Archive of Thread: Yarn Twist Questions Back

5 years ago

Let’s say that in the middle of knitting a garment, your project falls on the floor.  So you pick the garment up in your lap and start to unravel the project, forming a ball with the yarn as you unravel.  Then you rehang the garment back on the machine.  Then you start knitting again from the ball that you formed as you unraveled, starting from the outside of the ball.

 

Question 1:  Is the yarn twist going to be the same again?  It seems like it wouldn’t.

 

Question 2:  If you have to wind a hank of hand knitting yarn on your ball winder and you thread the re-wound ball through your tension mast starting with the thread from the middle of the ball, is the yarn twist going to be the same?  It seems like it wouldn’t. 

 

Question 3:  What if you thread the re-wound ball from the hank thru the tension mast beginning with the thread from the outside of the re-wound ball?  Is that the same yarn twist?

 

Or, in the above cases, should you rewind the ball one more time on your ball winder to get it back to the twist it originally had when it came off the cone to begin with?