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[susandennis]

Ok, I took the fresh skein of Caron and wound it up on my new winder.



Worked fine.

I'm not sure why you would do this unless you had knitting more than halfway through and the original skein was losing its integrity. A new original skein would work better than these cakes for knitting/crocheting along. BUT it was a good experiment to try. And I learned a couple of tricks and that a nice, steady rhythm is the name of the game.



The winder does NOT like to make big balls/cakes. The biggest one is too loose so I rewound it. Here's the whole skein.

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[(Anonymous)]

Hi Susan,

It's been my experience that the ball winders work best when you put a bit of tension on the yarn source going onto the ball winder. It makes a tighter, neater cake. I'm a spinner and use a ball winder often.

Ann in Ontario

[susandennis]

Thanks, Ann. I suspected as much. Using the swift gives me good tension. Just unwinding the skein, not so much. Good to know for sure!

[(Anonymous)]

Happy to help. When I first saw your camera on Opentopia I kept tuning in to see what kind of spinning wheel you owned. I could see you sitting on the couch with your knitting and a big opened drawer beside you that looked like it contained sheep fleece. Turned out to be poly stuffing for your bears, lol.

I suspect you may fall down the rabbit hole one day and buy a spinning wheel to make your own amazing yarn.

Ann in Ontario.

[susandennis]

Years and years ago I learned how to spin yarn and quickly came to better appreciate that which was already spun for me :)

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

So you just don’t put it on that frame thing at all. Makes sense unless there’s a big snarl in the middle. And there always is for me. :-)

Last Christmas my daughter gave me a yarn ball that holds the yarn really well, but I would think it has to be a literal ball, to roll inside the plastic holder. Not sure the “cakes” would do that.

Thanks for researching!

[tilia-tomentosa.livejournal.com]

I almost envy you your new toy, although I don't even have any yarn to wind right now. :)