as i am such a baby yarnmeister, i just learned something the hard way. i hate that.
as i have mentioned, i frogged my first attempt at a large crochet project. i blithely balled the yarn for reuse. last night, however, i began incorporating the first of the frogged yarn and discovered it was twisted. twisted as in "twisted-like-the-devil" twisted. i couldn't crochet more than a row and a half without ending up with knots and evilness between me, the piece and the ball.
to rectify the situation, i had to brainstorm. gently twisting it against itself while i worked stitches was futile. i could not simply hang the ball or piece to let it spin out...until i thought of using binder clips to hold the ends of the yarn to prevent unraveling. afterward, i spent a good hour and a half untwisting my yarn by letting the ball hang in midair and spin itself back to normal--2 stinking yards at a time. that...is a lot of twisting in the wind. i balled the yarn, now all nice and well-behaved, and, hopefully, it will crochet without any memory of its evile tortured past.
