Good because o need to buy one and trying to decide - I hear there is also one with an electronic pedal as well ? ( it’s purple don’t know the brand ) etoki maybe ? And Stan woods cost anywhere from $80 up to 100 I believe.
I Love the star brights from red heart first time ive seen them...closest i can find to them is the new bitty stripes and i think the color was crayon box ..dont hold me to that but i think thats what it was called i cant wait for them to get here...thank you Juan for opening your world to us all!!! sending love and prayers
I am loving these caking videos I can sit and watch til I fall asleep keep em coming Juan oh wait I just realized this isn’t the same winder 😮and different table go head Juan
Hari Om As a 59er, I have some fondness for older yarns - but totally love what is being done with alternatives to sheeps wool nowadays, including all the synthetics. And life is as simple as one makes it, Juan... YAM xx
So funny Juan. I’m watching you while working on a Wildflowers blanket! Had just ordered the Wildflower yarn and immediately started this. I agree. That first skein looks very much the same.
Love watching you wind the Vintage cakes. Those colors are amazing. I love them. ❤ I can't wait to see what your finished blanket will look like. 😍 Am planning on going to buy a Yarn Winder tomorrow. 😊
Hi @juantheyarnaddict. Well I was BORN in 1959! I started crocheting when I was about 10. That soft soft fuzzy pastel yarn, I can totally remember using. I crocheted off & on till now. Our youngest daughter passed away 8-25-20. Do depressed. Terrible. Then I came across a hook & yarn & thought I’d just fiddle. I found UA-cam & “ALL THE THINGS”. Fell in love with crocheting more than I ever did. Everyone noticed I changed for the better. It gave me something to think about, what I’m making, what I want to make, yarns to try, yarns I have to get. Etc. But I think your question about yarn is that us older people just get as excited as you young ones at new yarn. We have our favorites of course. My problem is that we live 2hrs from a Walmart, 4-5 hrs from a Joanne or Michaels, etc. So all my yarn is ordered online when I see a sale. (On disability). So watching your yarn reviews help so so much. I can just tell that I would or wouldn’t like the yarn from the review. So thank you for that. Totally enjoy your channel & of course your darling little mommy. Enjoy every minute you have with her. I hope you have a good day. I hope you see this. Have been down with health problems a few days, so just catching up with your videos. Oh 9 days behind. Guess I know what I’ll be watching the rest of the day. 🧶. ❤
I'm 62, born July 1961. I'm officially VINTAGE now ... I remember many of these yarns and colorways 😂 ... thanks for THAT, Juan 😅😅😅😊. I think our choices and materials are much better now, but because I crochet, knit, sew, and quilt, I am sad that it's so tricky to make beautiful things out of very inexpensive materials. Because THAT is the core history of fiber works. It was great being able to be $ poor and gift something amazing. Still possible, but much harder.
This was fun and soothing. I got quite a bit accomplished on a shawl I'm making for a neighbor. Thank you Juan. P. S. Mama is right, check out a vintage pattern. 😊
My mom, who passed away in 1994, was extremely talented in all the needle arts (sewing, embroidery, knitting, crocheting, quilting). As I recall, I think she used mostly medium worsted weight yarn, but I can’t remember if it was wool, cotton, acrylic, or all three. If she were still with us, I would wheel her around Joann (she would be almost 96!) and show her all the new yarns and fabrics. It would blow her mind!!
I’m crocheting with wool right now! So I really enjoy watching your videos while I’m crocheting! I say recipes too! Just do all the things and we will follow!
