Threading the yarn
For the following test pieces you will need approximately 230 grms of yarn in the main colour and about 30 grms in a
second colour which will be called trimming colour.
Use a medium thick plain smooth yarn. (100 grm = approx. 340 m, 1 oz = 104 yards).
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It is very important for the yarn to
flow freely and smoothly. It will only
do so if it has been wound into loose
balls or on to cones.
If you wind the yarn yourself, let it run
over the enclosed piece of paraffin
wax.
Always begin with the end of yarn
coming from the centre of the ball.
Thread the yarn into one end of the
double ended bodkin which is the
needle with an eyelet on each end.
Look at the white plastic piece at the top of the mast of
Now guide the bodkin from back to front through the
the yarn tension. From below, guide the double ended
eyelet at the tip of the tension arm.
bodkin vertically up behind the silver coloured roll.
The roll will move slightly forward by itself and make
room for the double ended bodkin.
Compare carefully with the illustration. The yarn must
be
in
the wire triangle.
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