Yarn Ball Winder Not Working
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Yarn ball winder not working. Ravelry has saved the day for me. My spouse was able to fix the problem. Sure it costs more but its really well made nothing can slip nothing grinds and it can hold quite a lot of yarn if you want or need it to. The knit picks ball winder is a great inexpensive ball winder.
Our recommendations for those in a hurry. The best for most people stanwood needlecraft 10oz yarn ball winder this stanwood is a solid choice great value reliable and suitable for most projects. I am obviously very disappointed. To use just attach to any table edge or.
When this happens your beautiful yarn cakes turn into a loose tangled pile of mess. Knit picks yarn ball winder. I thought i d share my new knowledge for the rest of the world. I suspect the motor is not very good.
What the yarn stores use nancy s knit knacks heavy duty ball winder nancy s is a sheer joy to wind super sturdy fast durable tough and long lasting enough to pass onto the next. This easy to use electric yarn ball winder worked wonderfully for the first 5 skeins of yarn but then it stopped working. The first troubling thing was the spare part in my hand. Unfortunately the knit picks ball winder has a tendency to slip gears.
The particular brand i purchased is the knit picks yarn ball winder but i imagine many of them are built the same way. I tried a great multitude of plastic yarn ball winders and they slipped grinded or generally gave not great results. Yesterday i broke out my new knitpicks ball winder and a hank of gloss and i had some difficulties fortunately this ravelry thread set me straight. Then i got one of these standwood ball winders and ive never looked back.
This ball winder is a little work horse for me and for the most part does a great job winding yarn into nice little cakes. Easily winds up to 100 grams or 3 5 ounces of yarn from lace and fingering weights to worsted and bulky weights. Too much money spent for only five balls. I love them so much that i have owned two of them.
Also a yarn winder does as much in one turn of the crank as what you can do by hand in 25. To me you either wind yarn into actual balls by hand and use a yarn bowl to keep it from flopping around like a fish out of water or you use a yarn ball winder to form center pull yarn cakes that sit flat and won t move around as you work.