Learn how to wind a yarn ball with only your hands and a paper towel roll. This tutorial is easy to follow and will allow you're crochet experience to be much easier without dealing with all those knots. www.allfreecrochet.com/Tutorials
This tutorial helped me A LOT! I was just preparing for a HUGE crochet project and I just had a mess of pink yarn. I watched your tutorial and i got this done in like 2 hours! It's was just so so simple. thank you so so much for the tutorial!
I've watched a bunch of tutorials on how to hand-wind yarn into a cake but yours is the only one that lets me end up with an actual cake and not a pine shape kind of ball. Thank you!
Oh my gosh! That was so easy! I can't wait to try it myself. I have hanks of yarn that I bought and am making a sweater for my daughter. I have used my footstool to hold the hank and then just rolled it up in a ball, which as you know will roll all over the room. Awesome, thank you so much for sharing this trick!
Thank you so much! I am a total newbie and I basically ended up with a mess of knots with my first hank. Luckily I had another and used your video to make my first yarn ball.
how I wind a ball of yarn. I take the cotton peaches n cream and sugar and creme yarn cones. The yarn cones have a slit on the bottom and cotton on top. when empty I just reuse the cones with any yarn. Wrap the yarn over the cones and then place the cones on the floor next to me and then crochet. Question: has anyone else reused the cotton yarn cones?
Will you please tell me the size of "one" of your cubicles behind you. I need one so bad ... maybe I can get my brother to build one for his 75 year old sister. If I have the size of "one", I can measure my "spot" and see how many cubicles it will store.Good job on the video.Thank you kindly.
Why my does not look like cake? Its bulky in center. And above and below less yarn. I cant stand up in table its roll. Thanks ( sorry, my english is not good)
What I do is Take a toilet paper roll and cut slit on top and slit across the way on the top ( 2 slits on top) Then put slit on bottom. Now the winding part: Put yarn in bottom slit, bring up and put into the two slits on the top. With yarn going along side the toilet paper roll wrap the yarn over it... count to twenty, then turn toilet paper roll straight up and wrap yarn over it... count to 10, turn toilet paper roll a little bit and wrap yarn, count to 10 Continue to turn, wrap to 10 count and turn until all yarn is wounded on toilet paper roll! Then take the bottom and put upwards, take out yarn string and push the rest of the yarn up off the roll! Makes a nice center pull yarn cake!
I followed these instructions, but ended with a mess that took almost two hours to untangle and then hand-wind into two balls... Sorry, this video did not work for me at all. User error? not sure, but I will not try this technique again; the possibility of being left with such a mess is too great a gamble.
+defenderofthewheat In this case, this giant ball of yarn was wound by hand. It took me forever! By doing the criss-cross like pattern while winding, you'll end up with a more cake-like ball like those wound on a winder. I hope that helps!
You did two things wrong here, and you should have pointed this out. First of all, by having the person holding the hank, and removing the length of yarn as you did, you are changing the twist in the yarn. Secondly, by winding the ball the way you did, you are also changing the twist in the yarn. Every spinner knows this, and every good teacher is aware of this and would not "forget" to tell us about that. Why did you?? Why?
Y’all we don’t spin our own fucking yarn, we’re just people too poor to buy spinners that like to be creative. Shut the hell up, you obviously don’t even need to be watching this video.
