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The Best Way to Start a Ball of Yarn

You'd think it would be obvious which is the best way to start a ball of yarn. You'd think it would be very clear which end to start with, right? There is an end that is always very clearly on the outside of a skein of yarn, and one would normally think that this end would be the one to start with - simply because it's obvious. When I started with crochet, this is the end I always started with, not knowing any different or any better. The problem was that as you use this end,...