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- From: bkt@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Barrie Trinkle)
- Subject: Re: ball-winding
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- References: <1992Nov4.212348.22089@tessi.com> <1992Nov14.220154.22810@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:55:07 GMT
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- liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Liz Allen) writes:
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- >I used to wind my yarn into a ball and then stopped. What advantage
- >is it? Now I just pull from the inside of the skein and that seems
- >to work fine -- and saves the work of making the ball. ;-)
-
- Well, I've made some hellish tangled messes of skeins trying to
- do it your way--that's the only "advantage" I know of to winding a ball.
- But I'm a slob and my yarn sits around in piles for long periods of time,
- so I can't really blame the skeins. YMMV.
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