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have you got yarn that's been hanging
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around in your stash for years and you
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never think you're going to use it well
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turn it into these super cute yarn cakes
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and give it a new lease of life now
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these yarn cakes are super easy to make
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all you need is some of your leftover
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Winder so I have this one from Amazon I
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don't even know what brand it is I will
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have to have a look back in my um
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history to find out what it is but it
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didn't cost very much money and it's
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pretty good for the price it works
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really well I've got some yarn here that
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I've had in my stash for years I used to
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before I designed crochet patterns I
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used to make baby blankets to sell on
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Etsy and eBay so I've got lots of double
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knit yarn that I probably will never use
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anymore it's all acrylic mostly
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stylecraft special double knit I've got
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some other brands I think in there as
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well um you can use any yarn you like
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just make sure you stick to the same
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yarn weight so with this yarn white that
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I've got this disc here it's best if you
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keep your yarn cakes to roughly this
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width once you start getting wider I did
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try to make wider ones and they were
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starting to get a little bit um messy
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around the edges you can buy some much
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winders that this P this plate here is a
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little bit wider and you can make bigger
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cakes I'm going to start with this red
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yarn here and you just
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around your little tension guide there
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on to your yarn Winder and you simply
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winding how much of each color you wind
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is entirely up to you it depends how you
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want your cakes to be you can have long
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color changes or short color changes but
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once you decid you want to change color
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color now I'm going to use a Russian
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join to join mine you can use the magic
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knot but just be aware you will have
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knots in your work once you start
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crocheting or knitting with it so if
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you're only going to be using for this
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for crochet then you could use the magic
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knot I don't recommend using the magic
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knot if you want to knit with the yarn
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or if you think the person you're giving
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the yarn to you might want to knit with
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it so I definitely recommend going with
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the Russian joint and it's really simple
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thread your yarn onto your dining
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needle and then you're just going to
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take your needle and go back through the
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yarn you can slightly untwist it this
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helps to just take the needle through
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yarn like so now I like to put a little
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here just at the end before I pull it
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through pull that tail in
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through and then I can use that little
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finger just to pull it until it just
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disappears into the yarn and then you've
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got a little Loop here where you can
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color I'm going to go for this uh I
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Aspen it is from Starcraft next right
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where's the end so you're just going to
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thread the new yarn onto your
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needle and you're just going to go
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through this Loop that you
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made and then you're going to do exactly
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the same on the on this yarn as you did
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previously just thread it
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through and then just pull it until the
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tail disappears and there you go
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whoops there you have a Russian join and
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then you just continue winding
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now once you think you have enough
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yarn I just like to tuck the end
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underneath some of these Loops inside
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there and then you want to just
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carefully take this off this will be
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your Center pull and then carefully lift
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off and then you end up with a really
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cute yarn cake now they might be not
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quite as neat and tidy as the ones you
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get in the shops but if you did want to
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give these its gifts you can add these
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labels I made these ones in um canva and
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just printed them out on my printer you
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could also use word to make labels in
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and just print them out so all I did was
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labels stick a little bit of
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glue and glue them now this only works
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with small Yar cakes this is the the
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landscape length of a piece of A4 paper
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but you could if you wanted to make
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bigger ones just just join two pieces of
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paper together if you enjoyed this
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