On the needles - April 5

I've been under the weather for a few days.  How do I know I've been sick?  I haven't touched my quilting since Monday!  Home from work for 2 days, and not a single stitch taken.  I'm feeling better today (and back at work) but hopefully this weekend will see some sewing.


I did cast on a new knitting project yesterday.  These are my socks for Judy's pooling sock challenge - although I don't think they are going to work out.  I get random stripes.  I increased the rows and managed to turn it into diagonal striping for a section.  A few more stitches and I think now I have vertical stripes.  I think the yarn colouration is too regular for good pooling, but I'll keep knitting and see where it goes.

That leads to a question I have for any knitters who read my blog.  When I wind my yarn off the skein, I end up with serious twisting in it, as it comes off the ball.  This might not be a problem if I was knitting off one end of the yarn, but knitting 2 socks I have both ends running, and the twists are counter to each other so I can't just hang the work down and let them untwist.  Am I doing something wrong (winding in the wrong direction?). Or is it that I don't have a yarn swift?  Or am I just doomed to dealing with this?