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How To Wind A Yarn Ball By Hand Without Any Tools!
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Feb 21, 2024
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Hey everyone, in this tutorial I'm going to show you how to wind a center pull ball
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and the great thing about this technique is no tools are required
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All you need are your own two hands. So if you're like me, you probably have a lot of partially used balls of yarn that are messy
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floppy, and more than likely tangled. I'm going to show you how simple it is to wind these balls
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These are not regular wound balls that roll around the floor collecting dust and getting
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chased by the cat. These balls will pull from the center and will stay in place as you use them
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Sometimes these are called yarn cakes, but depending on how you wind them
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they can be formed in a variety of sizes. With a little practice, you'll find yourself
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creating a consistent and neatly wound center pull ball with all of your loose yarn
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So gather up all your messy heaps of yarn and let's get rolling
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So we have this nice little mess of a ball here, and we always want to have it nice
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loose, so make sure you have some of it pulled out. And we're going to get started here. We're
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going to take our end and lie it across our yarn, and we want enough, we want a couple inches here
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and enough that we don't get it lost in into the ball as we're winding it
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So then we're going to take our finger and our thumb and hold them together
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and use the other fingers to just hold that yarn in place down below
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where it's not going to get mixed in with the ball. And then placing those two together
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we're going to wrap our yarn, and I like to go clockwise, I guess you'd say. Whichever direction
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you feel more comfortable wrapping, that's the one to go with. Just be consistent and always wrap that
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way. So we're going to wrap, and we're going to wrap quite a few times to create our base
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So maybe 20 times at least, if not 30. It doesn't hurt to have a little bit thicker of a base
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so just keep wrapping. It doesn't matter that the yarn lies beside each other or not
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just wrap a nice little base to get you going. So that's probably good, that's enough. And then
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I'm going to slip my index finger out, but leave it on my thumb. So now it's nice and loose on my
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thumb, which was the point of having your finger in there, because you want it to be loose on here as you wind to get started. So now you're going to take your yarn
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continuing to wrap in the same direction. I'm going to wrap at a 45 degree angle to what's
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already on there. And then bring it around the back, and don't pull tight. You don't
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want this to bunch up, you just want to lay it across there to get it started
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So do about five of those right in a row, just to get that started. And see it's pulling up a
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little bit there, but that's okay because this was nice and loose. And now we're going to start to
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turn this, and we use this finger to kind of turn it. It's loose enough, and you only need to turn
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it like a fraction of an inch as you wind. So keeping this loose, and the way to get it started
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is nicely if you just lie it right beside what you just did, that keeps the 45 degree angle
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and it keeps you turning it a fraction of an inch. So it kind of turns on its own as you pull it
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around. This finger keeps it from falling off your thumb. And again, you've got the end held down
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here to keep it out of the way. If you find your yarn slipping up the side, just go underneath a
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little bit more. And you're trying to create the initial wind of this ball. So see how it's all
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lying beside each other here at a 45 degree angle. The underneath part is going to be loose
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and we're going to eventually cover that up. And you just want to slowly turn the ball
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as you wind. It kind of turns itself as you wind because it's loose on your thumb
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So just keep on going, and you're starting to see the look of a ball as if you would be winding it
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with one of those yarn winders. So exact same concept, except your thumb is acting as the center
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as the center pole, and your hand is the arm that winds. So exact same concept. So the slower you go
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the more exact your ball will be. But as we get going, and this is established, we can speed it
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up a little bit. So see how you already have this beautiful 45 degree angle working all the way
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around this ball. It should still be loose on your thumb, and you've got the end. Now the end is going
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to be working its way around your thumb as the ball twists. That's okay. Just don't wind it into
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the ball. That's why we have a nice long end here. Because as the ball gets bigger, and it will with
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the amount of yarn I have here, that end will start to disappear into the ball. And you don't really
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want it to completely disappear because you want to be able to find it, but at least this is a
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center pole, and you'll be able to, you'll know that it's in there. You'll know it's in the center part
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You won't be looking all over for it. So continue, see how it's slowly twisting around my thumb
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as I twist the yarn, keeping this end loose. If you find that you're having to tug on the yarn a
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lot, just make yourself a little nice loose pile. Make sure there's no knots in it. And that is part
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of the reason we do this, is because as your ball gets like this, it tends to want to knot, and
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frustrate you while you're trying to crochet. So you've already got something going on here
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There we go, just keeping this on my thumb. And if for any reason you get like sidetracked, and something happens, phone rings, kids yell
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you can slide this off your thumb, put it down, and then when you come back
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you very gently slide your thumb back in, keeping this end out
