skein of yarn

[spoula]

Yes, I have had to untangle yarn a lot. I dig through it and unwind until I find an end and that is used to pull through all the tangles. It takes time but if you want to use the yarn that is what you have to do.

My tangled yarn is some yarn that I have not used all of it and throw it in my yarn bin so it is my fault that it is a mess.

isn't this fun?

Spoula

[Jean Marie]

Ha Ha. When I crochet I use the end of yarn that comes from the outside of the skein. The yarn from the inside of the skein is wrinkled. I probably not only pulled this variegated yarn from the outside of the skein but also from the inside of the skein and that's probably how it got tangled. Sometimes I'm o.k. with untangling yarn and then it gets frustrating and I lose the end and then find it again a few times. Sometimes I roll the end of the yarn into a ball as I untangle it and then I have to unroll the ball of yarn so I can pull the yarn through to untangle it. I like to just pull the yarn without rolling it into a ball to untangle it but sometimes I roll the end of the yarn into a ball to untangle it.

[spoula]

Hello Jean Marie,
I saw this post again and wanted to let you know something I found out about yarn pulling from the inside or the outside.

I just finished a little vest for my grandson and pulled the yarn from the inside of the skein that was worsted weight #4 it came out perfect and it helped me keep my tension the same.

I am also making a scarf for a friend and that yarn is also a medium weight #4 but looks like fingerling or #2-3 very small and soft but different. I cannot pull it from the inside on either end it just won't budge. So I had to use it from pulling the yarn from outside. This turned out to be not so good as you crochet big piles of yarn fall off and as you work they get tangled. I had to stop multiple times to make sure none of the yarn got into knots. The way the yarn was wrapped was the cause of it falling away like that. I am on my second ball of that same yarn and it is doing the same thing. I have always crocheted from the yarn on the out side but I must admit the one that I started with from the inside was much better to work with .

Has this ever happened to you?
Spoula