Check-In Post - January 7th 2025

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: If you're making any, what are your crafting resolutions for 2025?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[althea_valara]

There sure is!

They clamp to the edge of a table, and then you insert the yarn tail into a slit on it, crank a handle, and the thing spins in a wobble so that it creates a flat cake of yarn. Mine is not the best brand; I've had issues with it not creating neat cakes. But I will give it another try for this project.

Ball winders are often used in conjunction with a swift, which is a contraption that holds open a hank of yarn for you. There's two main kinds of swifts, umbrella (which can collapse like an umbrella) and Amish (they have two long pieces of wood that cross over each other to make four "arms" with pegs in them to hold the yarn). I have an Amish swift and I love it, it was well worth the price even though I don't really need it much.

Finally, there's a Nostepinne, which is a tool used to help hand wind balls of yarn so they don't get so tight/stretched out. You can buy fancy ones, but really, any rigid cylinder will do. I've heard of people using empty prescription medicine bottles.