What do you get when you put together a wine bottle, some hockey tape and a bunch of wire hangers? No, not a take on Newfie ice hockey (please forgive me if I've offended any New Foundlanders, I'm from New Brunswick, so I'm practically one of you guys), but a cheap person's yarn swift. 
A couple weeks back I mentioned that I had ordered a yarn ball winder on line and was impatiently awaiting its delivery. Well, it arrived on Saturday morning and I immediately had to see how it worked. So in my haste and in my frugalness I put together this contraption. I found the tutorial here and after a few modifications (added an extra hanger and used hockey tape instead of duct tape because my husband is not that handy but can play a mean game 'o hockey when he wants to) I got it to work, more or less.
Top view of the crude contraption (please ignore our dangerous mess of electrical cords)
A couple weeks back I mentioned that I had ordered a yarn ball winder on line and was impatiently awaiting its delivery. Well, it arrived on Saturday morning and I immediately had to see how it worked. So in my haste and in my frugalness I put together this contraption. I found the tutorial here and after a few modifications (added an extra hanger and used hockey tape instead of duct tape because my husband is not that handy but can play a mean game 'o hockey when he wants to) I got it to work, more or less. 
Top view of the crude contraption (please ignore our dangerous mess of electrical cords)
It was still way faster than winding by hand and resulted in these lovely little cakes. Sweet!
7 comments:
This is awesome! Ingenuity at its finest.
The hockey tape application could have been used for the line in that Molson Canadian commercial "You think hockey tape can fix anything..."
What a great idea! I can just imagine the conversations that would happen when friends came over and I "accidently" left it out on the table.
oooooohhhh! those yarn cakes are PURTY!!!! :D
You MacGuyver'd it! Cool.
A ball winder is also an excellent tool should you have to rip. It's almost fun to let the ball winder do the work.
Hey whatever works, right?
I love making yarn cakes- so satisfying!
I was just going to type "Hey, whatever works right" and saw that the person who commented just before me, wrote that too! LOL..
So... "Whatever works!"
I did the trick!
I probably could find hockey tape more easily than I could find duct tape in my house too.
awesome!! You deserve a knitting badge!
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