Tip on storage for yarn in use

[redrose]

when you get a run in your stockings, cut off the top part, and use the toe part to hold a center pull ball together. Use the segments above the toe in the same manner, but with one of the open ends knotted.

Comments

[ursula1972.livejournal.com]

This works very well. For large skeins of yarn, the plastic mesh cylinders that liquor stores slide over glass wine bottles also work well for holding a skein in use.

[redrose3125.livejournal.com]

I found them to be very prickly, and the yarn kept catching on the edges. But I was not using a long tube-y skein, though.

[ursula1972.livejournal.com]

Yes, the wine tubes work best for the big commercial skeins of yarn, when you pull them from the center. The wine tube replaces the paper wrapper, but collapses as you work so it holds the skein firm.

It can help to trim the wine tube by hand, so that the ends are trimmed right where the different plastic bits cross, rather than cut off with the ends of plastic sticking out. You want the ends to be ^^^^^^ not xxxxxx, if that makes any sense.