Helping Hands

I like to use a variety of threads in any project--some scavenged, picked up at yard sales or thrift shops, or from sale bins at local yarn stores--but one of my favorite all purpose yarns for crocheting is Sugar and Cream by Lily. (The folks at Lily did not pay me to say that.)  It comes in a pretty good range of colors and is reliably inexpensive.  It is nice and sturdy with a good hand, is great for dishcloths (comes with a free pattern on each label), but for my purposes it has one drawback:  it is too heavy.  It is a four-ply yarn so I have dealt with the problem by splitting the yarn into two two-ply balls.  This is extremely labor intensive.  It takes more than an hour to untwist the yarn and rewind it into smaller balls.  Today I had some help.