Yarn Winder, Knitting Yarn Ball Winder,Knitting Wool Winder Holder, Swift Table Top Hand Operated Winder,Manual Wool Yarn Cone Ball Winder - 180x135x100mm

Bought this yarn winder as a gift for a friend. The size was great and it works well as long as you don’t put too much yarn into it or too thick of a yarn on it. It makes crocheting or knitting so much easier as you’re not having to unravel yarn from the ball and it just pulls so much easier. My friend has re-winded all yarns that she can to make projects easier, she’s very happy with it.

Once you get the hang of tension and which way is best to wind, this winder is great. It makes perfect little cakes that are much easier to work from than your typical skeen. It does what it says on the box. My only problem is once the cakes get a little bigger the wool sort of flips off and goes underneath the resting plate and into the gear mechanism but that’s easily fixed by winding a little slower and keeping an eye on your tension. You can’t really wind cakes bigger than 1 whole 100g skeen (so if you wanted to connect sirens for bigger cakes that won’t really work as quite a small device). There’s a good sturdy quality to this device too. It doesn’t feel flimsy when you’re using it. Apart from that I think that this winder is great for beginners and I would definitely recommend.

Good quality yarn winder, can work fast and rarely sticks. However, the little metal arm doesnt stay up properly by itself, so you either need to be very gentle or wrap something around it to hold it in place. It’s also a little on the small side, but not too bad overall. Good value for the price!

It's a decent product and does what is needed but the metal piece you thread the yarn through isn't stable in the slightest and constantly moves around if you don't hold it in place as well as the price that the yarn is spun on falls off if you accidentally spin it the wrong way, it doesn't come off immediately so it's mildly annoying to either put back on and continue doing so it the ball is at the end or starting all over again. Personally will be sticking with it cause the issues are easy to work with but it's something to keep in mind

Spot on for a wool winder

So I want to give this about 2.5 stars. It does work and for the price I found it let me try out if a yarn winder was something that I would use. I do use this regularly BUT the issue with it is the metal thing that needs to stand up to feed the yarn in does not stay up. For me I modified it with tape, but now it’s a bit awkward to put away as you can’t fold that piece down. I do use this but it would be great if that issue was fixed. Also just to add that it makes smaller yarn balls than I anticipated. I get around this by sort of sliding the yarn ball up, because if you don’t slide it up and just try to keep putting more wool on it will all get caught in the gears at the bottom.

Excellent little machine. Does what you need it to do. Works well.

The coil for the yarn feed is too tight to get the yarn through easily so you have to thread it like a needle. The clamp to secure the winder to a table is only threaded on one side of the bolt. The feeding arm is too low so yarn constantly drops and gets tangled in the gears. The arm doesn't secure so falls down randomly. Only buy this if you actively want to destroy every skein of yarn you own and/or want to spend an exceptional amount of time trying to detangle your yarn from the mechanism. I had a different branded winder previously that had none of these issues, safe to say I'm just going to go back to that brand if this is what the competition delivers.