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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Question Of The Day
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6 comments:
They are to wind different colors of yarn on for a multi color knitting pattern.
Hi Susan. I haven't knit for a few years. I remember using these. As Trudy said above. They hold your second and third colours in place, and the yarns don't unwind until you want to use them.
Yes - I agree with the 2 comments above. We always called them Yarn Bobbins. Mine look like the one on the top. I've never seen the style on the bottom - I'm assuming the holes might be a gauge for sizing needles?
I was thinking that the bottom ones were some sort of needle guage too.
They're bobbins. If you're doing fair isle knitting or anything with a pattern that requires you to change yarn colors as you knit across rows, you would use these.
I'm glad to know what they are. I usually knit things that are fairly simple or socks so it's good to know that these things are available.
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