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knitpicker
Warming Up
99 Posts |
 Posted - 02/20/2006 : 09:03:16 AM
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| No I don't go out of my way to make tangles but find it satisfying to undo them when they happen. Sort of like a combination of working a jigsaw puzzle or a crossword puzzle. |
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Atavistic
Permanent Resident
6604 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2006 : 09:04:21 AM
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Mr. Aerospace untangles my yarn for me. He really enjoys it. So while I think you're both weird (: at least you're not the only one.
Amanda,
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RoseByAny
Permanent Resident
USA
12598 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2006 : 09:10:20 AM
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I do too. Very much.
"Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable."
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klfrazier
Permanent Resident
1745 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2006 : 09:19:14 AM
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A close friend of mine loves untangling yarn. (Good thing because her cats and dogs love to mess with her yarn stash.) I usually hand her any nasty snarls that occur in my house because I hate dealing with them. To each his own!
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GFTC
Permanent Resident
USA
6331 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2006 : 09:24:05 AM
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I will sit and untangle for as long as it takes but I will never take a scissor to it. Then I congratulate myself for having infinite patience and an unlimited attention span but I keep that as my little secret. 
GFTC of NYC
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momo526
Warming Up
70 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2006 : 09:28:11 AM
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I definitely enjoy untangling yarn. I also enjoy untangling necklace chains and shoelaces. DH can not understand it all and laughs about it.
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AngieSue
Permanent Resident
USA
1606 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2006 : 09:53:52 AM
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Count me in!! I can untangle for hours without losing my patience. This particular skill or quirk comes in handy during fishing season when lines get knotted or tangled. DH loses his patience in about 5 seconds whereas I can sit there in 90 degree weather and untangle every line.
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Knotty_Knitter
Warming Up
Canada
80 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2006 : 12:03:36 PM
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Not I.
Nope.
I work rather hard at not having any tangles.
Or knots. However, I will try to remove them, without scissors...(at first, lol)
justine
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Sorka
Gabber Extraordinaire
486 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2006 : 12:52:47 PM
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Hey have I got some yarn to send you!!!hehehe
Denise
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queenmaxine
Gabber Extraordinaire
USA
472 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2006 : 1:29:43 PM
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We have three dogs. A terrier mix who has no interest in yarn whatsoever(the grumpy old man of the bunch), a MinPin, and a Yorkie puppy. No matter how carefully I put yarn away, the Yorkie and the MinPin have a yarn party at every chance. When the yarn party is over, or discovered, they have complete innocent looks on their cute little faces. Untangling the yarn party is all part of the therapy for me. It is also something of an ongoing art project as I take a pic of the tangled web each time this happens. I envision the photos in an exhibition alongside the finished objects someday.
My DW looks at me and says "Just go get another skein of that instead of going through all that trouble." Of course I take this as permission to go buy more yarn.
My blog is not strictly knitting, but there are occasional WIP updates and frustration or bragging rants as I am a new knitter.
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Schachkoenigin
Chatty Knitter
166 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2006 : 2:50:21 PM
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| My mother is like that. She'll say, "Oh, you're untangling yarn!! Can I please do it?" |
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lella
Permanent Resident
9697 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2006 : 2:59:08 PM
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DH loves that challenge (and so do I) so we worked together on two tangled together rug yarn skeins from a weaver's stash this weekend. We got them into three large balls of yarn that will become some felted bags.. I'm hoping some of the goatie smell comes out in the felting. =o)
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YarnGoddess
Permanent Resident
USA
2460 Posts |
Posted - 02/21/2006 : 09:22:07 AM
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I wouldn't say I enjoy it, but I do have a knack for getting yarn, necklaces, string, whatever, untangled. Zipper is notorious for getting into my stash and making a mess of it. I will painstakingly untangle a skein of yarn before I'll ever take scissors to it.
Elizabeth
Zipper & Diva
A sense of humor can help you tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, overlook the unattractive and smile through the unbearable.
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gallant_duck
Chatty Knitter
United Kingdom
183 Posts |
Posted - 02/21/2006 : 09:45:12 AM
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It's the satisfaction! I love the feeling of completeness when I manage to figure out where the knot started and how to pull it apart. Like a sudoku, but more fibrous!
I think it might be hereditary: my Dad's great with this sort of thing, too!
emmms
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Knitmama
Seriously Hooked
USA
682 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2006 : 06:20:27 AM
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Wow. Want to come over?
Rachel
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lucienh
Honorary Angel
919 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2006 : 06:31:33 AM
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| I don't like untangling yarn, but I enjoy weaving in ends. Is that the same kind of weirdness? |
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knitpicker
Warming Up
99 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2006 : 10:21:49 AM
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| lucienh, yes I think it's in the same ballpark. I too enjoy weaving in ends. It's satisfying no brainer work. Like snapping green beans maybe. |
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MrsD1
Chatty Knitter
284 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2006 : 11:50:29 AM
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| I enjoy untangling yarn, but not weaving in ends! You would think they are similar tasks. Untangling yarn is like putting everything to rights. If only all problems could be untangled like yarn. |
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ikamouse
Warming Up
USA
50 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2006 : 11:57:08 AM
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| Funny you should mention it - I just had to untangle a large glob of yarn over the weekend of the snowstorm while stuck at my friends' house in the boondocks of central Massachusetts. I didn't mind it as much as I thought I did. Sitting in front of the fireplace, playing with an alpaca/silk blend, not at all bad. And my friend insisted upon helping me, saying she enjoyed it because reminded her of when she was a child and would untangle yarn for her grandmother or hold up the hank while her grandmother made a ball. |
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Clara
queen bee
USA
4362 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2006 : 6:33:14 PM
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Boy do I feel better now! I could just hug all of you. I, too, am a yarn detangler. I even enjoy winding balls of yarn without a swift. In fact I prefer to drape the hank on my lap and just slowly wind it that way. I didn't realize this was weird until I did it at my knitting group, and someone asked, "Um, Clara, there are 12 of us here, someone could hold the yarn for you if you'd like..." (and of course I said NO).
End-weavers, you count too!
Clara
Your friendly Knitter's Review publisher
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mokey
Permanent Resident
15375 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2006 : 6:49:33 PM
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Provided I am not in a rush, then I do enjoy it. I find it helps me chill out because it is one "problem" that I actually have control over. If I decide that the untangling is no longer worth my energy and throw it out, then it is also therapeutic to literally get rid of the problem.
"An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King Jr.
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