There is the age old problem of winding off.
The Shakers had a neat kind of bobbin. See for example "silk reel" at http://pweb.jps.net/~gaustad/winding.html . Amos makes nice ones.
However, the hobby shop sells little circles of plywood and our fencing contractor gave me some scrap, so --
The Shakers had a neat kind of bobbin. See for example "silk reel" at http://pweb.jps.net/~gaustad/winding.html . Amos makes nice ones.
However, the hobby shop sells little circles of plywood and our fencing contractor gave me some scrap, so --
This comes pretty close to "fun with plywood and Elmer's glue. Use a waterproof glue and you can wash the yarn on the reel. And, steam block it. Then, when it is dry you set the reel on its end and it is easy to wind off as end delivery.
Um, paste wax the edges of the reel before use:
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