Saturday morning silliness

[treeskin]

First, a giggle-inducing take on animal guides: Crow's special Gift is Pretending to Know Much More than you Actually Do And Telling Everyone All About It.

Second, lessons learned while preparing to knit:
* A large boom box makes a decent swift for winding a hank of yarn
* One plastic chopstick is too fiddly to be a good spindle for winding a center-pull ball of yarn. Two chopsticks, though, work very well.

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[ladymurmur.livejournal.com]

Fine point sharpies, or the smaller size white board markers work well, too, and I've taken to keeping one in my "travel" knitting bag. In a pinch I've also used a wooden kitchen spoon. On all three I prefer wind a small hair elastic/rubber band down the shaft a ways to anchor the center-pull end of yarn. I'll have to remember the chopstick trick!

[treeskin.livejournal.com]

One chopstick was too small, two was better, and two gave me a place to anchor that end of yarn. Not sure it'd work as well with the cheap wooden ones. I used the plastic ones that Donna keeps in the office for makign holes for seeds.

I suppose one of these days I ought to get ones of those things with a handle, for the purpose. (Can't remember the name right now. Seen lots of pretty turned wooden ones on the net...you know what I'm talking about. This is my brain on decaf this morning.)

[ladymurmur.livejournal.com]

Nostepinne? Yeah, I've seen some pretty ones. I think that if I ever get one, it will jump off the shelf and demand to come home with me. Until that day, I'm content with whatever I have to hand.