Classic Knit Wooden Spinning Yarn & Thread Holder - Each

I needed to quit chasing my yarn around my living room whole I crocheted! Ordered this as I'd looked in a local store and theirs was plastic with a price tag of almost $20 higher... Came in a plastic bag rather than a box. It was wrapped very well with bubble wrap. I'm not sure what my mailman thought was in the plastic bag though.....He chuckled out loud when he put it on the table... OMG! So, they might want to make the packaging square or something. The quality is great and the wood is very smooth, I've not had any issues of snagging. Weight is sufficient, no tipovers. I read other reviews where some yarn got caught underneath but I have not had this issue yet. Spool spins nicely. Definitely recommend for the price. And it is wood, not plastic junk!

I love this yarn spinner. It makes it so much easier to crochet you just can’t do the center pull using this device. Some yarns it doesn’t matter how you pull it but if I need to center pull like the red heart all in one granny yarn I just wind it into a cake. I’m so glad I found this. It’s much better than the dangle magnetic yarn spinners.

When I got it, it didn't look like the product that is shown in the picture. Was skeptical about using it. However, once I did I was pleasantly surprised. Smooth motion when using and does the job that I need it to do. The spindle is much larger than what is advertised but it works.

Awesome

So I order two of these. One was fine. No problems, one was broken. I requested a return label and a new one. Got the new one and put some yarn on it to test it out since it didn't seem to spin as smoothly. Then noticed it snagged my yarn.

I really love this little thing. I recently got a hand crank yarn winder because it is easier on my hands and faster than winding yarn balls by hand, but I didn't like the way center pull cakes start to flop. This is the perfect tool for pulling yarn from the outside of the cake. As long as you just let the yarn feed while you work instead of pulling lengths out, I haven't had too many problems with yarn getting caught and wrapped up around the bottom. When I do, I just pop the top piece off and pull the wrapped yarn off the axel. Keep in mind, I am a kind of slow knitter/crocheter, so speedy folks may experience more issues. This thing is pretty light, so I tend to keep one of those grippy things for opening stubborn jars underneath it to keep it from sliding.

Handy little sucker! Family project at Thanksgiving was to dye some white sock blanks with unsweetened Kool Aid which was fun. Then had to use ball winder to make "cakes". All went well until I somehow made a world champion yarn barf of over 1/2 of a skein when knitting directly from the ball. After 3 days of profanity and patience I wound a new ball and centered it on this spinner and have completed an entire pair of socks without a snag or unkind word. I have mine centered in a yarn bowl which keeps it stable otherwise it would probably move around or fall over if freestanding when pulled on. The center is purposely slightly rough so the yarn turns rather than slipping or tightening. Some one else did not like that, but it has a definite purpose.

While with shipping I only paid about $25 for 2 of these, they are basically unusable. They ship from India and took over a month to arrive. Once they did I unpacked them and found one was broken (the base separated from the dowel, and the other, the peg the top spins on was so crooked that it's useless. The finish is very rough and even if I try and correct these, there is no way they will spin smoothly without some serious modification / sanding. Would not recommend. Spend the extra money and get the Laborwood brand or similar.