We purchase our garlic in a net bag and I have found the net bag to be perfect to hold a skein of yarn. It really contains the yarn when you are reaching the end of a skein. If your skein is too long for the one net bag, use two.
Has anyone else found something to work for no money??
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We are lucky this year to get a box of organic produced flown out to us once a week. The potatoes we get come in a small bag like the one your garlic comes in only it is larger and I have used them for the same thing. Those small bags work great.

Someone in our knitting group keeps her skein in a 2-liter soda bottle with the yarn coming out the top. She cut the base of the bottle off from the main part, inserted the yarn and pushed the two parts back together. She has the old type of bottle that has a separate base - I never see those types of bottles anymore.

If this is your stay at home project, threading it through the hole in the bottom of a clay flower pot keeps the yarn from being "catted". if you are winding balls from balls the flower pot helps to keep the skeins under some sort of control.

The traditional old round oatmeal boxes are great also. Punch a small hole in the top, pop the skein or ball in the box, thread the yarn through the hole and put the top back on. Keeps the yarn clean and untangled. Does anyone still eat regular oatmeal from a box?