When working on a spinning project and I have a choice of spinning a lot of singles onto a big bobbins and dividing later onto smaller bobbins or spinning onto (and keeping track of ) smaller bobbins, big bobbins always win.

I'm working on my next Knittyspin post, which involves three different 4-ply yarns, so I thought I'd show you my quick (and lazy) way of dividing singles from a big bobbin.

I spun four ounces of Into the Whirled Falkland with my Magpie. The Magpie's ginormous bobbin holds 20+ ounces of yarn, so my four ounces looks wee.

I get out my bobbin winder, a lazy kate (this is the Akerworks Butterfly Kate, storage bobbins, and a scale.

I’ve spun four ounces of singles that need to be divided onto 12 bobbins (three 4-ply yarns), that’s about 9 grams per bobbin.

I get out my scale and weigh an empty bobbin, 9.11 grams.

I start winding my first bobbin and stop and weigh it periodically until I have a bobbin that weighs about 18 grams (9 grams for the bobbin and 9 grams for the yarn).

I tend to stop a lot when I'm winding my first bobbin, after that I have a visual that shows me about how full the bobbin should be with nine grams of singles, and I only stop once or twice on the next bobbins.

You can also weigh the empty bobbin and then zero out the scale, so you'll be weighing only the yarn, when you weigh your wound bobbin.

I had a little left over and put it on an extra bobbin. I don’t sweat if my bobbins aren’t exactly the same, close is good enough for me.