Yesterday the UPS man brought me some new toys!
I’ve gotten very ambitious in my knitting aspirations after my Christmas gift accomplishments and Hunter’s birthday sweater. I have this goal in the back of my mind that I will knit something spectacular for each of my kids’ birthdays, something for myself, and maybe even get ambitious enough to knit something for Barry too. 7 or 8 sweaters in a year is totally doable? Right?
With a goal like that there is sure to be a lot of yarn in my future– and every crafty endeavor is much more fun with the right tools.
Hand wound balls are a bit fumbly and tangly to make from big loopy skeins, and bit fumbly and tangly to knit from. With a swift you can easily hold that big loop of yarn.
And with a ball winder you can make speedy work of creating a perfect center pull ball that behaves so nicely as you knit without rolling away or tangling up.
With all the spinning and winding that could be done it was quite a while until the kids let me have a turn to try out my new toys.
I did get a turn after a couple of balls were wound– and then admired how neatly they stack on my craft shelves. So satisfying.
Oh, and my silk screen class post is over at the Rhythm of the Home blog today. Here’s a BIG welcome to any new friends stopping by!
Oh very nice! I’m not a knitter, but I can completely appreciate how much easier a swift would make life!
So fun! And yes, I agree, the right tools make it so much more fun. I can hardly wait to see what projects emerge from those needles!
Reminds me of how I love to look at my fabric all folded and stacked neat in a row, all the colors, the feel of it, the dreaming about what to do with it… so cool, like your neat balls of yarn on the shelf. love you
Somehow this made me think of the breakfast making scene in chitty chitty bang bang. Love that your boys look so involved. Smiles!