I like watching/ listening to you no matter what you're doing Juan❤ im working on a neon granny square blanket right now, I always have at least 6 wips at a time, usually more🙄
I think today's yarns are better than the vintage yarns. The vintage yarn colors are pretty, but I prefer the fibers we have today. I am only 4 years older than you 😊
Hi Juan! 👋 A friend of my Mom is decluttering, and that includes yarn. The lady is sharing the good stuff with others, and whatever is left will come to me. I told my Mom I don't care if it's little balls of scrap! I am so excited and hope some is older. 😊
I enjoy watching you cake with variegated yarn. I find it soothing and almost hypnotic how the colors change and lie beautifully next to each other. There's only a problem when you're busy crocheting, I forget to work on what I'm doing lol. I'm from 1961 and I learned knitting and crocheting from my mother at the age of 5-6, but I liked the yarns of the past better Many acrylic yarns here, at least in the Netherlands, feel very plastic-like and stiff, especially those from the discounters. I think the composition of the yarn has changed over the years
Yarns aren't necessarily better. They're just beautifully different. We have so many more choices. Though I seem to remember all yarns were center. Just for reference, I'm 84. I've been knitting and crocheting for a long time. My mom and grandmother both crocheted. I think I learned from them. I taught myself how to knit. I don't knit anymore, I grip the needles when . my arthritic hands hurt. So, I stick to crochet where I just hold and don't grip the hook. Crocheting makes me happy. I crochet newborn hats for my local hospital's nursery. They're a nice keepsake of They're stay. Over the last 2 years, I've made nearly a thousand. I love watching you cake up yarn. I got the purple winder and am looking forward to do the same. What's exciting is that all cakes are center pull. Thanks for chatting with us, I love all the things. ❤
There is more of a variety of yarns today than there was in the late 60’s and early 70’s when I first learned to crochet. There wasn’t much of a color choice, but we didn’t know any better. I don’t think people hoarded yarn as much back then. We got what we needed and finished the project before we bought more. I didn’t know any yarn collectors back then. I definitely started collecting fabric before I accumulated tons of yarn too. The quality of yarn I believe is better now.
Hi Juan, again thanks for keeping me company while working on my WIP. Making a meshy top for my 13 year old great niece, she is sending me pictures of clothing she would like me to make for her. I will need a month of Sundays to complete her wardrobe.
I was born the same year as you but in June 27th and I remember when red heart yarn was only 99 cents and my favorite is the rainbow yarn I have been trying to find red heart tropical fruit, bikini, pinata, and starlight. I also love the Mexicana and all of the rainbows I am going to be starting a new baby afghan for a friend's baby. But the first 4 colors I can't find no one has them. If you find some please let me know. Great videos.
Here’s some yarn history: Orlon - made by DuPont -was the first commercially successful acrylic yarn, and it wasn’t widely available until the 1950s. So in reference to your question about whether you would like yarns in the 1940s … likely they wouldn’t have been made out of acrylic, because that wasn’t available then, but would have been cotton or wool instead. And with WWII shortages, probably not much of that was available to average consumers. So anyway… your gorgeous vintage variegated yarns probably date from the 1960s forward. And they really are beautiful! Such a lovely window on the past. Thanks for sharing them with us! ❤
I started crocheting in the 70s. The main yarn I remember was Sayelle and Wintuck . What can I say I love it all. I liked the prices better then but remember we made a lot less money too. Then again we didn't need it.
In the 70s I was taught to knit with Phentex yarn which was so stiff & scratchy but needed to make a scarf in order to achieve my "knitting badge" when I was a Brownie in Girl Guides. That yarn turned me off completely until I was 15 & my 90 year young Grandmother taught me to crochet with much nicer yarn, but cant remember what brand. From that experience today's yarn is evolving better & better. Which creates yarn obsessions with us all 😂
Todays yarns are better and softer than those of the 60's and 70's. I wore knitted and crochet items in the 60's in 1966 I learned to crochet and knit from my grandmother. The wool was scratchy and the yarn was plastic scratchy and hard in texture. I was knitting socks for my uncles who were in the military 🪖 in Vietnam. I knitted hats to match their helmet and uniform colors. I had a bad alergic reaction to wool in 1974 so for a long time I did not use wool. It is the Lanolin of the yarn. So for me I love today's yarns.
I'm commenting as I'm watching. The first cake is so beautiful! I can confirm that applying tension makes a more compact cake. The first one I ever made was a fluffy little nugget with very little yardage. I gave the second one a little pinch and got easily twice as much on there.
I love watching you making cakes while I crochet your C2C blanket! It's fine to talk about recipes instead of patterns, as long as the algorithm doesn't get confused and think you're talking about baking instead of crafting! 😂
Hi Juan..sitting here watching you wind yarn. I remember watching Crystal (BOD) cake up yarn. She had some sort of attachment that would attach to the winder and then they used a drill to wind it. It was pretty entertaining and funny 😆🧶
I enjoy the chat and all the things😊. I became a cake winder convert when I bought a Knitter's Pride winder, looks like your Knit Picks one. I use to help my Gran wind her scraps of yarn into balls. At the time I had no problem with that. But given a choice between one or the other, I would pick the winder every time, now. A cake winder is very hypnotic. ASMR for the mind😅. Would my Gran have liked the yarns we have now? Yes, except for one thing. The price now! She would have protested the high prices by not buying yarn hardly ever. She was a "deal and a steal" person too. If it cost a lot she didn't want it. Have you been given any Caron Dazzle-Aire? It was an acrylic that was soft but fuzzy and didn't shed. It even had a little sheen to it. I used that back in the 1990s, so did my Gran. The colors were nice and the price was right. Makes me miss K-mart. The vintage combo yarns project sounds fun, whatever design you pick. I love pulling out older yarns and making something special withthem. Just keep itfun for you. Thanks for sharing.🤗😀😎
Hi Juan I have a lot of vintage yarn. It definitely stands the test of time. My favorite is baby vintage yarn sayvelle acrylic with the rayon pearlescent strand wrapped around it. I love when you babble about all the things. 🤣I like the little thing you have with the pink yarn 🙏🏽💜🫂
I have horrible allergies and sinus problems. Have had bronchitis from them more times then I care to admit. A neighbor gifted me a wreck air purifier with heppa filter and a UV light. The wild flowers is a red heart yarn as well.
