The Tahki Cotton Classic yarn I’m working with right now gets really twisty really fast. To fix it I have to spin the cake a bunch of times every couple rows. It’s lovely yarn but this particular feature is just a bit irritating. So, in my new “genius too late” series I created this out of a plastic bottle bottom, some nylon cord, a hinged key ring and a brass fishing swivel. I can give it a quick spin without disrupting the structure of the cake. I plan to make one of these in three sizes to accommodate the different sized cakes and skeins I use.
The genius too late bit is . . . I thought of it halfway through a cake which necessitated cutting the plastic vessel to get the yarn to run through to the bottom which gives the yarn an opportunity to get stuck in the slice. Duh. I’ll remake it without the slice.
