A yarn bowl, as least for a few of us, might seem to be one of those luxuries in knitting that is really unnecessary. I recently wrote about having two and my friend here in town also purchased me one so now I have three. A few years back if someone had suggested I would really love having that many I might very well have argued, no, they aren't that useful. That is until you use one.
Knitting is a process; one starts with string and a pair of needles and makes something with it. This takes time and most knitters I know like to have the project of the day close at hand. Thus the project is either tossed in some sort of bag with the rest of the skeins or WIPS OR placed wherever the knitter sits. Both options come with certain hazards. A ball of yarn bouncing around in a bag full of other skeins or other projects can get tangled. Leaving a pair of needles with the project in a chair, you can imagine the dangers this creates. So I have faithfully been using my yarn bowls. (They also prevent the ball picking up whatever one might have on a dusty floor OR keep pesky pets from chasing the ball of yarn around as well.)
Yesterday, however, I found another good reason to use them. It was such a lovely day and I do have a well landscaped courtyard to overlook, that knitting on the deck was a necessity. Since I didn't really want to carry everything out there I just took the Arches and Columns lace scarf with me. Progress had been going well so the yarn ball was relatively small and seemed to fit well on my lap, or so I thought.
At one point of rather wild yarn pulling, the ball skipped off my lap and rolled away. For some reason it didn't roll off the deck, but stopped just at the edge. If it had gone over, there are about 6 stories for it to fall, but it didn't, luckily. That's when I wondered why I hadn't used the yarn bowl on the deck, immediately snatched it from nearby the chair inside and put the ball in it. Here's the result:
As you can see the yarn is tucked in the bowl and additionally, there is about 12 inches or 30 cm of the scarf already done. (It's hard to see the sparkles here in the setting sun.) Below is a photo of the fall it would have taken if the yarn had decided to do a bit of skydiving.
Yes, a simple yarn bowl has many purposes, one of them being it can prevent a free falling ball of yarn. Yeah for the yarn bowl!
Knitting is a process; one starts with string and a pair of needles and makes something with it. This takes time and most knitters I know like to have the project of the day close at hand. Thus the project is either tossed in some sort of bag with the rest of the skeins or WIPS OR placed wherever the knitter sits. Both options come with certain hazards. A ball of yarn bouncing around in a bag full of other skeins or other projects can get tangled. Leaving a pair of needles with the project in a chair, you can imagine the dangers this creates. So I have faithfully been using my yarn bowls. (They also prevent the ball picking up whatever one might have on a dusty floor OR keep pesky pets from chasing the ball of yarn around as well.)
Yesterday, however, I found another good reason to use them. It was such a lovely day and I do have a well landscaped courtyard to overlook, that knitting on the deck was a necessity. Since I didn't really want to carry everything out there I just took the Arches and Columns lace scarf with me. Progress had been going well so the yarn ball was relatively small and seemed to fit well on my lap, or so I thought.
At one point of rather wild yarn pulling, the ball skipped off my lap and rolled away. For some reason it didn't roll off the deck, but stopped just at the edge. If it had gone over, there are about 6 stories for it to fall, but it didn't, luckily. That's when I wondered why I hadn't used the yarn bowl on the deck, immediately snatched it from nearby the chair inside and put the ball in it. Here's the result:
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| Everything all safe and sound |
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| The view that made me want to knit outside in the first place |
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