No, I haven't used hanks of yarn.

Re hanks. I don't know about recently, but in the past I can recall so many cartoons where a hapless husband, with a scowl on his face, is holding his hands apart with the hank, so his wife can make a ball of yarn out of it.

Hope you have had, or are still having, a lovely Thanksgiving Day. The parade they have in New York seems to be getting a little worse every year, though.