Yarn Put Ups: Different Ways Yarn Is Wound
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If you’re new to working with yarn, you’ll notice that there are different ways that the yarn is wound. Yarn comes wound in a variety of ways. In this video, Mister Domestic explains the terminology for yarn put ups. There are four ways yarn is commonly available: skein, ball, hank, and cake. Mister Domestic shows each of these yarn put ups and describes how they can be used when crocheting.
He shows a skein of yarn, which has an oval shape. It’s how many craft store and mass-produced yarns are presented. The yarn can be worked from the outside or the inside, although it’s sometimes difficult to find the center of the yarn on the inside of the skein.
A ball of yarn is usually smaller than a skein, typically weighing 50-grams or less. Like the skein, the yarn can be worked from the outside or the inside of the ball. Mister Domestic mentions that it’s typically easier to work from the center or inside of ball than it is with a skein of yarn.
The hank is a large loop of yarn that is twisted together. This yarn needs to be wound before crocheting. The yarn can be wound by hand or can be wound with a ball winder and yarn swift. The final put up is a cake of yarn. Many indie-dyed gradient yarns come in a cake, so you can easily see the color changes. Also, when winding yarn on a ball winder, the result is a yarn cake. This can also be crocheted from the outside or from the center.
Hey, crochet friends, it is Matthew of Mister Domestic, to teach you all about the different way is that yarn is put up. I know if you're new to yarn play or yarn crafting, you probably see different ways that yarn comes when you go to the store and you don't understand it, and you hear terms like cake, and you're like hungry for cake. But I'm here to settle the score on the four basic types of yarn put ups available. There is the cake, not a cake that you eat. There's the skein, there's the hank, and there's the ball. And I'll go through each individually just to show you what each one does. So this is a cake. I actually took a hank and turned it into a cake with my swifter and winder because it's really hard to be able to crochet using a hank. So this, I haven't seen a lot of cakes that you can purchase, but all of the the top tier yarns come in a hank. So if this is something you plan on doing, you can either get them to turn it into a cake at the store or you can buy yourself a winder and a swifter. So these two go hand in hand, essentially, this is the before, this is the after. And let me show you what happens like so, da, da, da, da, da, da, so it's like this. And then you would open it up, put it on your swifter and then wind this up into a cake, which is super fun. But it's not anything you need to worry about right now. Really it's just a really good way to store yarn before putting it in any of these so that it stays the original tension of the yarn. Then this is a skein. A skein basically looks like a stretched out circle that was stretched out. It's wrapped a little bit differently. And usually with skeins, you can either pull from the center, let me see if I can find it, pull from the center. If you wanted to use another one strand, then you could pull it from the outside too and use the two at a time. But I pull all of mine from the center with my cakes, see, the skeins, my hanks, and then this is a ball. Surprisingly, I was able to buy a ball. I haven't seen a lot of balls that you can purchase. Once again, generally, what happens for me is when a skein of yarn starts to look not so cute and it looks like it could potentially become a tangled mass then I'll take it and roll it up into a ball on my own. Just one tip when rolling or self-rolling is to remember not to pull on it beyond its natural attention. You want the ball to roll up naturally so that it doesn't stretch the thread, which is another benefit of why the hank is such a popular first entry into your crochet room. So these are the four basic ways that yarn comes, the cake, the skein, the hank, and the ball. And I'm really excited that I got to show all of you, and I can't wait to see the variety of yarn put ups in your own crafting and crochet room. On that note, keep it positive everyone, Mister Domestic out.
I wind all my yarn into cakes before I start my projects. I mostly crochet and use knitting looms because I've never been able to use both hand at the same time to knit with knitting needles.