This is the ball of yarn that tangled so spectacularly yesterday afternoon.



I'm embarrassed to admit to how long I spent untangling it...I had to take it off the swift and pass the ball I was winding through individual strands to deal with the mess.

After I wound it into a ball, I decided that the ball was sufficiently tightly wound that it might stress the yarn, so I decided to re-wind it using the ball winder. (This also had the benefit of making the yarn into a nice neat little "cake" that wouldn't roll all over the floor while I knit with it.)

(one of my birthday requests, I think, is going to be a Carolina Yarn Bell for when I am knitting with yarn that is in a rolly ball.)

But the ball behaved like something alive when I tried to wind off the "cake." It bounced all over the floor, it wound itself around my ankles and the legs of the stool where I have the ball-winder attached. I put it in an open dresser drawer and it leaped back out. I put it in a box with other balls of yarn and it tangled with them.

Finally I got it wound off. But I admit, I'm a bit afraid to cast on with it. I think it may be possessed.