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I worked on the purple shells blanket a bit today, but it doesn’t look much different from yesterday, so just use your imagination and add a few more rows on yesterday’s picture. ^_-

I did wind some centre-pull balls, though, using this
video tutorial.

If you can’t watch the video right now, the short version is this:

Lay the end of the yarn across your left hand between your thumb and pointer finger. Start wrapping the yarn around your thumb and pinky in a figure-8 pattern. Do this quite a bit. More than you think you need to. I found the thicker the figure-8 part, the easier the yarn comes out when you’re ready to use it.

The entire time you’re winding the yarn make sure you don’t bury the end… you need to have this sticking out of the ball when you’re done for this to work!

Once you have lots of yarn wound in a figure-8 pattern (I like to make it at least an inch thick before moving on to the next step), take the yarn off of your fingers and start wrapping the yarn around the middle of the figure-8. Remember not to bury your yarn end!

Winding the ball pretty much goes as you’re likely used to winding them from this point on. I change directions periodically to make it a ball shape. Just don’t go “vertically” and cover the ends of the figure-8. Any other direction is fine.

Here’s one of mine (it’s scrap yarn, so I wound around my pointer and middle fingers held apart to make for a shorter yarn cake) :

Good luck!