An impossible thing
Some time back I bought two 100 gram skeins of undyed 100% Peruvian wool. They were inexpensive and I thought I would try dyeing my own self-striping yarn. You've all seen pictures of someone holding up their hands, 18-20" apart, with yarn looped around them and another person winding a ball of yarn off off the looped yarn. These skeins had to be wound into balls like that. If you try knitting off the skein, the yarn gets hopelessly snarled. I decided I liked the undyed cream color just the way it was and had wound one skein into a ball months ago. It takes me two or three hours because there are 440 yards of yarn in one of those skeins. Last week I decided to dye the slip cover for my comfy chair and bought some denim colored dye. This was a perfect opportunity to try dyeing the remaining skein of yarn. I tied the loops of yarn together quite tightly in eighths and dyed the yarn. (Note to self. Do not wear a cream colored pullover while spending an afternoon dyeing yarn and a slipcover and also cutting up a beet as part of supper. The pullover came through unscathed but I was a nervous wreck.) The yarn dyed beautifully with flecks of cream where the strings were tied. Most satisfactory.
Here is the impossible part. When it came time to wind the yarn into a ball, I couldn't find either of the two ends. I finally just cut a strand and began winding. It was annoying because now there would be two strands - of unequal lenghs - instead of just one. Except there wasn't. There was just one strand.
Here is the impossible part. When it came time to wind the yarn into a ball, I couldn't find either of the two ends. I finally just cut a strand and began winding. It was annoying because now there would be two strands - of unequal lenghs - instead of just one. Except there wasn't. There was just one strand.