by Kathy Chin
If you are a first class knitter who buys hand-spun yarn or other artisan yarn in hanks or skeins, you will very well need to purchase some kind of ball winder, with or without a swift. The ball winder has a shaft or shaft around which the yarn is wrapped, while the swift supports the yarn in such a manner that it can easily be fed on to the winder. Winders can be manual or electric, made of plastic or wood.
A popular , inexpensive model is the Lacis Yarn Ball Winder, a hand operated yarn winder which makes perfect pull thread balls up to 4 ounces without requiring tubes or cones. Its yarn feeder provides an even flow and forestalls tangling. Positive reviews say that it's cheap (under $30), transportable and handles all weights of yarn with equal ease. Less positive reviews complain it's a small capacity winder, only up to 4oz per ball, that the clamp is too little for some tables, and you need to maintain an even tension of the yarn feed in order to get a firm ball.
Very similar to the Lacis, is the Royal Wool Ball Winder. It is a little more expensive, but seems to be correspondingly tougher. The Royal is designed in such a manner that the yarn basically cannot get caught in the mechanism. It also clamps to a table and works best with a swift.
Nancy's Knit Knacks makes a slightly dear heavy usage wooden Ball Winder, typically designed for the yarn industry, but great at home, too. It is very strong with an enormous (high torque) wooden handle. The handle is cushty to use and very powerful, permitting it to wind fast, while making no noise. It can wind balls up to 1 Lb. Or even more.
If your arm tires simply employing a hand winder, the Boye Electric Yarn Ball Winder might be the solution.. It fast and simply winds hanks of yarn into centre-pull skeins. It can wind thin yarns together to make different colors and thicknesses. Some users protest that the yarn is wound to tightly, while others say the opposite, the ball is too loosely wound. Potentially the solution to the problem lies in adjusting the turn-rate. Other users have moaned that the smoothness of the plastic causes the yarn to slip off the end of the tube but lots of users find that the speed and simplicity of an electrical winder outweigh other troubles.
There's not a massive assortment of Ball Winders to select from. Factors that influence which one is correct for you include price, volume of wool you want to wind, and space you have available. The important decision is whether to desert Granny's back-of-the-chair strategy and invest in some technology to keep your knitting projects spinning along.
Check our overwhelmingly cool site about <a href="http://www.yarnballwinderguru.com">winding yarn</a> here. And look at this post about <a href="http://www.yarnballwinderguru.com">the Lacis Company</a>while you are there.
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Title: Selecting the perfect Yarn Winder
Author: Kathy Chin
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Keywords: yarn ball winder,knitting,crochet,yarn,hobbies,crafts,art,women
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Category: Hobbies
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