Center pull ball

#1

i wound my first center pull ball last night! :happydance:

all my thanks and appreciation go to knittinghelp.com of course. without the awesome video i would’ve thought i could ball up the hank w/o the back of a chair or wrapped around my knees and just figure i could leave it on the ground. and twenty minutes later i would have a tangled mess that i’d have to cut into smaller pieces to untangle… and then i would have probably wrapped the smaller pieces around water bottles… all while swearing and fighting back the tears. :wall:

… that’s what happened last time.

this time i went from this:

to this:

my first center pull ball! aside from my thumb turning blue it was a very satisfying and easy process all thanks to amy. :cheering:

… now i just have to figure out what to make with it. :??

#2

Oooh - congratulations.

I have several “balls” of yarn that would benefit from this treatment - I just haven’t been brave enough yet.

:wall:

Maybe I should do that today!

#3

I use an empty effervescent tablets tube, something like 7" or 8", I put the end of the yarn between the tube and the cap so I can catch it later, I wrap the yarn around the tube and when it becomes a ball, I take the tube from the middle of the ball and there I have a center pull ball, the important thing to do is to wound a little tight but not as much as to kill the softness of the yarn :hug:

#4

[color=indigo]An empty TP tube works well, too, as does a subscription medicine bottle. :happydance: [/color]

#5

I thought the video made it really easy too. I got a couple hanks of malabrigo and even though I am too afraid to make anything with them yet, I did wind them into ball just so I could touch thema lot!

#6

:cheering: Congratulations!

as for your thumb turning blue, i’ve found using a cardboard tube much easier (but a smaller tube is even better)

#7

oops, wrong link. sorry: http://www.flickr.com/groups/knitting/discuss/72157594364884186/

#8

wow, thanks. i’ll definitly be trying items that aren’t my thumb next time. =)

any reccomendations for items to use instead of a swift? for the ball in the picture i just put the yarn around my knees. it was fine at first but started putting some strain on my back towards the end.
i hear chair backs are good, but, most of my chairs are very narrow and the loop of yarn would probably just rest on the seat.

#9

you may try your feet, they move better than your knees (never tried it myself, mom likes to help me winding) :hug: