The Cottage Craft Yarns that I like, come in tied skeins that must be
balled before they tangle! The last time I was knitting in the backroom at
Big Sky Yarns, the clerk must have some in 3 or 4 times (over 3 hours) to
wind different yarns that customers had bought as skeins and wanted wound
into balls. So I would say that there is still some traffic in commercial
yarns sold in loose skeins.

I like skeins for some yarns because they can be washed and dyed.


Aaron


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It wasn't new, though it was ununsed.

Do you mean it was still factory wound?

No they were outside wound balls so I presume someone had bought it in
hanks and rewound themselves. The yarn hadn't been knit with, no labels.

I don't think I've seen commercial yarn in hanks for years! Only home spun
yarn.

Mary

sue