I have made an official Contest Page. It’s My Very First Try at xhtml/css so no laughing, please. I’ve also decided to open the essay portion of the contest to anyone. The sad, pathetic comments from Lorna’s Junkies have rent my heart in twain. If there are any addicts who would like to tell us in 20 words or less why you need MORE LL, feel free. M is still picking the top three essays so I feel that this is fair. He has seen many of your sock yarn stashes (I would get excited and say “Dear, come see THIS one! It’s MUCH better than mine!”), but I’m sure that won’t prejudice him at all. Only entrants who have never tried LL will be in the drawing.
Drum roll, please!
That is the Bedspread yarn. It’s going to need its own container.
Does anyone know how you’re supposed to knit off of a cone?
Your contest page looks great Em! And I love that photo of all the bedspread cones! GRIN. But I don’t understand your question
“Does anyone know how you’re supposed to knit off of a cone?”
Um… “splain this to me” exactly what are you asking. The end should be really easy to find on a cone, yes?
I recently inherited some cones of yarn (tarte and furple for example were a mystery yarn from a cone). I simply stuck the free end onto my nifty ball winder (I have the one that does the big balls–y’all get your minds out of the gutter already!) and wound of what I thought was a manageable amount. And now I have a cool yardage doodad the hubster rigged up for me so I run the loose end through there, into the ball winder, wind away and get a nice center pull ball AND get to know the yardage. Hope that helps.
BTW, should you task M with the chore of making a yardage counter, my M got the actual counter thing in the fishing dept. We’d never actually been in the fishing dept. before (boooring!) but the kids liked looking at the plastic alien looking things and have *cough* decorated *cough* with a few that we were forced into buying.
I’m not stalking. I just forgot to say you did a kick arse job on the contest page!
I just love this photo. It must have been fun lining them up. How about sticking the cone into one of those kitchen towel holders and knitting from that?
that…is one amazing picture. just stick the cone on the floor and sit in a really high place (or just a chair, hehe) then just pull the yarn off the top. does that make sense? or just use the ball winder 🙂
Cool photo. I just knit or crochet the yarn right off the cone.
So do the yarn cones light up the walkway at night? Hee!
I knit straight off the cone. Just pick up that easy-to-find end, plop the cone on the floor and knit. It will be some of the truly easiest knitting you have ever done, believe me.
Love this picture! Who knew you could landscape with yarn? 😉
Love those little soldiers all lined up on your walk! – and the Contest page is adorable!! great job! I was laughing so hard at some of the “essays”
You know – I have knit off the cone, as well as skeined the yarn into the ball. You might try it both ways, as there are certain skeins who love to become incredible twisted, wrap amongst themselves, and generally make your life a living h**l when left on the cone.. and then there are those who behave themselves like good little cones should.
You are cracking me up with those cones. Jill is 100% right. I LOVE knittng off the cone. Love, love, love it! So easy, find the end and GO! And your contest page is awesome! Great job, my code monkey friend:)!
Love that picture Em! Very attractive yarn ornamentation!
And you did a super job on your Contest page! Really great!
The contest page looks great! I have no idea how in the world to knit off a cone…I’ve never done that. That’s a ton of yarn though. Happy Knitting.
I don’t know how big your cone is, but I’ve read you can stick a dowel through the centre, cut holes out of the centre of each end of a shoebox so the dowel lays in them, suspending the cone in the centre, like a spit. As you knit, the cone should spin freely around the dowel.
Maggie’s method will probably work best. If the cones are too big for a shoebox, you can use any cardboard box. This will prevent you from adding (or removing) twist to the yarn. Also, be sure to wash your gauge swatch. Yarn from cones can tend to shrink (and fluff up) when it is washed.
So fun! I’m excited to see how it progresses! I think with a cone, you just pull from the middle.
I haven’t used Lornas Laces either, I’m going to tthink about that contest of yours!
OK, this has nothing to do really with this post (although I love the line of yarn cones along your walkway) but I couldn’t seem to find your email address (sorry, worked all day – very tired).
Woudl you please be able to tell me where you got the pattern for the excessively long socks you knit for your sis? I ADORE them. Very romantic in a victorian kind of way. Please share.
Thanks in advance.
Yarn cone lumminaries!