I love my Stanwood yarn cake maker! Those vintage yarns you are caking up are the yarns I worked with back when I first started crocheting in my teens. So, I guess I'm vintage!😅
I thought the Stenwood was actually a wooden ball winder 😂 I have a wooden one and it’s a million times better than the Knit Picks winder. Yes to vintage mystery yarn boxes!
Hi juan, I hope you don't mind me telling you this but your grandma and aunt would say, do what you love juan!. Just be yourself!. Do not change for anyone!. They are proud of you! And love you!. They probably would like the yarn they are used too!. Although try today's. I was shouting candy cane at my screen as you was questioning the colour. Then you said it! Lol!. I have some similar. And my hubby would tell you how organised I am with my yarn too!. Like you!. I like to ball my yarn up also. Lol!. I love variegated!. It's colourful & exciting!. I take 3 balls of a bold colour and wind them together to make brand new colourways, my favourite to knit or crochet with is dk. My hubby likes the chunky. His hands are bigger then mine! Lol!. Your mum is lovely!, mandy uk 🇬🇧 xx😊
Something about you saying a skein was “abandoned” made me sad for all the forgotten yarns out there 😂😂. I love everything about that star brites colorway! ♥️
My earliest memory of yarn is “ Phentex” from the 60’s. My grandma knit 100’s of pairs of slippers with it. It’s made of 100% Olefin fiber, has no stretch and doesn’t shrink. I’ve never seen it sold in any stores but apparently Yarnspirations still sells it. There are fewer and fewer brick and mortar stores that sell yarn which is sad but unlike my Grandma, I have the internet and can buy any kind of fiber from anywhere in the world.
In the crochet books, about 25-30 years ago , a book with different Granny Square. There is a beautiful triangle granny square, that was so unusual and awesome worked up. The only /hing I changed was how it showed to sew together. I crochet it together so it would be stronger and put it together with black(there wasn't charcoal, then). It had a stained glassook. Anyway I was just going to say that would be very different and unusual.
You are so much fun! I feel like you’d be a great friend to sip coffee, work on a WIP, and spill some tea with. Because we drink coffee and spill tea, not the other way around 🤣
Both of my Grandmas would be in their 130's. In their day I think it was wool and cotton. My one Grandma knitted and crocheted. She knitted me ski wool socks and she knitted Norwegian sweaters. She crocheted cotton thread table clothes, bed spreads and doilies. My other Grandma knitted and crocheted everything from doilies to wool helmet liners during WWII to mohair barbie doll fur coats and stoles and sold them for a lot money in the 60's. About the caking - I am a little OCD and making cakes and bagging them up makes me feel good because they are all neat and tidy. And it is fun. Hugs to you and Momma Wilma - See you tomorrow. 💜💙
In the late 70s I worked at the family owned dimestore in our little town that converted to a Ben Franklin the summer I worked there. I was in charge of ordering the yarn. We carried Red Heart and Aunt Lydia's rug yarn. We also had the finer cotton for tatting and doilies. Im thinking the Red Heart was around 50 cents a skein and the Aunt Lydias was around 35 cents. I was watching a vlog where they were thrifting from the Goodwill Bins and they pulled out an afghan that had variegated yarn from that era! I think there are so many more brands, fiber content and color choices now, not to mention the cost now! Makes my heart happy to see old afghans saved and refreshed.
P. S. I just got to the part where you spoke od being born 20 years earlier! I was born in '58 and will be 66 in July. I still think I am 18 though my body says something else! I was more of a sewer back then as I made most of my own clothes.
