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Should you buy that yarn?
A handy flow chart to help you with your yarn stashing resolutions
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… what, exactly, is a skein of yarn? There is a dictionary definition[2] but as you may have noticed, among crafty types, this word is applied to a rather surprising number of yarn-shaped things—so much so that it has made the word not much more specific than saying “some wound yarn”…
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