Only $49.95 or 3 easy payments of $19.95 + s/h. Just kidding... Go make your own...
Be the first in your knitting group to have the Yarn Caddy 3000™.
Features and Benefits:
- Unwinds your yarn with ease while keeping your yarn within reach. No more knots and twists! All your yarn is just a tug away!
- If you can poop, then you'll have an unlimited suppy of cores for your hanks and skeins.
- 'Butch-Up' your lace knitting projects; ideal for knitting dudes who want to keep it real.
- Easy to assemble, no tools necessary. So easy a caveman can do it!
- Portable. You can knit anywhere!
- Sturdy rubber 'feet' keep your caddy from sliding while you unwind the yarn.
- Interchangeable cores. Just slide another color right onto the patented wooden dowel.
- Several Yarn Caddy 3000™ will allow you to easily work a faire isle pattern.
- Will last a lifetime!
- When not in use, the clamps are a handy way to keep your kid's and spouse's lips shut!
Coming soon, the Yarn Caddy 4000™ with 36" dowel to hold multiple yarn tubes!
Here's how to make one...
What you'll need:
- A wooden dowel; probably at least 1/2" so the clamps have something to grip onto
- Toilet paper, paper towel or gift wrap cardboard core
- 2 Large handgrip style clamps
- yarn winder (local yarn shops usually have one if you don't already own one.)
- Glitter, paint, stickers, decals and notions optional
- Battery powered clip-on book light works great for nighttime knitting.
What to do:
- Use a ball winder to spin your yarn into a nice ball. Slide the ball from the winder onto a cardboard tube/core.
- Slide the cardboard tube onto the dowel and put the clamps on both ends of the dowel.
- Stand upright and start knitting!
French Phrase of the Day:
So easy a caveman can do it!
C'est facile! Même un homme des cavernnes peut le faire!
3 comments:
OK, here is my question. How do you easily get the ball from the winder to the tube? Mine always collapse.Can you somehow slip the tube onto the ballwinder, holding it temporarily with tape or something and wind directly on it?
Love it!
Suna,
A gift wrap tube is smaller than the yarn ball winder stem. If you wind the yarn you should be able to just hold the cardboard core against the stem and slip the ball upwards onto the core.
Painters tape (the blue kind) works great for larger cores, just a little tape at the bottom to the base of the winding spool. Painter's tape is also forgiving when pulling it out--unless you have really furry yarn.
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