Yarn Barf

There is a little trend going around the blogs of knitting directly from the unwound hank of yarn, instead of winding it up into center pull balls. I'm pretty sure that the knitting-directly-from-the-hank knitters, who shall remain unnamed here, were just pulling our legs on this one. I rolled my eyes at the first blog report on this, but then when two or three more reported that this was the best thing since sliced bread, I decided to try it.

I'm here to report that, with certainty, this clearly does NOT prevent yarn barf.

And no, I didn't take pictures, but it just took me the better part of an hour to untangle the mess that ensues when you try to get all smarty-pants and follow the latest knitting fads. I wasn't about to leave the mess spread over the entire kitchen floor with the pet menagerie drooling around the edges like a pack of wild hyenas, while I went to fetch the camera. Let's just say that from now on, I'll be dutifully winding my yarn hanks into neat little cakes.

I promise knitting progress photos in the next post. I'm off to wind yarn.

Oh, and Dorothy reminded me that I needed to add Lewey to the sidebar. If you look over there to the left, there he is!