Richard Corliss

I first visited the Toronto fest in 1979, its fourth edition, when it was known as the Festival of Festivals and had an audience of about 40,000. I happily returned to the 10-day skein nearly every year thereafter, as attendance swelled to 400,000 and it grew into the most influential film festival in North America, perhaps the world.

American Writer

Christina Baker Kline

For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments.

American Novelist

Aldo Leopold

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

American Environmentalist

Used often in crafting hobbies; not to be confused with a finished product.

Crafting Context

A skein is yarn not yet wound into a ball and may become tangled if not handled carefully.

Unwound Yarn

Imagine a loosely coiled bundle or a thick braid to visualize a skein of yarn.

Visualize Shape

Used to describe geese in flight, giving a visual pattern they form in the sky.

Natural Observation

A skein often indicates seasonal change, as geese fly in formation during migration.

Seasonal Migration

A skein is a metaphor for entangled situations or stories which need to be sorted out.

Metaphor for Complexity

Use 'skein' to imply a difficult problem that requires patience to understand fully.

Challenge to Solve

 had reached that conclusion, I would not presume to differ until he released me from my vow. And now he's dead, so I'm stuck with my vow. "Jó napot, Sandor!" I thought my skein of Hungarian mentors had come to an end,

Ben Dunlap: The...

 even tore the skein of the dropper and cuz it survived then I think it must been very very lucky you imagine such a giraffe with such a huge scar that's an

Skein