I use these clips with my Bond, in several different ways. When I change colors, I clip the tails together with one of these, then after a few rows are worked, I remove the clip and tie the ends together. When I need extra weight, I hang fishing weights attached to wire on the ends of the clips, and clip them directly to the fabric I'm making. I have one clip on my yarn box, the box I unravel a skein of yarn into. I pass the end of the yarn thru the finger tip area, which holds the yarn above the box and above the Bond, helping to keep it tangle free. I am currently working with some yarn that has so much static in it, it's nearly impossible to
Unravel and work with. So I ran the end of the yarn thru the spring on one of the clips, clipped it to the back of the box, then I took a clothes dryer sheet, the type that's used to soften clothes in the dryer, folded it in half, put the yarn in the fold, and clipped it to the top side of the box with 2 of the clips. Then ran the yarn thru the finger tip area of the clip on the front of the box. I've found that this does help keep the static low, if not doing away with it completely, but running it thru the folded dryer  sheet will bog down the yarn, so you'll have to pull it out rather than have the yarn just 'flow' into the carriage. I found my clips at a local drug store, in the camping section. Here are some web sites for you to order the clips directly, in case you cant find these in your area:
                                      http://www.campmor.com/webapp/commerce/command/ProductDisplay?prmenbr=226&prrfnbr=12187
http://www.jgwhyte.com/cloclips.htm
http://www.countrygeneral.com/cloclips.htm
http://www.redlineroadgear.com/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi?product=fastener&keywords=F108

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               January 2003


This is the way I have my yarn box set up, as described above, and a close up of just the clips. At times, I will need a bigger work table if I need to put the extension in the Bond, and when I do that, I use a larger box on the floor behind that table [the table is  longer, but not as wide as the one above], and I will use this smaller box [above] as a way to guide the yarn over the edge of the table and to the carriage, using just  2 clips, one at the back of the box, and one at the front. On the box on the floor, I will also use 2 clips, one at the front to guide the yarn out of the box, and one at the back of the box holding the tail of the skein that has been unraveled into the box. When I feel that tug as I'm knitting, I know I'm about out of yarn but might have enough to work the rest of that row. The photo of the clips with the fishing weights shows how I use them. I also use the fishing weights on S hooks, or you can use paper clips bent open [make sure they wont snag the yarn!]. My husband suggested I paint the weights, as they are lead, so I just coated them with pink nail polish. [I painted them after I took this photo]
{Fall 2003 - I recently bought an iron cord holder, one that clips to an ironing board and then you slip the iron cord thru the top of it. I have it clipped to the back of my work table, with the yarn threaded thru it from the box to the carriage, and it works great}

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