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Yarn Winding with Llamacorn – from a hank to a cake

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Yarn winding can be so boring, but not with Llamacorn!! Llamacorn will show you how to use your swift and ball winder to get your yarn from a hank to a cake.

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Products used in this post were provided by WeCrochet (and Kyla). All opinions are my own.

What is This Twisty Yarn Thing and How Do I Use it?

Many LYS yarns come in twisted hanks. When you are ready to create you can take off the label and untwist the yarn hank, and you end up with a big loop of yarn with a few ties around it. While it does fit nicely over the back of a chair, it still has a tendency to turn into a tangled mess if you try to use it that way.

This is why it’s a good idea to wrap it into a ball or hank. You can try hand-winding, and if you use something like a nostepinne (it looks like a tall and skinny cone and you wind the yarn around it), you can get a lovely wound ball of yarn. Hand-winding does take a while.

There is an easier way. You can use tools such as a yarn swift and yarn winder. With the tools you can quickly make an evenly wound ball or cake of yarn that is easy to use.

Yarn cakes made with a winder can be used as center pull or from the outside or even both at the same time! While it is tempting to stack them neatly on a shelf, it’s a good idea not to wind your yarn until you are ready to use it. The reason for this is that winding yarn can stretch it, even with good tension.

Supplies

Llamacorn wants to be sure you know what supplies he’s using and why. He also wants you to be able to purchase them for yourself, so be sure to click the links!

Swift

A yarn swift will help keep tangles out of your hanks of yarn as you wind them. The two most common kinds or swifts are the kind often called an Amish swift and the umbrella swift. For this video, Llamacorn is using an umbrella swift from WeCrochet / Knit Picks.

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Ball Winder

There are lots of yarn ball winders out there. You can find a huge variety on Amazon. Some are even electric. Llamacorn is making his center-pull ball of yarn with this this ball winder also from WeCrochet / Knit Picks.

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Yarn

If it’s in a hank, you can wind it as Llamacorn will show you. If it’s a skein of yarn (like what many craft store yarns are) or some other form of already wound yarn, you can still wind it on a yarn winder. You often won’t need the swift in that situation.

Llamacorn is winding one of my own yarn creations I made using a bare (undyed) yarn that you can find here and then dyed it myself. It’s kind of a galaxy look. You can learn how I dyed the yarn HERE.

Little Scissors

You need something to cut those ties with!

Yarn Winding with Llamacorn Video

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