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and now you can continue on with your winding. And again, this is a very relaxing process, except when you run into these knots
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I just have a bit of a tangled mess here to get through, and it wants to knot, which is why I want this in a center pole ball
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So I'll often find in the evening, sometimes I'll grab my knotty yarn, and unknot it
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and center pole ball it, and then it's all nice and neat and tidy for the next time I want to use it
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And these balls, as they get larger, you may have to wind it again once you've used some of it
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because they will get loose again in the center, and turn into a mess. But for now
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it's going to be really handy to use. So this is, I love doing this with all my extra
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scrap yarn, and to have all these little center pole balls. Like I said, it's a really great meditative process when I'm not sure what I want to crochet next
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but I want to spend some time with my yarn. So I'm speeding this up a little bit, and you'll see it's not
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you know, they're not lying exactly, and that's okay, as long as you're in the ballpark with the 45 degree angle, and you're continuing to turn the ball
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you're still going to get the right effect. The ball will hold itself together
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So I'm going to speed this up, because this is a lot of yarn to get through, and I want you to get the process. I want you to see the progress as we go
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because really all we're doing is a 45 degree, and if the yarn slips to one side
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if it's not too bad, that's okay, it'll get caught up as we go around
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but if it falls right off, you can just take it back and do it again. You're not too far along
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there. And see, now I'm using two fingers to slowly slide the ball around my thumb
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because it is getting tighter, and what's happening is, as you twist the ball
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the yarn underneath is getting, is grabbing your thumb more, and that's okay. You're using these
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two fingers, the ball is more sturdy now, so you don't have to worry about it falling apart as
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much, and we just keep on going. And again, remember, you can take it off, there's your
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center pole right there, that's what you're aiming for, you can put it right back on your thumb
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the top isn't, there's, there is a hole there, but the top kind of fills itself in
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And we keep going, and see, these two fingers are keeping everything in place
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and they're keeping it turning, and if you feel your thumb snagging, which I am right now
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there we go, it's getting a little tight on my thumb, so I just pull my thumb out a little more
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It doesn't have to be right into the center of the ball, it just has to be enough for it to pivot on
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There we go, and see how my end is still hanging out here? And it's not as neat and tidy as it was at the very beginning, and that's okay
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So, and every ball will kind of shape in its own way, like some of them will be
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thicker, and you can shape it a little, and some will be flatter, some may even look like they're
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more like a normal round ball, but as long as the center pole is there, then that's all that matters
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The more you do it, the more consistent you get with your shapes. So I'll just speed this up, and we'll see the progress of this
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and I'll stop again when we've got a lot more yarn going. So we'll take a quick break there, and we'll see how it's still coming out the center
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it's creating a nice ball, you can pull it off and kind of give it a nice shaping
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You know, you want it to be a bit of a cake, as they call it, a yarn cake, and you want everything
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to line up, and you can see it's a little more rounded on the bottom side, it's just the way that
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I wrap, but that's okay, your wrapping style will be unique to you, and you will notice that as you
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wrap, if you don't keep that 45 degree angle, it might start wrapping around your thumb like that
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and that might disappear, like this hole might disappear, so you want to be careful not to let
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that slide in too much. They'll be flat if you do less of a 45 degree angle, but if you're
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over the 45 degree angle, you'll probably end up with more of a ball, so if you want some height to it
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you have to make sure that you're just going on that 45 degree angle, and it will keep building
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your ball up and up and up. So let's do some more, I think we're over halfway done this ball
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now again this is a big ball that I chose, it's just one of those large balls that fell apart
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pretty quick, so I thought well let's just turn it into a nice center pole. The other thing you'll
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want to use this for is if you buy skeins, because you pretty much have to wrap skeins, because they
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don't come very, you know, in a way that's easy to use, so this is a great technique for that as well
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those nice beautiful colors of wool that are hand dyed often come in skeins, so this is a nice way
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to wind those as well. And here we have come to the end, so when you hit the end of your yarn and you have your nice kite
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just tuck it under a couple of the strands that you just did, just to hold it in place
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and there is your nice little yarn cake center pole ball, and there's my center pole, so I'm ready
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to use this ball, and I won't have to worry, it's nice and tidy, it's compact, it's going to fit very
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nicely in my yarn shelf. You can see here the wrapping, the bottom edge is much more square
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than the top, that's just the way, that's actually the bottom is where it pulls out, so it's really
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the bottom is rounded and the top is square, and that's just the way that I wind. I tend to watch
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this edge but don't watch the bottom edge, and that's okay, it works and that's what matters
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it's cute, it's compact, and it does the trick, and that is how you make a center pole ball
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Thanks for joining me in this tutorial, I hope you have fun making lots of hand-wound
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yarn balls, we'll see you next time
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