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DIY Yarn Ball Winder

That’s the simplest version of a self-made electric yarn ball winder I’ve ever seen.
Ingenious, isn’t it? :)

I discovered that there are tons of instructions on the subject of pumpkin, in the next time I will present you some of them.
The found instructions work with paper, plastic, polymer clay, cord, food – and yarn balls ;-)

They are cute, the yarn ball pumpkins, aren’t they? :)

Links:
Yarn Ball Pumpkin (DIY Fall Festival and an Autumn craft so easy your cat can do it!)

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Entries containing the word ‘pumpkin’
Entries with the tag ‘paper’
Entries with the tag ‘plastic’
Entries with the tag ‘polymer clay’
Entries with the tag ‘cord’
Entries with the tag ‘food’
Entries with the tag ‘yarnball’

Yarnbombing Station

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Yarnbombing is fun, but you need many different yarnballs for this.
What about a yarnbombing station to organize all necessary yarnballs? ;-)

Links:
Yarnbombing Station

English Wikipedia entry for ‘Yarn bombing’
German Wikipedia entry for ‘Yarnbombing’
Google search result for ‘Yarnbombing’

Dying Self-Striping Yarn

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I presented an entry about yarn dying before, but I’m a ~~Lace knitter~~ Lace knitter and love selfstriping yarn with looong colour gradients.
Now I can dye my own selfstriping yarn ;-)

Links:
Dying Self-Striping Yarn (Self-Striping Yarn (with a Warping Board) Tutorial)
via: Craftster Best of 2011 – FIBER ARTS – Dyeing: Completed Projects

Here at unikatissima:
Yarn Dying
~~unikatissima’s Lace knitting patterns~~
You can find my designs now at ravelry

Braided Yarn Join

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If you work with yarns you must sometimes join two ends, e.g. if the yarn broke, the ball is finished or the like.
With some (nature) yarns you can ‘cold felt’ them, with others it doesn’t work.
Recently I learned about the braided yarn join and it seems to work great, many think it’s the best for joining fine yarns.

Links:
Braided Yarn Join (Joining Yarn – The invisible Braided Join with 1 color yarn – Knitting and Crochet) (Video)
via: Joining Lace Weight Yarn – Specifically the slippery stuff!

Here at unikatissima:
Joining Yarns

Tripling Yarn

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Sometimes you have fine yarn that you want to work multistranded.
You can simply work from both ends of a skein to double it, if you want to triple it though, you simply must have three skeins – but only, if you don’t know how to triple the yarn very easily ;-))

Links:
Tripling Yarn (Navaho (Navajo) Knitting) (Video)

Self-made Ball Winder

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If you really dye your own yarn you have to wind your wool afterwards.
That can take quite some time (I speak from my own experience) and so a self-made ball winder would perhaps be of help ;-)

Links:
Home Made Ball Winder
Note: I had to fill in a captcha (a form field to enter a distorted text) before I could see the entry.

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Yarn Dying