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Hey there! I'm Rebecca Mezoff. I just wanted to show you today my new tapestry tool. Actually
I kind of think it is a toy, it is so much fun. This is the electric skein winder made
by Crazy Monkey Creations. It comes straight from Colorado and they make these themselves
there and they are beautiful. I have been winding my skeins on these for years. I cannot
tell you how much that lends itself to tendonitis, so I am super excited to get this new skein
winder. I buy most of my yarn in cones and I go through a lot of it so having a way to
wind three skeins at once is really cool. I am going to show you how it works. To start
with you put your yarn on a cone holder on the floor and wind them through these little
holders on the base of the skein winder. My winder will do three at once. After they are
wound through these little spirals, you just clip them to these clips on one of the arms
of the winder. At this point I give the skeins just a couple winds here by hand to get them
started. And then this is where the magic happens. Watch this. This little controller
runs by electricity. And it goes fast! And here is one of the coolest things. It has
a counter so I know how many revolutions I've got. Then when I get the number of wraps I
need on here which is determined either by magic or math, all you have to do is tie your
skeins off and get ready to weave (tie) the next one on.