Middle Aged Woman Has Weird Love Affair with Ball Winder

Okay, call the National Enquirer if you want. But I am in love with my new $19.99 KP Ball Winder. I clamped it onto the arm of my big rocker, and I was off and winding. I've been rewinding every skein in my stash, it is just too much fun. I even wound some fairly wide ribbon yarn as well as some cotton that is more like heavy thread. My 14 y.o. son saw me and insisted on trying it out. I let him at it with some acrylic worsted, but after one ball (with quite a few backup rewinds when he wasn't watching and got off track), his curiosity was satisfied and I have the winder all to myself again. I'm thinking it would be stupid to wind the small skeins that are still in ball-bands. But they would look so much prettier in the puffy little disks that the winder makes...

Am I the only one having fun with this? Do I need to join Ball Winders Anonymous? Is it a red flag when I start frogging swatches and old sweaters so I can wind some more? Sadly, if they offer to Call a Friend on a Life Line, I will just want to wind it.

All Wound Up,
Cindy

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Comment by banklady6 on April 1, 2009 at 6:15am: I know how you feel..I did the same thing...it's so much fun! My cat loves watching the yarn whiz around

Comment by Puffy Griffinclaw on April 1, 2009 at 5:33am: Whew, that's a relief! I was afraid it would add to my UFO problem. But at least the yarn for the UFOs will be nicely wound!

Comment by Susan the Blue Lake Knitter on April 1, 2009 at 4:15am: Don't worry this is typical behavior, when I got mine a while back I was winding ALL of my left over skeins into cute little balls and organizing everything. I spent about two or three days doing that. I was so much fun.
Then once it was all organized, I got back to knitting.