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Mine too! I feel like it's the best way to avoid wasting yarn. As for your question, if I'm starting with a skein/anything hard to pull from, I make it into one ball. Then I borrow my husband's kitchen scale, tare it with a yarn bowl, and weigh the ball of yarn in grams. Leaving the ball on the scale, I hand roll a ball from the end until the number on the scale is half of the original number. I even swap the balls to make sure they weigh the same. Then I cut the yarn between the balls and just hope my gauge stays consistent enough to use up the yarn at the same rate!
Kitchen scale is how I did it, too. I'm doing my first pair like this and they are also taking ages. Feels like, anyway!
They look excellent. I really like the smooth rounding of the toes.
Thanks for sharing your process! I'll definitely have to try it at some point, I've just been winding my skeins into a cake and using both ends, but it's fiddley to make sure nothing gets tangled.