I have used almost as much vintage Yarn as new Yarn. The older yarn seems to weather well and the out sides become crusty to protect the insides. I just love Yarn and i have appreciated every skein 🧶💛🧶
I am 46 and can remember going with my grandmother to Kmart to get her yarn for the latest blanket she was making. From what I can remember she would always buy just basic white or off white. I do not remember many variegated and such. I feel like some yarn these days, depending on what you buy, can be over rated and over priced. I tend to stay with my value yarns like Red Heart, Mainstays, Big Twist, Premier Basic, and so on. I would love to know though what my grandmother crocheted with. Again, many thanks for these and all of your videos!
Good evening, Juan! I had carpal tunnel surgery on my right hand and am unable to crochet. Therefore, I am getting my crochet time through you! Thank you for all you do and all the things!!!
I am more vintage than you and I am not into variegated yarns and I think it goes back to my mother. I cannot remember her ever using it, just plain colors. I know my mom was in love with Red Heart acrylic. I surmise that she probably did not like the care and strength of wool. I don't think there were blends in her day. The only time I did variegated yarn was when I made all my pupils scarves for Christmas gifts. I thought the children would love the colors. I use more adventurous yarns, color wise and content wise now under UA-cam influence!!!.....Yes your mom is right. Vintage with vintage. Didn't you ever know that mother knows best!!! By the way, my ball winder is silent and I love it. I have Cinnamon Stitches to thank for it. She went over things you must have for fiber work. She was spot on for the ball winder and I don't need to clamp it down. You can if you want to. I am making a Quick Silver beanie as I listen to you babble on about all the things!!! ♥️🧶😁🧶♥️
Juan, my boyfriend laughs at me because I’ll sometimes “talk” to you, such as saying “oh I have that vintage yarn too!”. Please consider vintage mystery boxes to sell.
Juan, Clark and Coats yarn was like sandpaper but for ten cents a small skein and thats all the money you had in the 60’s you learned to live with it! 🤭 (aka Kathy)
WOW the way that the star brights skein caked up was super cool! Now I'm wondering if it's possible to do planned pooling with it 👀 If only we could all get our hands on those beautiful vintage yarns! I'm still waiting to see you cake up kaleidoscope, it looks so cool! As for the question of what we think of the vintage yarns, I'm 23 years old and only started crocheting just under a year ago. I think that the actual texture of acrylic yarns has improved over time in my opinion, but I WISH we had the beautiful, inexpensive variegateds now that existed previously. I honestly just haven't been that inspired by a lot of the variegated colorschemes available currently, but who knows, I might just not be looking in the right places! Then again, even if I did have all of the amazing colors you've come across, I don't even know what I would actually make with them
Mezmerized while watching you cake yarn - I love it, it's so relaxing. I love the colors of vintage yarns. I'm wondering after hearing you talk about all the vintage yarns when they actually started making varigated yarn. The only thing I ever remember my grandmother using were solids or thread like yarn for doilies. I need to research that - now you have me intrigued.
Friends!!! I forgot to go back and talk about my favorite knit picks ball winder!! Tomorrow I promise!
Good because o need to buy one and trying to decide - I hear there is also one with an electronic pedal as well ? ( it’s purple don’t know the brand ) etoki maybe ? And Stan woods cost anywhere from $80 up to 100 I believe.
Juan I have been caking up my yarn all day 😊
Certainly not a problem. We know that Knit Picks is the best. ;)
I love yarn caking! Watching you, or doing it myself, it's relaxing and yarn cakes are beautiful and more fun than skeins. I love it! 💕💕💕
The Stanwood is my new one as well and I love the size and ease to you it 😊
Fun like always ❤
I love the cake videos so much fun
Love the pink for a girl cardigan love it
I Love the star brights from red heart first time ive seen them...closest i can find to them is the new bitty stripes and i think the color was crayon box ..dont hold me to that but i think thats what it was called i cant wait for them to get here...thank you Juan for opening your world to us all!!! sending love and prayers
So many beautiful colors!!!!
I was born in 1947. The older yarns is what I worked with. I liked the colors better then than now.
There is just something amazing about caking yarns. It's like the colors pop more in a cake. This was a lot of fun to watch. 🥰
Juan, I'm 62 and I can tell you I personally love the "vintage" yarns. Especially the colorful ones. Yours are beautiful made into cakes.
Me too. What Month were you born. I was October around Halloween time (19th). I love those other yarns too.
I am loving these caking videos I can sit and watch til I fall asleep keep em coming Juan oh wait I just realized this isn’t the same winder 😮and different table go head Juan
Hari Om
As a 59er, I have some fondness for older yarns - but totally love what is being done with alternatives to sheeps wool nowadays, including all the synthetics. And life is as simple as one makes it, Juan... YAM xx
So funny Juan. I’m watching you while working on a Wildflowers blanket! Had just ordered the Wildflower yarn and immediately started this. I agree. That first skein looks very much the same.
