Stanwood Needlecraft Large Metal Yarn/Fiber/Wool/String Ball Winder - 10 oz

I love this Stanwood yarn winder! It easily made a 10 ounce cake. The large cake on the left is 10 oz. and neat and tidy. The one on the right is as much as I could wind on my old small winder and it’s a mess. Goodbye small winder.

I love this winder! It lives up to all the positive reviews. Received it this mornining and have been happily winding ever since! My husband thinks I love it more than him and he might be right. Makes quick work out of winding my yarn stash into something manageable!

For the last 4 years I’ve been using a cheap plastic yarn winder that creaked, cracked, and moaned. It finally broke and I received many recommendations for the Stanwood. I am so happy with this purchase, it creates beautiful cakes of yarn with very little effort. It is beautifully made and I have used to it wind 420 yd skeins of fingering weight all the way to 110yds of bulky weight. It was a little bit of an adjustment to get started, but the ease at it which it winds makes it simple to use. The gears are exposed, so if you are a bit overzealous winding at the end of the skein, the tail can get tangled, but you just reverse the handle and it comes out. I would highly recommend and would buy it again.

I have used other popular winders but this one is outstanding. It works really well and it holds all of my bulky and fingering yarn. I do not have to worry about the yard coming off of the top because the Yarn is too bulky.

I have a Royal ball winder but it cant handle large skeins of yarn. I decided to take a chance on this ball winder because its affordable (even more so because I got it via a Warehouse Deal), and looks sturdy & easy to use. I read some of the reviews and was on the lookout for problems with the yarn guide arm and uneven winding. The day it arrived, I pulled it out of the package and attached the yarn guide arm without reading the directions - it seemed intuitive enough, but I had it wrong. Problem corrected, I attached the winder to my usual coffee table, which has a 1.75 lip and discovered that the arm of the tightener is too long for it to spin freely on this table. I pulled the winder out from the table and tightened it most of the way, sliding it back in for final tightening. Next time, Ill use it on another table/counter with a deeper lip. I set up my swift on the other side of the table directly across from the winder, got the yarn ready and threaded through, and began winding. Winding wasnt as smooth as it is with my Royal; at a certain point in the circumference of the handle turn, I slowed down/the handle slowed down - I think this has something to do with how directly the handle turns the gears, momentum, energy, and some other physics stuff that I ignored in high school. With practice, Im sure Ill get better and anyway, this not-so-smooth cranking wasnt a show stopper. As I wound faster, the yarn guide arm began to bounce up and down on the table, making an annoying noise. I stuffed a piece of folded paper under it and carried on; next time, Ill probably pad it with a dish towel or yarn swatch or something a bit thicker. Im pretty happy with my first ball; it was a little lopsided, but so far its as good/better than balls Ive wound on the Royal. I wound another skein of the same yarn on my the Royal and had issues because the skein was so big (630 yards of sport weight) but the Stanwood handled it easily, filling up about a third of the winder capacity, if that.

I am loving this winder. I am so glad (on the advice of another reviewer) that I spent the extra money on this winder. It is very heavy duty and it works flawlessly. It can make larger balls than some of the cheaper models. I went through all my half used skeins of yarn and balled them. I ball all the skeins I buy that typically center pull in clumps. They store so neatly. The best part is how beautifully they work as Im using them. No longer fighting with a tangled mess. When I am done with a project, I will re-ball the yarn so I have a nice tight ball for next time. Its fun to use and takes about 1 min to ball a 7 oz skein of yarn.

I resisted and I bought less expensive winders, that quickly became trash bag weights. This thing is amazing! It is sturdy, it can knock out a 10oz skein and it produces a nicely wound cake.

this thing is awesome, strong, sturdy, smooth, quite and well worth every penny!! Highly recommend. Same one my local yarn store uses

Works very well.

This is the best yarn winder I have ever used. I definitely recommend it, and although more expensive then the other ones, it is definitely worth it. Very sturdy, easy to put together, and easy to use. The cakes look very neat and tidy after you learn it.