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Watch Me Make Perfect Yarn Cakes In Minutes!
May 27, 2025
See how easily you can go from tangled yarn to beautifully wound yarn cake with this yarn winder! This video reviews a yarn winder and demonstrates how to use a yarn ball winder to quickly get your yarn stash organization in order. This is a must-have for any yarn enthusiast.
Full Disclosure - I was gifted this Etcokei yarn winder
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i've just received one of these i'm
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going to show you everything you get in
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the box how to put it together really
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easy how to use it and what I thought of
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it plus how quickly I went from chaos
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with my yarn to
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joy this is what I received through the
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post it's a nice compact box it's been
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really well packaged um but don't worry
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there isn't loads and loads of assembly
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once you get it out so the first thing
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you'll come across is your manual it's
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really small because you actually don't
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need to know very much it's very
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straightforward but there is a QR code
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so you can scan that and get more
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information so the first thing out is
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going to be the screwdriver and three
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little screws there's the power lead
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which you'll notice is USB so you do
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need USB power supply and there's the uh
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plastic attachment that your yarn cake
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is going to be formed on
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and the tensioner so the next thing I'm
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going to get out is the tensioner that
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you feed your yarn through to make sure
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you get a beautiful yarn
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cake and there we go that's
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that and the actual yarn
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winder and that's everything so the yarn
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winder is quite compact um it's not
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going to take up loads of space in your
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home and you can see there on the bottom
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is the bit that attaches it to your
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table or your desk
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so let's do that assembly and get
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started so the first thing I'm going to
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do is attach the tensioner so if you
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look at the yarn winder on one end
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you've got your power supply where it
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plugs in and the other end is a little
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slot and you just feed it in okay so I'm
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going to show you again so you can see
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the top you feed it in and you can see
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that little hole you can see it's
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arrived pop your screw in use the little
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screwdriver provided and secure it in
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place now if you remember there were
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three little screws in that bag you only
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need one of them the others are spares
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just in case you take this apart and
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lose them you will notice how long it's
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taking me this screw goes in a long way
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it isn't going to drop out it's very
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secure as is your
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winder so the others are just in case
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you take it apart and lose
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one yeah just keep winding there we go
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now we just need to attach the plastic
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bit on the top which just pushes in and
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turns slightly clockwise and you're
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ready to go you just use the wing nut to
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fasten it to your table or your desk and
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then let's put your yarn through so you
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feed it through the hole at the bottom
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pop it behind that spring hook it over
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the
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top through underneath the other spring
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and then literally just wind it round a
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couple of times and then secure it in
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those little grooves at the top and
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you're ready to go so obviously I've
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connected it to the power supply i'm
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just going to turn the little knob and
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as you turn the knob further the device
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speeds up it's that simple so you can
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turn it a little way and just get
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started
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slowly or like me you can turn it up to
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the max and just get your yarn cake made
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now I've sped the film up here i'm sure
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you realized so we're not sitting here
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all day watching it but I did want to
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show you the whole wind um and it
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actually doesn't take long anyway so as
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I promised you at the end I'll show you
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how much I did and how long it took me i
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have loved this device and I have spent
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a whole afternoon doing loads of yarn
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i've got to be honest you saw how easy
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it is to thread up how easy it is to
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operate if by chance there's a knot and
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it stops it can't feed it through the
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device will just stop and then you just
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turn the knob off and sort it out and
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boy is it
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satisfying so if you're enjoying this
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and you're finding it helpful to see
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whether you want one please give it a
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thumbs up below so it spreads to more
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people
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and I hope you're enjoying seeing that
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cake forming is a really nice even
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tension i've never had a winder i've
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just had to use my husband's arms which
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obviously he's really pleased I've got
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this and uh so I'm not comparing it to
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lots of others but I will say a whole
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afternoon using it no problem it just
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kept going and doing one after another
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after another and it used lots of
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different yarns from very fine up to a
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chunky i haven't used a massive yarn in
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there but I have gone very fine to
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chunky and they've worked beautifully
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includ including one actually with
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little bobbles in it now you can see
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I've got a little bit of um a rave mess
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there so I'll just unravel it you'll
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notice I just turn the device off so it
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didn't keep trying to pull it through
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and then I'll turn it on slowly cuz
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there's only a little bit of yarn left
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and it'll just finish off now I choose
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to just tuck that under an edge there
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and then you just pull it off the
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device and you've got your yarn cake
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ready to
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go you can see how compact that is now
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I've been using mine and absolutely love
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them so it's very satisfying so you can
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see I'd got this pile of yarn all
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different bits some small some big some
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a bit more naughty than others and I
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just wound them to form these beautiful
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cakes and it took me a whole 15 minutes
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that's all the setting it up that's
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putting them through getting them off
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and all made so you can see it's super
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quick and I do recommend this yarn
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winder so I hope this has helped you
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