Gotta get one of those ball winders...I prefer to work with my yarn caked too. Love ya...hugs to Wilma😊.
Love watching you wind the Vintage cakes. Those colors are amazing. I love them. ❤ I can't wait to see what your finished blanket will look like. 😍
Am planning on going to buy a Yarn Winder tomorrow. 😊
Hi @juantheyarnaddict. Well I was BORN in 1959! I started crocheting when I was about 10. That soft soft fuzzy pastel yarn, I can totally remember using. I crocheted off & on till now. Our youngest daughter passed away 8-25-20. Do depressed. Terrible. Then I came across a hook & yarn & thought I’d just fiddle. I found UA-cam & “ALL THE THINGS”. Fell in love with crocheting more than I ever did. Everyone noticed I changed for the better. It gave me something to think about, what I’m making, what I want to make, yarns to try, yarns I have to get. Etc. But I think your question about yarn is that us older people just get as excited as you young ones at new yarn. We have our favorites of course. My problem is that we live 2hrs from a Walmart, 4-5 hrs from a Joanne or Michaels, etc. So all my yarn is ordered online when I see a sale. (On disability). So watching your yarn reviews help so so much. I can just tell that I would or wouldn’t like the yarn from the review. So thank you for that. Totally enjoy your channel & of course your darling little mommy. Enjoy every minute you have with her. I hope you have a good day. I hope you see this. Have been down with health problems a few days, so just catching up with your videos. Oh 9 days behind. Guess I know what I’ll be watching the rest of the day. 🧶. ❤
I'm 62, born July 1961. I'm officially VINTAGE now ... I remember many of these yarns and colorways 😂 ... thanks for THAT, Juan 😅😅😅😊. I think our choices and materials are much better now, but because I crochet, knit, sew, and quilt, I am sad that it's so tricky to make beautiful things out of very inexpensive materials. Because THAT is the core history of fiber works. It was great being able to be $ poor and gift something amazing. Still possible, but much harder.
I was born in in 1964 and remember the 5 and dime stores having lots of inexpensive yarn
I was thinking of the Ben Franklin Stores, if you lived around any. They were little stores that were similar to convenient type stores.
I was born in 1952 and I like today's yarns MUCH better. The yarn of the 50's felt like Astro turf. Lol. I started crocheting at 6 years old.
I loved going to Woolworth's with my mom and my grandma!😊
This was fun and soothing. I got quite a bit accomplished on a shawl I'm making for a neighbor. Thank you Juan.
P. S. Mama is right, check out a vintage pattern. 😊
My mom, who passed away in 1994, was extremely talented in all the needle arts (sewing, embroidery, knitting, crocheting, quilting). As I recall, I think she used mostly medium worsted weight yarn, but I can’t remember if it was wool, cotton, acrylic, or all three. If she were still with us, I would wheel her around Joann (she would be almost 96!) and show her all the new yarns and fabrics. It would blow her mind!!
I’m crocheting with wool right now! So I really enjoy watching your videos while I’m crocheting! I say recipes too! Just do all the things and we will follow!
Thank you for all the things! Have a beautiful weekend!❤😊
I am 70 and I think the color was better back in the day
I like watching/ listening to you no matter what you're doing Juan❤ im working on a neon granny square blanket right now, I always have at least 6 wips at a time, usually more🙄
I was born in 51 and I love all the new yarns!
I love watching & learning from You Juan 💜🌞
I love watching the cake videos - the perfect background while I work on projects.
I think today's yarns are better than the vintage yarns. The vintage yarn colors are pretty, but I prefer the fibers we have today. I am only 4 years older than you 😊
I loved ❤going to Woolworth 's for my yarn. There was so much to choose from.
Coffee and cake sound so inviting!! I'm glad I stayed!! Thoroughly enjoyed watching and listening 🥰
Hi Juan! 👋 A friend of my Mom is decluttering, and that includes yarn. The lady is sharing the good stuff with others, and whatever is left will come to me. I told my Mom I don't care if it's little balls of scrap! I am so excited and hope some is older. 😊
Enjoy these videos. I like seeing all the yarn and their colorways!!
