Yarn Winding

Week 8 = Knitting Accessories
Day 5 = February 23, 2014


     Ball, Hank, Cake... What do these 3 things have in common? They are all yarn and how it is presented.

• Ball - is your standard center pull yarn that you can find at Joann's, Michaels, A.C. Moore and Wal-Mart, and yarn shops.
• Hank - is yarn that is twisted and looped through itself and needs to be wound into a ball or cake for ease of knitting.
• Cake - is yarn that has been wound on a yarn ball winder. Typically, this is done with a hank of yarn.

     Accessories like a yarn ball winder, yarn swift, yarn meter and scale are extremely helpful when you want to rewind remnant yarn, split a ball of yarn in half for socks, keep track of weight so that you can easily calculate yarn left after a project, and so on.

 KnitPicks Yarn Ball Winder

 Yarn ball winder in action, do not forget to hold the yarn as it

is going through the metal ring to provide a little tension.

 Yarn swift all folded up.

 Yarn swift opened up waiting for a hank of yarn.

Yarn swift with a hank of yarn ready to be connected to the

yarn ball winder and wound into a beautiful yarn cake.

Generation II Yarn Meter from Nancy's Knit Knacks

I DREAM of getting one of these... drool.

Biggest Loser Food scale found at Target.

 

     I love winding yarn with my yarn ball winder. Just a note for when you are winding yarn from a ball. For me, it works best to put the ball of yarn on the floor so that it has a little more tension. A quick spot cleaning of the floor is a good idea because your yarn will move around a bit when being wound.

 

Question of the day

Which of these items is your favorite?

 

Knitting and Winding,

 



Victoria