MESSY YARN? LEARN TO MAKE YARN CAKES IN MINUTES!

hello and welcome back to my crafty Patty Channel and yes I like to be a little crafty sometimes and in my last video I was showing you how I did my little crafty Patty toilet paper roll machine for multi strands of yarn hack and if you didn't see that by all means have a look at that but in that video I love it how all of you comment with your wonderful comments and you have such great ideas and you said why aren't you using a yarn Winder for all your yarn I going well I don't have one so I started thinking about it and all this would be so much easier again and even so much better so thank you for your ideas and comments so I have gone out and bought myself a yarn Winder to make yarn cakes therefore the yarn is going to come out of the center of your ball it's not going to roll around the table it's nice and neat and tidy and so my next project with you is I'm going to demonstrate this particular yarn Winder that I got and I'll explain a little bit more about that in a minute but as you can see I've got two bins of yarn and I'm in a mess I don't know if I'm coming or going I've got different types of weighted yarn in different colors all over the place pleas and look at this mess so we're going to show you how it we turn this into [Music] this and as always I will have a link to the supplies in the description box below the video and in this booklet it does have um threading instructions how to put it all together pretty straightforward but I will show you as well so I did do a bit of research because you can pick up these for the manual ones but you just use your a winding method and you do it by hand and the comments that I found and the reviews were not the greatest it was people were having trouble with tension and they just didn't seem to be working great so I splurged and went for an electric yarn Winder now I'm not going to try to pronounce this word that is the brand of the electric yarn Winder I purchased so it was pretty simple it came with a a little instruction booklet and it's come with um a screwdriver and extra screws and all you've got is came with three pieces this and this and the actual main unit actually four pieces into your electrical cord so all you have to do is insert that into the slot use your screwdriver that's supplied and screw into this portion that's all there was for that and then this part for your yarn you just match up the little slots here give it a turn and then that's ready to go simple as that and this one can attach to any table that will allow it to sit on there this one is working fine just tighten that one up and then as you can see the way they've designed this is that the hole for the yarn to go through is off the table Edge so it's easy to insert your yarn what they do Supply is similar to uh cell phone cording is you you just got found this end that goes into your Winder and you will need some type of adapter that you can insert for your electrical and the sand just goes into your Winder over here and here's your on switch and you can see it turning around I haven't inserted any y yet and then it will go up as as uh fast as [Music] that so let's add some yarn and let's see how this works let's start with this one and see what we get I am going to take it from the center of the ball rather than the outside and I'm just going to place it in a basket on the floor here and the threading is pretty straight forward up through that bottom hole and then here's your first tension and it just pulls forward like this and you'll see behind there's a little bar and the yarn just goes in between like so then it comes up through that little guide there and again there's going to be a little bar right there and you tuck it in between that bar so it's going between the two like so and then after that system out of you can just I'm just trying to get rid of some of the ex excess here you can wrap it around the base here and then there's just two slits in the top here that you just pull it through to make sure it stays in place and then you just turn it on and as we said before there's our on switch you can decide how fast you want to go and what I like to do also is just hold my hand here in case you can see where I've got like a bunch of stuff happening here I'm just going to clean that up and make sure that doesn't cause any problems and then continue [Music] on normally what will happen is you'll see like a bunch of like that it will untangle itself and then it go through okay let's see about that one so it's stilling not too bad but if you end up with something like this on your yarn that you're trying to put into a neat ball then do try to untangle it because it will just stop obviously you can't expect it to go through that but this is why we're making these neat balls so you don't have to contend with this while you're working on your project so as you can see it's not always foolproof taking your yarn from the center of a ball because I ended up with a big rats but I had patience on doing and no guarantees that there not going to be another one but that's the beauty of doing this so you've always got your cakes ready to go not free and I'll be so happy when I've got all of this neat and tidy so I'm going to continue wrapping this one ball and then I'll get back to you with some other types of yarn just see how they work I'll just show you one here that's the completed yarn cake from that one that we had that we had the big Rat's Nest in and there I've got my Center ready to go and oh it's just going to be so much easier so I'm really glad that I'm doing up all my yarn cakes so let's try a bulkier yarn and it does say to skip the first spring so let's come up here and we're just going to work on the outside there come back through the edge here and we will put it into this spring here and again you have to just get it into that little slot there I showed you on the other one and we'll just wrap around once and then bring it into the slots there okay let's see how we do on this [Music] just at the end of the ball here so we'll just help it along a little bit [Laughter] [Music] [Music] and no complaints there that wound up beautifully as well and that was a thicker yarn again we can just tuck that end in and there's the C of our yarn and how about something like this what will it do with this bulky yarn but it's kind of bumpy in some spots than thinner in others let's see how it does with that again I think I'm going to bypass that first spring and we'll just bring it up into this one and let's see how this one does [Music] very pleased with that it had no problem with the different weight and the uh different thinness and thickness throughout that yarn all right I am going to continue to clean up my mess over there oh and look at this this just makes me feel so good I know it's going to be easy to work with here's all my worsted yarn all nicely wound in cakes and then I've got all my bulky Yarns over here and by all means if you're worried about losing your labels you can just roll it up like I've done here and pop it into the center of your ball and you have your yarn label if needed so there you go I'm in heaven [Music] and now as you can see I've got nicely wound cakes for my project still with my crafty Patty little machine here where I can use multiple strands of yarn and look at that I'm so pleased with that and as you can see I'm still working on this beautiful baset it's going to be nice and big and I want to get a little taller and in the next video coming up I will be demonstrating on how to make these baskets so keep your notification button on and look forward to the next video coming up bye-bye for now [Music]