I’m doing a scrap blanket in c2c in the round and listening to my yarn buddy keeping me from boredom! Thx, Juan
I enjoy watching you cake with variegated yarn. I find it soothing and almost hypnotic how the colors change and lie beautifully next to each other. There's only a problem when you're busy crocheting, I forget to work on what I'm doing lol. I'm from 1961 and I learned knitting and crocheting from my mother at the age of 5-6, but I liked the yarns of the past better Many acrylic yarns here, at least in the Netherlands, feel very plastic-like and stiff, especially those from the discounters. I think the composition of the yarn has changed over the years
Yarns aren't necessarily better. They're just beautifully different. We have so many more choices. Though I seem to remember all yarns were center. Just for reference, I'm 84. I've been knitting and crocheting for a long time. My mom and grandmother both crocheted. I think I learned from them. I taught myself how to knit. I don't knit anymore, I grip the needles when . my arthritic hands hurt. So, I stick to crochet where I just hold and don't grip the hook. Crocheting makes me happy. I crochet newborn hats for my local hospital's nursery. They're a nice keepsake of They're stay. Over the last 2 years, I've made nearly a thousand. I love watching you cake up yarn. I got the purple winder and am looking forward to do the same. What's exciting is that all cakes are center pull. Thanks for chatting with us, I love all the things. ❤
There is more of a variety of yarns today than there was in the late 60’s and early 70’s when I first learned to crochet. There wasn’t much of a color choice, but we didn’t know any better. I don’t think people hoarded yarn as much back then. We got what we needed and finished the project before we bought more. I didn’t know any yarn collectors back then. I definitely started collecting fabric before I accumulated tons of yarn too. The quality of yarn I believe is better now.
Evening juan,say hello to you're mom from me,I love to watch you and listen to you when I work on my granny blanket
Hi Juan, again thanks for keeping me company while working on my WIP. Making a meshy top for my 13 year old great niece, she is sending me pictures of clothing she would like me to make for her. I will need a month of Sundays to complete her wardrobe.
I was born the same year as you but in June 27th and I remember when red heart yarn was only 99 cents and my favorite is the rainbow yarn I have been trying to find red heart tropical fruit, bikini, pinata, and starlight. I also love the Mexicana and all of the rainbows I am going to be starting a new baby afghan for a friend's baby. But the first 4 colors I can't find no one has them. If you find some please let me know. Great videos.
Here’s some yarn history: Orlon - made by DuPont -was the first commercially successful acrylic yarn, and it wasn’t widely available until the 1950s. So in reference to your question about whether you would like yarns in the 1940s … likely they wouldn’t have been made out of acrylic, because that wasn’t available then, but would have been cotton or wool instead. And with WWII shortages, probably not much of that was available to average consumers.
So anyway… your gorgeous vintage variegated yarns probably date from the 1960s forward. And they really are beautiful! Such a lovely window on the past. Thanks for sharing them with us! ❤
I started crocheting in the 70s. The main yarn I remember was Sayelle and Wintuck . What can I say I love it all. I liked the prices better then but remember we made a lot less money too. Then again we didn't need it.
I love these cake-y videos. I never knew how stunning and varied all this vintage yarn could be, and I need to get some for myself at some point!
In the 70s I was taught to knit with Phentex yarn which was so stiff & scratchy but needed to make a scarf in order to achieve my "knitting badge" when I was a Brownie in Girl Guides. That yarn turned me off completely until I was 15 & my 90 year young Grandmother taught me to crochet with much nicer yarn, but cant remember what brand. From that experience today's yarn is evolving better & better. Which creates yarn obsessions with us all 😂
#replay. You had me cracking up when you said recipe recipe recipe. I love it when you call a pattern a recipe.
Thanks for giving me something to watch while I cake up a big Pound of Love "blob!"
Todays yarns are better and softer than those of the 60's and 70's. I wore knitted and crochet items in the 60's in 1966 I learned to crochet and knit from my grandmother. The wool was scratchy and the yarn was plastic scratchy and hard in texture. I was knitting socks for my uncles who were in the military 🪖 in Vietnam. I knitted hats to match their helmet and uniform colors. I had a bad alergic reaction to wool in 1974 so for a long time I did not use wool. It is the Lanolin of the yarn. So for me I love today's yarns.
I'm commenting as I'm watching. The first cake is so beautiful! I can confirm that applying tension makes a more compact cake. The first one I ever made was a fluffy little nugget with very little yardage. I gave the second one a little pinch and got easily twice as much on there.
hiya juan! i look forward to cake and coffee as well as wiwj. todays yarns are better in many ways. have a terrific weekend!
