I just hand wound a 1300 yard ball of lace weight yarn. It was supposed to be a center-pull ball, but apparently the yarn is sticking to itself a wee bit too much for that to work. I will have to finally get myself a ball winder. I've been meaning to buy one for some time, just never quite got around to it. (There's a 3300 yard skein of cobweb weight merino in my stash that has been languishing for about 5 years until I obtained a ball winder.) It'll be a Strauch ball winder. They make a good quality product that's well-built. I've been very happy with the drum carder I have from Strauch, so I might as well own their ball winder too.
The yarn I was winding is for the Goddess Knits Fall Mystery Shawl 2009. I'm using Penny Rose's Carrie (80% merino, 20% silk) in gold. It's a gorgeous warm butter yellow. I expect it'll make the shawl feel that much warmer. Clue number one came out today. I expect I'll finish it in about twice the time the knitalong is scheduled to take, but that's just an estimate.
Sock KALs....
I thought I had Clue #2 of the Through the Loops Socktoberfest Sock finished, but when looking at the photos of other people's socks realized that I completely skipped the part of the instructions that said "repeat these rows 5 times". Oopsies. On the other hand, this means the sock length will be much more to my liking.
The Solid Sock group's Mystery sock has been cast on, but that's all the further it's gotten. I'll have to check when Clue #2 on that one comes out.
And now I'm going to work on the TtL Socktoberfest while I watch Hulu and let the lace yarn sit and think about its poor behavior earlier today....
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