First up - Happy Father's Day! Hope all Dad's everywhere had a fab day, whatever you did :)
Last night and this evening I spent reskeining a couple of 500gram megaskeins of DK merino superwash wool.
I bought them from Fyberspates a while back, and have finally got round to wanting to dye them and get them into my Etsy shop!
I wanted to divide each megaskein into 50gram skeins ready for dyeing. I knew how many metres of the wool there was per kilo, so I calculated the length for 50grams from that.
I know that my niddy noddy winds a skein of 1.9metres each time round, so I could calculate from that how many times I had to wind around to make each skein.
I added a couple more winds each time for good measure - nobody likes underweight skeins!
It didn't take as long as I thought, and my arms lasted out. Now I have a gorgeous pile of 50gram skeins ready for the dye pot!
2 comments:
You are going to be busy! I've never heard of a "niddy noddy", but it's a great name
Ooh - looking forward to seeing the dye results! By the way, I haven't started working with my yarn from you yet but I am loving just touching it and looking at the colors!
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