I love watching you making cakes while I crochet your C2C blanket! It's fine to talk about recipes instead of patterns, as long as the algorithm doesn't get confused and think you're talking about baking instead of crafting! 😂
Hi Juan thanks for keeping me company while I worked on my project. Be Well
Hi Juan..sitting here watching you wind yarn. I remember watching Crystal (BOD) cake up yarn. She had some sort of attachment that would attach to the winder and then they used a drill to wind it. It was pretty entertaining and funny 😆🧶
I love listening to you “babble on” lol. Coffee and cake is a fun time. I’m making my grandson’s baby blanket larger as he grows.
Shhh, don't tell anyone, but I was watching you on my way to work, lol. Starts my day with a smile. Thanks, Juan! Happy Friday! Big hugs!
I enjoy the chat and all the things😊. I became a cake winder convert when I bought a Knitter's Pride winder, looks like your Knit Picks one. I use to help my Gran wind her scraps of yarn into balls. At the time I had no problem with that. But given a choice between one or the other, I would pick the winder every time, now. A cake winder is very hypnotic. ASMR for the mind😅.
Would my Gran have liked the yarns we have now? Yes, except for one thing. The price now! She would have protested the high prices by not buying yarn hardly ever. She was a "deal and a steal" person too. If it cost a lot she didn't want it.
Have you been given any Caron Dazzle-Aire? It was an acrylic that was soft but fuzzy and didn't shed. It even had a little sheen to it. I used that back in the 1990s, so did my Gran. The colors were nice and the price was right. Makes me miss K-mart.
The vintage combo yarns project sounds fun, whatever design you pick. I love pulling out older yarns and making something special withthem. Just keep itfun for you. Thanks for sharing.🤗😀😎
Hi Juan I have a lot of vintage yarn. It definitely stands the test of time. My favorite is baby vintage yarn sayvelle acrylic with the rayon pearlescent strand wrapped around it. I love when you babble about all the things. 🤣I like the little thing you have with the pink yarn 🙏🏽💜🫂
I have horrible allergies and sinus problems. Have had bronchitis from them more times then I care to admit. A neighbor gifted me a wreck air purifier with heppa filter and a UV light.
The wild flowers is a red heart yarn as well.
I love my Stanwood yarn cake maker! Those vintage yarns you are caking up are the yarns I worked with back when I first started crocheting in my teens. So, I guess I'm vintage!😅
I thought the Stenwood was actually a wooden ball winder 😂 I have a wooden one and it’s a million times better than the Knit Picks winder.
Yes to vintage mystery yarn boxes!
Watching a video by Juan is like sitting and having a chat with an old friend.
I agree. ❤
It was very relaxing watching you cake up all the beautiful yarn 🧶 💜
I could listen to you babble all night Juan! You should ask your mom how she feels about vintage yarn versus today’s. Thanks for all the things 💜
love that starbrights ....its so stinking pretty
Love the starbrights yarn. It was such a cool design as you were winding it up. 💜🩵
😮 Of course we love you rattling on about all the things!
Hi juan, I hope you don't mind me telling you this but your grandma and aunt would say, do what you love juan!. Just be yourself!. Do not change for anyone!. They are proud of you! And love you!. They probably would like the yarn they are used too!. Although try today's. I was shouting candy cane at my screen as you was questioning the colour. Then you said it! Lol!. I have some similar. And my hubby would tell you how organised I am with my yarn too!. Like you!. I like to ball my yarn up also. Lol!. I love variegated!. It's colourful & exciting!. I take 3 balls of a bold colour and wind them together to make brand new colourways, my favourite to knit or crochet with is dk. My hubby likes the chunky. His hands are bigger then mine! Lol!. Your mum is lovely!, mandy uk 🇬🇧 xx😊
Something about you saying a skein was “abandoned” made me sad for all the forgotten yarns out there 😂😂. I love everything about that star brites colorway! ♥️
That was fun! Especially the last cake😊
Juan I need more of these videos even if it's not vintage yarn. I love watching you and theses videos while I'm crocheting
Thryss has that same winder and she covered the whole white part with yarn...💜💜🥰
Great idea 💡 to make cakes and store in a tray that you can put another on top of it
This is my kind of video. I listen while I am working. ❤
My earliest memory of yarn is “ Phentex” from the 60’s. My grandma knit 100’s of pairs of slippers with it. It’s made of 100% Olefin fiber, has no stretch and doesn’t shrink. I’ve never seen it sold in any stores but apparently Yarnspirations still sells it.
There are fewer and fewer brick and mortar stores that sell yarn which is sad but unlike my Grandma, I have the internet and can buy any kind of fiber from anywhere in the world.
