Butternut Woolens

If you want to start a cottage handpainted yarn business, two skeinwinders are really useful for giving the yarn that painted on with Q-tips look, but it's OK just to buy one, too, for more routine skein handling.

The 4-in-1 can be used as a swift for holding skeins of yarn that you are winding off into smaller cakes, as a niddy noddy for winding plied yarn right off the bobbin, as a blocker for drying washed yarns and as a counter for measuring yardages. The arms hold 500g/1lb hanks with ease, even the fluffy brushed mohair that comes from the mill looking like a medium-sized, freshly washed and fluffed dog.

These 4-in-1's sit on a base on the floor and table, I've wound off a lot of skeins and they have never chattered, moved, or fallen over, they work beautifully as described by Fricke on their website. On the website these skeinwinders are called the Heavy Duty 4-in-1. I've owned them about 4 years.

One skeinwinder is made of oak ($135) and the other is made of a lighter wood, perhaps ash(?) and is $100. I think they retail for about $235.

Pick up only, cash or PayPal, email me at shelly at butternutwoolens dot com.

The drum carder is sold to Amanda. Her mom is giving her the drum carder for a graduation present for finishing her PhD. Way to go, Amanda! Check out her Japanese crochet granny hex afghan, it's on my to do list.