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2/3/2004 8:24:21 AM
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I seem to have a problem with the Uros. When the yarn gets unwound it breaks - very easily. I discovered this last night when I was working on DH`s too big hat (knitting in a lining). After pulling stitches through to cast on, the yarn seemed to "loose it`s twist" and that`s when it started breaking. I`m afraid to cast on a new project because I use what some people call "the sling shot cast on" and the yarn always starts to untwist. Any suggestions? Also, am I going to have any problems down the line in finished pieces with yarn breakage?
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2/3/2004 8:44:32 AM
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Alice Trueman
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Hi
Are you pulling the yarn from the centre of the ball? I have only knitted the first few inches of the celtic jacket in Knitter`s Stash, but I have finished the first braid and moved on to the plain part. I`ve used four colours for the bottom border, and knitted the braid in two handed fair isle, which does add a bit of tension to the yarn - no problems except a very cuddly cat who wants to rub her ears on it.
Try another ball, and pull out a generous amount so that you are not using the bitter end where it was cut at the mill.
Alice
Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
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2/3/2004 8:48:14 AM
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No I was using from the outside. Maybe that is where my problem lies. I`ll try to find the center of the next ball.
Thanks
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2/3/2004 12:18:05 PM
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MacChick
Posts 3589
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I wound it into a ball before knitting, because of the warning about excessive twisting if you knit it straight off the skein. I cannot break this if I want to... I have to use scissors or a cutter... and I`m on my third hat liner... (now I`m knitting liners for hats I haven`t even made yet! I`m addicted!)
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2/4/2004 8:26:07 AM
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Les
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I have started a sweater with uros this am. I started from the center fo the ball and am not having any problem other than miscounting my stiches (what can I blame that on?) It isn`t overly twisted as Machick found after she wrapped it into a ball.
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2/4/2004 10:54:22 AM
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It seems if I am very careful to not untwist I`m okay. But it`s weird, the minute you take the twist out the yarn just pulls apart. Maybe a spinner can explain this to me. I`m a newbie and most of this info. you guys know I`m just learning!
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2/4/2004 8:29:22 PM
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I am a spinner, and I do hope I can explain this to you.
There are a few things holding your yarn, my yarn, any yarn together. One is crimp in the fiber. Think of how much harder it is to comb really curly hair, and you understand that one. A second is the scales on the fibers, or surface roughness. Think of how hard it is to get a nice even coat of paint to "grab" on a glossy surface, and you`ve got that one.
ou see the effect of these two factors in several different aspects of the ways that silk, or ramie, or mohair yarns differ from wool yarns.
There are at least two other factors which come into play which are not dependant upon the fiber you are starting with, necessarily. They are the length of individual fiber, and the amount of twist added to the fibers. The more the fibers overlap - obviously easier with a longer fiber - the better it will hold together and the more twist, the better it will hold together. (It is not quite this simple, but it runs along these lines.)
When you have a yarn that is not plied, you can only put in so much twist. More than that, and it will bias when knitting - you will attempt to knit straight, but end up with a parrallelogram that is nowhere near square, and nothing will make it hang correctly. Now, there are some people who make a practice of using yarns like that, design for the bias, and turn out amazing, amazing things (Ketherine Alexander, I believe, is one of them) but most of us prefer our knitting to head due south as it hangs down from our needles, not west south west. Therefore, when manufacturers make these yarns, they put in as little twist as possible.
I am told that one way of knitting, either American or Continental, tends to add twist, but I can`t remember which. I only knit Continental. However, when you ply, you twist back in the opposite direction, and my knitting tends to unply most yarns a little, so maybe one thing you can do is to knit in the way you usually don`t, and see if that helps.
If youhave any questions, please add to this post and I will happily try to confuse you even more!
Theresa
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2/5/2004 1:04:12 AM
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MacChick
Posts 3589
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Theresa, once again I find myself copying your post into my knitting notes!
Oh, and, Farmin` Garmon... While I sincerely hope this problem resolves itself for you (I`m knitting another hatliner out of Uros as I wait for pages to load on the computer here, and visualising it working out for you already!) if you get TOO frustrated and just want to unload the Uros, and happen to have unused skeins of it in "Fresh Cream," just say so, and I will gladly buy them off you! I don`t expect to be able to get single-ply Lama yarn again for about a dog`s age, and I just did a little felting experiment on a swatch of it, and dang if it isn`t beautiful for that, too!!!
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