KNITPRO KP10941 Ball Winder-Assortment Product White & Trimits REVOLVING Wool Ball Holder Keep Your Knitting Knot Free with The Wooden Spinning Yarn Winder

This unit works very well, and I have no hesitation in recommending it. However, there is something that needs mentioning.I see some reviewers saying that it did not wind propely but left a donut shaped mess on the bobbin. There is a very good reason why this happened, and it has nothing to do with the winder. It is the yarn. It can be difficult to wind slippery, slick or smooth yarns, such as cotton or super smooth acrylic yarns, because the yarn slips down the ball. These types of yarn can successfully be wound on one of these winders (I have just wound some King Cole Smooth DK with it, which is an exceptionally slick yarn) but there is a technique for doing so. Namely, do not pass the yarn through the curly wire holder, but feed it onto the spinning bobbin directly from your fingers, as close to the bobbin as you can without touching it.There are videos on YouTube that demonstrate this. Just search for Winding Slippery Yarns posted by Strauchfiber (I tried posting a link to the video but apparently it's against Amazon's rules, so they rejected my first review with a slapped wrist. Naughty me).If you follow these instructions you will have no more spaghetti donuts, but beautifully wound, criss cross centre pull balls of yarn.Happy spinning.

Ah I could make cakes all day with this gadget! It's very addictive, or maybe it's just me :) I love winding my wool into cakes, they are so much easier to store and also really easy to knit or crochet from when you are ready. There are a couple of notches on the central plastic post for you to pull the wool end through to start. I ended up putting a dot against one end, to mark which side had the end of the wool. I did this because when you come to take the cake off the spindle, the tension makes it tighten up in the middle to prevent it unwinding, so I find the end of the wool before I remove it. Then when the cake 'closes' up in the middle you already have the end in your hand rather than trying to fish it out afterwards.The device attaches to a table easily with a clamp mechanism and it sits very firmly. Before clamping, make sure you pull out the metal arm that holds the wool feed as you won't be able to move it once it is clamped in place. Make sure you wind the wool correctly around the loop on the arm before pulling the end of the yarn into the grooves on the top and you are good to go.I bought this item together with a skein winder that holds my wool skein and once you have both set up, the whole process is really quite fast. BUT be warned if you use a separate skein winder with this because this item has no momentum - it stops immediately you stop turning the handle, but your skein winder will not and you can get in quite a pickle if you go too fast.I also used it to wind balls of wool quite successfully. I put the ball into a yarn bowl which allows it to move freely whilst winding it onto the cake winder. You may need to experiment to find the best placing for the bowl to get a nice an even wind; in both winding scenarios I tend to hold the wool and let it slip through my fingers to get a nice and even tension as without doing this your cake could be quite loose.

i love this product. As a compulsive knitter/crocheter i have a huge stash of wool to stay married a while longer it has become necessary to tidy and sort the stash. My wool is now gardually being sorted into tidy balls and clearly labeled and surprisingly taking up less storage space than before - which means of course that i can buy more woll and husband will be none the wiser.

I have been using a wool winder from the 1960s for many years and decided the time was right to invest in a new one. I decided on the Knit Pro model as I have used some of their other products and found the quality to be very good. The only problem I found with the winder is that sometimes the yarn comes out of the slot on the top of the winder when starting out, but that isn't a major problem. The yarn winds easily and efficiently round the spool to create a neat cake. I have managed to wind a 100g ball of double knitting but felt that was about the limit of this particular winder. It is perfect for creating cakes of yarn from any left over balls from projects and will minimise the storage and scruffy ends from half used balls of yarn. I cannot comment on the durability of the winder yet as I have only had it a few days but it does feel like a good product.

I am very pleased with this Knit Pro ball winder now that I am getting the hang of using it correctly. I had the most difficulty with winding the very first part of the yarn onto the cone without the end of the yarn slipping out of the groove and falling off the cone. Once the tail end is properly secured however the rest is easy. The original ball of yarn ends up as a nice flat yarn cake that will then stack with others of the same or similar size. I use the yarn from the inside when using the finished cakes as they then stay stationary making knitting or crocheting with them so much easier. Occasionally I would hear a noise coming from underneath the device which I later realized was the yarn that had got caught around the underneath of the turning section. You have to be careful that you not only keep the yarn that is feeding through your left hand to tension but that you also hold it up and away from the winding mechanism. I am happy to say that I now have lots of neatly stacked yarn cakes ready for use. If you can get past any initial problems this is a fantastic little yarn winder. It copes just as well with 100g balls as it does with 50g balls. I am so glad i discovered it.

I love this. Half an hour after I received it I had made a dozen wool cakes. So easy. I found you need to make a knot in the end of the wool to stop it coming off the top of the spindle and it won't take a full 100gm of dbl knit but my wool is so much nicer and using a wooden wool spinner to knit from after I've wound my cakes keeps my wool neat and runs smoothly. I've given the mechanism a drop of machine oil and that has made it quieter to use.