Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1913 — EASY TO WIND THE SKEIN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EASY TO WIND THE SKEIN

Little Contrivance Does Away With --—the Necessity of Impressing Small Boy or Girl. It is unnecessary to dwell upon the difficulty of winding a skein of wool into a ball without the aid of a second

pair of hands, but with the simple little contrivance shown in our sketch, this may be done with ease, and the holder,can be made in a few moments. It merely consists of a piece of board in which a number of boles have been made and into which pegs (ordinary clothes pegs will answer the purpose) can be firmly inserted. Two picture rings can be screwed into the upper edges of the wood and the holder can be hung upon the wall, and in that case, the pegs should be fastened in the holes at an angle pointing upwards or the board with the skein placed round the pegs can be held in the lap or on the table and so used, and the small sketch on the right illustrates it in this position. The object of having holes in the board at various distances apart is that the pegs can be placed at different distances apart, so that the holder will take a skein of any size.