Cable Needles

If you still have the old style plastic hair picks (or beg a couple from your hairdresser), they make good cable needles. You can push them into the yarn while holding the cable stitches and while you store the needles between making cables.

Center Wound Yarn Balls

Another way to make a center pull yarn ball: Start with medicine pill bottle, put end of yarn inside and snap the lid closed. Wind yarn around bottle keeping it below the bottle cap. When finished, remove bottle releasing the end of yarn and pull from center. The ball will stand and not roll when using.

Know Your Stash

For those of you detailed enough to upload your stash on Ravelry, you can save your listing to an Excel spreadsheet by clicking the small Excel icon on the right hand side (next to the Search button) of the stash section in your Ravelry notebook. It makes a nice, compact printout to know what you already own. An example is shown.

Buttonbands

To stabilize the button band of a cardigan, sew clear small buttons on the inside of the band behind the decorative buttons that are on the outside of your cardigan

Yarn Bobbins

To make yarn bobbins, cut 2”x4” pieces from plastic canvas. Then cut a notch in both the top and bottom of the piece. Wrap your yarn around the canvas using the notches as guides. You can secure the ends of the yarn through the holes in the plastic canvas.