Again, most of my day, was spent at the hospital with DH. He was moved to a non-telemetry room. Aside from watching him sleep, helping him, and talking with his caregivers, I mostly knitted.
I’m finally on the lower edge ruffle of my version of “The Thing” (from “http://creative-corner.net/patterns/free/8.html”), which I’ve knit on less frequently as it’s become bulkier, as it doesn’t tote around as well. I’m knitting it with Crystal Palace Merino Stripes (for the body) and Merino Frappe (for the ruffled edge and cuffs). When I first changed colours, I discovered that the ball of yarn was wound in the opposite direction, so that the end on which it came off smoother was on the outside. Which brings us to yarn directionality.
Yes, yarn has direction. If you run it between your fingers in both directions, you will feel a difference. One direction will feel smoother, and the other rougher. This is because of the direction in which it was traveling when it was plied, and to a lesser degree the direction it was traveling when it was spun. Because the Merino Frappe is such a fluffy yarn, the difference in feel is pronounced. 
If you look carefully at the top strand of yarn in this picture, you can see that it’s fluffier. That’s the yarn which was stroked against the direction it was plied. The lower strand was stroked in the same direction it was plied, and is smoother.
I didn’t want the ball of yarn flipping or rolling around as I knit, especially not on a hospital floor, and for obvious reasons my ballwinder was not available, so I rewound it on the lovely applewood spindler’s nostepinde which Steve Paulsen of Spindlewood made for me.
(Hmmm, that picture is a bit wonky as it shows on WordPress, but I don’t know how to fix that yet, and need to be on my way, so that will have to wait.) It was very easy to rewind the ball on this nostepinde because the size fits so well in my hand that I could control the yarn easily at both the top and the lower ends of the ball.
