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I use it at home. it is just right for that.

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This attached immediately to my thick wooden table

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so far, so good. This makes producing balls of yarn a whole lot easier. Haven't had a problem with it so far!

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Making an afghan with lots and lots of yarn. Could have asked the yarn store to wind, but it would have taken them a good while. Happy to have this convenient gizmo to save the day!

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I love this ball winder. It does an excellent and works more smoothly than the other ball winders I've owned.

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Will wind large skeins.

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Great investment...I re-took up crocheting with the encouragement from a friend as a relaxation technique and quickly got interested in lacy projects and fine yarns. But all the time winding took away from my projects. This really is a time saver. I made my own swift to go with it for less than $15.

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I bought one of these a few years ago thinking it was a self-indulgent little treat...and boy, was I wrong!

Winding yarn into cakes lets me organize my stash and workbag (DeWalt and Husky gator bags) better. The center-pull yarn cakes treat the yarn nicely by giving them structure (I wind a band of old-fashioned adding-machine paper tape around each cake, with the yarn label taped on). It saves my working hands and wrists from the painful repetitive motions of winding. It goes really fast! The cakes are much less prone to "yarn barf." And it makes the continual pulling out of lengths of yarn in use much easier and smoother. I normally park my in-process yarn cakes in a small metal mixing bowl or various plastic bins.

Also I live with a house chicken, and while normally demure, she turns into SoccerSaurus when a rolling/in-use yarn ball is visible. The yarn cake format doesn't seem to intrigue her as much, so she settles for kicking finished unmated socks around the room.

I used to be frustrated by the size limit of about 100 g (which you can extend a bit if you work carefully and gently nudge the guide-loop wire outward while controlling the angle the yarn feeds onto the spool). Over time I've gotten used to it.

Best of all, winding my stash into yarn cakes has, ahem, let me buy more yarn. You can take that as a cautionary observation. Neatly wrapped yarn cakes take up much less space than the various balls and skeins. I have a rule that I cannot buy more yarn unless there is space in my existing storage system.

One last thing, I use this tool to wind yarn cakes from skeins directly off the yarn swift I hacked from an IKEA tabletop lazy susan. It might also work with the other sorts of swifts as well.

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Works wonderfully. Very smooth operation.

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Having my own yarn swift and ball winder lets me wind the yarn whenever. I don't have to take it to the LYS (a bit embarassing when you purchase the yarn online) and I don't have to rely on someone else (or a chair)