knitting guild? There are a few serious knitters in the Toronto area. Or look for a reasonably friendly, upscale (but not snobby) yarn store that would be willing to let you bring in your skeins and wind them. (Buying a few balls of yarn might help.) Or what about the place where you bought the alpaca skeins? If you can get back to the store, they may be willing to let you borrow a swift and ball winder.
Avital On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:38 AM, 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? > My last recourse would be to borrow the tools from my lace-making > fiends, but that's two months away and I want to play with my yarns now! ;-) > Thanks for any tips and suggestions, > Debora Lustgarten > Toronto, Canada > - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
