Julie, itâs not clear what is meant by âskeinâ I know from the knitting/crochet forum Ravelery that there is a lot of confusion about that word. To me, in UK, a skein means a small hank, but a lot of Americans seem to use the work skein to mean a centre-pull machine wound ball. If your skein is in the form of a loose coil or hank then you most certainly do need to wind it into a ball before you try to use it - for BL, for knitting, for crochet or any other use. If you try to use it directly you will soon learn why you shouldnât; it will sooner or later end up in a tangled mess.
If itâs an oval ball shape âskeinâ you can use it directly from the ball and you can pull from the inside or the outside according to your personal preference. Brenda > > I don't think the instruction is exactly that I must never wind bobbins > directly from skein. I think the instruction is that whenever I use a skein I > must spread it out totally, not let it bunch up, and I put something in the > center so stop the loops of yard from merging. So: a chair back, an arm and a > foot, two feet. So if I want to just pull yarn out without giving the matter > any thought I need to wind the yarn into a ball. Brenda in Allhallows paternos...@appleshack.com www.brendapaternoster.co.uk - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
