There are so many to choose from...the prices vary so much. Can anyone recommend a yarn winder? Thanks...
Yarn Winder
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I'm so glad I live in UK and don't have any need for yarn winders!
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I would wind it for you myself if I lived closer to you. I work cheap. ????mernie said:
(No disrespect meant)
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You never have yarn in hanks available in the UK that need to be wound into balls or cakes so they can be easily knitted from?tatsfieldknitter said:
I love the variety of hanked yarns available... does mean some work. If I buy at a LYS they will often wind it... but if I order it, it is nice to have a way to do it.
And then there are times that I want wind two skeins together to make my own specialty yarn.
mernie:
The ones mentioned are great. There are also less expensive but more labor intensive ways to do this... not mechanical.
There was a post a bit ago about using a dollar store flashlight, removing it's parts and using it to do a nice ball winder. If you want that, respond and I'll go find it...
I assume you have a swift to work with if you are working from hanks?
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.tatsfieldknitter said:
Do you not get yarn in hanks? Usually here in the states, hand dyed wool comes in hanks. Lots of other yarns come in skeins, which are already wound.
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I have managed without a yarn winder for 75 years...so thank you for clever replies..
My son made a swift for me a couple of years ago and I do like it very much. Now I am, again, working on a couple of projects using two kinds of yarn together..I thought it would be helpful to use a winder.
Thank you for your suggestions, I will look for the brand that several of you recommended.
My son made a swift for me a couple of years ago and I do like it very much. Now I am, again, working on a couple of projects using two kinds of yarn together..I thought it would be helpful to use a winder.
Thank you for your suggestions, I will look for the brand that several of you recommended.
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I have the Royal & paid about $30 for it (on sale). It is made in Japan, about six years old & have never had a problem with it. Although I wind my yarn up pretty fast, I make sure to guide the yarn through my fingers to relax the tension so it's not wound too tight. Feeling the yarn through my fingers also helps me check for large slubs or knots that I don't want in my yarn cakes. The Royal comes in too sizes. Mine is the smaller & not the jumbo size which I really don't need. However, I can still wind some pretty large cakes on it. You might consider a jumbo size if you wind large hanks or if you want to rewind the larger jumbo skeins that have a lot of yardage. The only criteria I considered is that I don't like the exposed gears like those on some of the Stanwood models. There's always a chance your yarn could get caught up in one of the gears & prefer that they be enclosed where you can't see them or accidently damage them. There are lots of other brands & choices online.
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There's only one, Stanwood. Not cheap but worth every penny. I need it for my yarn business.
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You do, that's how I sell my dyed yarns in the UK . I do offer a cake winding serviceViwstitcher said:
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I live in the UK. I'm always using my yarn winder. Some yarn does come in hanksknit4ES said:
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Hi I have lots of yarn I need to wind. I mainly buy lace yarn. Most yarns here that you do not have to wind tend to be generic and mass produced, I got my yarn winder and swift from Amazon was not very expensive but it does the job.
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I do get some hanks from yarn fairs or special hand dyed yarns so I have a yarn winder for those occasions. I don't recall seeing hanks in yarn stores but they are few and far between these days.
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Sorry didn't know - only use acrylic or cotton!desireeross said:
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Hand dyed skeins here in uk are becoming more popular or really expensive yarns come in skeins now but mainly balls! When I was little everything came in skeins & like Ellie61knit it was my job to sit with the skein on my knees & wind it into a ball. I was very proud when my legs became long enough to do this job for my mum as she hated doing it!
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