From a recent Guild Pass-it-Forward event I brought home several bags of old, ahem, vintage wool yarn for Charity knitting.
The yarn is clean but musty smelling and in need of a good bath. First, though, the yarn balls and cakes need to be skeined and tied before it can be washed,
then in hot soapy water it is carefully soaked so as not to full or felt the wool yarn.
Refreshed: vintage wool yarn,
good as new.
Today I labeled some of my Weaving yarns. I was following a tip I received from Betty, one of my Guild friends. Betty suggested to write the yarn size on the inside of the yarn cone instead of relying on the sticker label. That sounds like a good idea. It is easy to lose the little not-so-sticky-anymore labels.
I don't have a ton of weaving yarn (compared to my friends) but it would be nice to keep the cones of Cotton 8/2 and Cottolin 8/2 separate and organized from each other.
I started with the Cottolin 8/2 cones and wrote "8/2 CL". (Cottolin is a blend of Cotton and Linen.) Easy peasy.
While I had the colorful array of Cottolin in front of me I decided to write the yarn info on strips of card stock.
Then I made a Color Card for the cones of Cottolin yarn I have.
I didn't get to the Cotton yarn today but at least I won't have to make the Color Cards.
