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| Make Your Own Power Yarn Winder Page 2 |
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| I worked the mixer speed controls (Fig-08), while my son unwound the yarn from the hank for me (slowly enough so the yarn wouldn't tangle on the floor, yet fast enough to keep the tension on the mixer loose). It took awhile for us to get in sync, but after we got our rhythm together, I was able to speed up the mixer a bit (only slowing it down or stopping it when the yarn got tangled or when we found knots in the yarn). I was able to wind 8 ounces of fingering yarn onto one cardboard tube. Fig-11 & Fig-12 show my skein at various stages in the winding. |
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| When the skein got full enough that the yarn would slip under the hook when my hand was at the bottom position, I found it necessary to add the spinning "bowl holder" (Fig-13). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| If you're using a handheld mixer, you may be able to wind only 4-5 ounces per skein, but feel free to experiment. After the entire hank was wound (Fig-12), I removed the hook from the mixer, and then the skein from the hook (Fig-14 & Fig-15). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Don't worry if your first skein doesn't look as neat as mine when it's finished. You will get better and wind the yarn more evenly with practice. The skein in the photos was my third. My first two skeins weren't even close to being this neat. ;-) If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail me. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| (c) Vicky R. Peterson Copyright notice: These instructions may be freely copied for personal or non-profit use as long as this copyright notice is included. If you want to copy these instructions for business use, please e-mail me. |
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