Ah, oops--I was going too fast, sorry! Still cool to have a significant percentage completed of a potentially intimidating total.
The weight. :) Mostly I make things at my desk (and I vacuum the external keyboard periodically *whistles innocently*), which means it helps for things to fit on the little strip of desk between keyboard and me or fully on my lap. An adult-sized sweater is slightly too big already and tends to slide off. But I might try making a blanket in strips--tried once, decided I didn't like pattern-plus-yarn well enough, but I'd like to try again at some point as a stashbusting endeavor.
Some people have commented that some fine, fuzzy wools and some part-silk skeins benefit from it, but I agree with you that color shifts are really the only factor. The abrasion/friction thing can be counterbalanced by how one handles the working skein (not letting it bang around a large project bag, etc.--at home I use a small cardboard box).
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Date: 2022-01-15 08:34 pm (UTC)The weight. :) Mostly I make things at my desk (and I vacuum the external keyboard periodically *whistles innocently*), which means it helps for things to fit on the little strip of desk between keyboard and me or fully on my lap. An adult-sized sweater is slightly too big already and tends to slide off. But I might try making a blanket in strips--tried once, decided I didn't like pattern-plus-yarn well enough, but I'd like to try again at some point as a stashbusting endeavor.
Some people have commented that some fine, fuzzy wools and some part-silk skeins benefit from it, but I agree with you that color shifts are really the only factor. The abrasion/friction thing can be counterbalanced by how one handles the working skein (not letting it bang around a large project bag, etc.--at home I use a small cardboard box).