{"id":1321,"date":"2013-08-28T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/28\/winding-yarn\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:52:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:52:14","slug":"winding-yarn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/28\/winding-yarn\/","title":{"rendered":"Winding yarn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You may remember that my very generous brother-in-law has made me a<\/span> yarn swift<\/a> to make winding skeins of yarn into balls so much easier. Prior to having this, I had to drape the skein around the end of my ironing board and manually unwind it \u2014 very slowly and carefully! \u2014 a little at a time as I cranked my ball winder. It was a long process, and I was very lucky if I didn’t get a knot at some point. Now, however, I can easily wind a ball in no time flat! When I’m finished, the swift folds up into a compact package for easy storage. I’m so lucky! Here are some photos of the first time winding a ball on this swift.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This whole process took less five minutes. Yay! \ud83d\ude00<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may remember that my very generous brother-in-law has made me a yarn swift to make winding skeins of yarn into balls so much easier. Prior to having this, I had to drape the skein around the end of my ironing board and manually unwind it \u2014 very slowly and carefully! \u2014 a little at a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[300],"tags":[7,244],"class_list":{"0":"post-1321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-knitting","8":"tag-knitting","9":"tag-yarn-swift","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0353.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-lj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1329,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/19\/swift\/","url_meta":{"origin":1321,"position":0},"title":"Swift","author":"Sandy","date":"August 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Open swiftYarn\u00a0swift, that is! 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