A Swift Wool Lesson

DD#1 gifted me with a Gift Card to a lys.

Among others, these two Malabrigo Sock yarn hanks

made it into my shopping bag.

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Appropriately named, the KAL is Ravelry Red will be knit into a great Cookie A sock pattern.

My other pick is Azules. 

I love to knit sox.

I love to knit sox 2-at-a-time.

I don't want to go 'mad' trying to knit with this yarn in this configuration so

these two hanks really need to be wound into yarn cakes. 

 That way I can knit two socks at one time using one 40" long circular knitting needle.

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This is where my new Swift gets a workout along with my postal scale and yarn ball winder.

You can see the Swift in it's collapsed state.

The umbrella-like part that will hold the yarn,

the screw at the far right that attaches to the table table top

and in between the umbrella and the 'attacher' is the set-screw portion that holds the umbrella open.

Knitting two-at-a-time sox requires two balls/cakes of yarn.

The hank of yarn [minus the paper tags] must be weighed [in grams] 

I want both balls/cakes to be same weight/length.

Ahhh, we have 96 grams of Ravelry Red to work with today.

That means we'll end up with two cakes/balls 48 grams each.

Once the hank is untwisted it looks like this.

The white twine is woven at three places around the hank to keep zillions of tangles appearing.  Oh, what fun that was, just ask Hubby.

These will be cut and removed once the yarn is on the Swift.

The Swift expands to fit the current hank of yarn.

This is the part where Hubby does one part of our operation.

He's putting the hank on while I expand the umbrella and set the adjustment screw.

Getting ready to wind onto the ball winder the separator twine is removed.

Oh, hey, don't want to forget to tell you that the spindle comes off the winder  

I've weighed it and marked it

- 15 grams -

Now we are set to begin winding the first ball.

YaHooo

Once we guessimate that we're at the half-way point 

yikes!  gotta do the math 

96 grams of yarn divided by two balls = 48 grams

48 grams plus 15 gram spindle = 63 grams

Whew! that wasn't to bad.

After a couple of hundred turns on the winder a quick weigh-in.

Twenty-three grams short of half.

A few for winds and here we are !

SIXTY-THREE GRAMS

Weigh in without the spindle.

Oh, so shoot me we're one gram shy.

Hey, they say one foot is always smaller than the other.

Here's the second ball's weigh-in.

That's it  -  That's all !

Hey, quick, easy, accurate [give or take a gram this time].

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Ready for action!

Hmmm, which Cookie A design will these end up?

Lucky Feet.

Hugs

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