How to keep yarn organized during knitting project

#1

I find that while knitting my project, my skein of yarn tumbles out of the bag. Anyone have good ideas about how to corral the yarn during working?

#2

How is the bag sitting? Is it next to you, on the floor, or on your lap?

I do a lot of knitting on my commute on a bus, which is not at all stable. I find it best if I either keep the bag in my lap, tilted in towards my torso, and pull the yarn I need for the row out of the bag each time or, I place the yarn on the seat next to me with the bag tilted in toward the back of the seat.

I don’t find that I can keep the yarn on the floor and knit without it rolling out. If the bag is closer to me, I can shift the ball around periodically if I need to by shifting the bag, and it doesn’t take that much time or distraction from the knitting.

#3

I’ve never had a problem with this, and haven’t tried this, but I’ve heard of folks putting the yarn in some sort of can or box with a lid and making the yarn go through a hole in the top. That should work.

#4

Please forgive the silly question but are you pulling your thread from the middle?

#5

Maybe a yarn bowl?