Wool Winders

Wool winders are essential fibre craft tools for knitters, crocheters, spinners, weavers and hand-dyers. Many yarns are typically sold in skeins. Knitting or crocheting yarn directly from a skein is a recipe for disaster so prior to knitting a skein has to be wound into a ball or ‘cake’. This is what a wool winder does. They're a great alternative to hand-winding yarn, and contrary to popular belief, aren't terribly expensive. 

Rather than a spherical hand wound ball of yarn, the yarn ‘cake’ created by a wool winder doesn’t move around and the yarn can be knitted or crocheted from the centre of the cake (‘centre-pull’) preventing it from getting tangled as it might if you knitted directly from a hand wound ball or skein.

Skein winders (or swift) are used to wind the yarn into skeins or, when used in combination with a wool winder, to hold the skein while it is unwound into a ball or cake. An essential bit of kit for anyone setting, washing or hand-dyeing yarn.

Make your life easy with our selection of wool and skein winders.

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Sick of tangled yarns and untidy stash? 

Use a wool winder and skein winder to make your fibre crafting a breeze, and take your yarn stash to a whole new level of organised!

  • Use a wool winder to quickly and effortlessly wind knitting and crochet yarn into a neat and tidy ball. 
  • Use a skein winder to create skeins of yarn for easy setting, washing or hand-dyeing.
  • Use a wool winder with a skein winder to effortlessly un-skein yarns and wind into a ball for fast, tangle free knitting and crochet.