Welcome back to the blog pals, this week I am showing you 3 ways to wind yarn. When it comes to buying yarn, there are a ton of different ways it can be packaged for you to use. Sometimes it comes in yarn cakes, yarn balls, center pull skeins, cones, and hanks. This post is specifically talking about hanks and how to turn them from a hank into a cake or usable ball of yarn.
3 Ways To Wind Yarn
I show all 3 ways to wind yarn in the video above, but below are the links to the tools I use as well as a little bit of a description. I hope this helps!
Yarn Winder and Swift
This is the easiest and most expensive way to wind your yarn out of the 3 ways to wind yarn. You will need to purchase a yarn swift and a yarn winder. Both linked are the ones I use and have owned for 3+ years at this point. (I had the yarn swift in light brown in Michigan, and then one of my best friends bought me the same one in black when I couldn’t bring mine with me in the move.)
Yarn Winder: https://amzn.to/48paI9D
Yarn Swift: https://amzn.to/48v98mB
Using you head – err, I mean – knees to wind yarn?
Okay this one is free, but can be a little tricky at first. What you need is your knees, a chair or two, or a person with two arms that can sit still for 20 minutes or so. First you will unwind your yarn and snap it a few times to straighten the fibers. Then you will loop the inside of the skein around your knees, the back of the chair, or put your assistants arms through the middle. From here you will find the ends, cut the ties holding it together, and then start winding your yarn into a ball or a center pull cake.
Is winging the winding an option?
And here is the most risky choice, but the one I have done more times than I probably should have, the “lay it down on the table and go really really slow method”.
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