This may sound silly. I’ve been knitting and crocheting for many years, however, I just purchased a couple of skeins of Bernat satin sport yarn to make a hat and scarf. These are not pull skeins. One skein is fine, I found the end immediately, however, the other skein I can’t find it anywhere.
What should I do to get this skein started? I’ve tried reaching inside from each side and can’t find the end strand. The skein is starting the fall apart I’ve picked at it so much looking for the end.
It’s supposed to be a pull skein, but that happens sometimes. I usually just use the yarn from the outside and sometimes I just rewind my own center pull ball. Instructions are in the tips section of the videos.
They are pull skeins but sometimes the center is hard to find; I seldom get just the very end, but pull out a small amount from the center and it’s in there. Since I’m going to be using several yards to start the project anyway, it doesn’t bother me that I get a bunch extra.
I may have the wrong idea here about what constitutes a skein but whenever I buy yarn, I don’t bother looking for the end of the yarn so that it comes from the inside of the ball to the outside. Instead, I find the end that is already on the outside, place my yarn in a bowl on the floor and knit away. The yarn comes out nicely, doesn’t tangle and stays neat as well.
But like I said… perhaps I’m talking about a ball of yarn, not a skein…? :shrug:
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OTN: Easy top-down sweater on circulars.
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Skein can be either a hanked loop or a prewound ‘loaf’ of yarn. The ones that are in loaf or even cake form have two ends - the middle and the outside. The hanks have to be wound into something useable. A ball is usually round but they can be made center pull, and the name is used interchangeably with skein or cake.