In the crochet books, about 25-30 years ago , a book with different Granny Square. There is a beautiful triangle granny square, that was so unusual and awesome worked up. The only /hing I changed was how it showed to sew together. I crochet it together so it would be stronger and put it together with black(there wasn't charcoal, then). It had a stained glassook. Anyway I was just going to say that would be very different and unusual.
Yes soft touch on the yarn and coffee!!! Always coffee!!!! Great day!!!
I have a yarn winder like that and am very happy with it. 😊
I love the. colors but I I like the the softness of the newer yarn is better
Enjoyed watching you cake up vintage yarn while I crochet.🥰
You are so much fun! I feel like you’d be a great friend to sip coffee, work on a WIP, and spill some tea with.
Because we drink coffee and spill tea, not the other way around 🤣
I bought a knit picks winder because you gave it a good review. I never had a yarn winder before and I absolutely love it!
Both of my Grandmas would be in their 130's. In their day I think it was wool and cotton. My one Grandma knitted and crocheted. She knitted me ski wool socks and she knitted Norwegian sweaters. She crocheted cotton thread table clothes, bed spreads and doilies. My other Grandma knitted and crocheted everything from doilies to wool helmet liners during WWII to mohair barbie doll fur coats and stoles and sold them for a lot money in the 60's. About the caking - I am a little OCD and making cakes and bagging them up makes me feel good because they are all neat and tidy. And it is fun. Hugs to you and Momma Wilma - See you tomorrow. 💜💙
Put the wrapper around the outside of the cake. That's what I do. Don't have to worry trying to get the ball band back in the center of the cake.
The more whimsical variegated colorways are nice for a change💙
In the late 70s I worked at the family owned dimestore in our little town that converted to a Ben Franklin the summer I worked there. I was in charge of ordering the yarn. We carried Red Heart and Aunt Lydia's rug yarn. We also had the finer cotton for tatting and doilies. Im thinking the Red Heart was around 50 cents a skein and the Aunt Lydias was around 35 cents. I was watching a vlog where they were thrifting from the Goodwill Bins and they pulled out an afghan that had variegated yarn from that era! I think there are so many more brands, fiber content and color choices now, not to mention the cost now! Makes my heart happy to see old afghans saved and refreshed.
P. S. I just got to the part where you spoke od being born 20 years earlier! I was born in '58 and will be 66 in July. I still think I am 18 though my body says something else! I was more of a sewer back then as I made most of my own clothes.
I have used almost as much vintage Yarn as new Yarn. The older yarn seems to weather well and the out sides become crusty to protect the insides. I just love Yarn and i have appreciated every skein 🧶💛🧶
Have you ask your Mom what she thinks of today’s yarns compared to when she was younger? Does she think they have improved?
I am 46 and can remember going with my grandmother to Kmart to get her yarn for the latest blanket she was making. From what I can remember she would always buy just basic white or off white. I do not remember many variegated and such. I feel like some yarn these days, depending on what you buy, can be over rated and over priced. I tend to stay with my value yarns like Red Heart, Mainstays, Big Twist, Premier Basic, and so on. I would love to know though what my grandmother crocheted with. Again, many thanks for these and all of your videos!
This first yarn is Wildflowers from Red Heart..I have so much of this one 😊
Good evening, Juan! I had carpal tunnel surgery on my right hand and am unable to crochet. Therefore, I am getting my crochet time through you! Thank you for all you do and all the things!!!
Toooo fun... so glad these cakes are low calorie...in fact with that winder, they burn calories😂💜💜🧶🪄
I am more vintage than you and I am not into variegated yarns and I think it goes back to my mother. I cannot remember her ever using it, just plain colors. I know my mom was in love with Red Heart acrylic. I surmise that she probably did not like the care and strength of wool. I don't think there were blends in her day. The only time I did variegated yarn was when I made all my pupils scarves for Christmas gifts. I thought the children would love the colors. I use more adventurous yarns, color wise and content wise now under UA-cam influence!!!.....Yes your mom is right. Vintage with vintage. Didn't you ever know that mother knows best!!! By the way, my ball winder is silent and I love it. I have Cinnamon Stitches to thank for it. She went over things you must have for fiber work. She was spot on for the ball winder and I don't need to clamp it down. You can if you want to. I am making a Quick Silver beanie as I listen to you babble on about all the things!!! ♥️🧶😁🧶♥️
Here till the end.😮Great visit.❤
No, my friend, you are correct, that color is Sunrise. ❤
That was great fun! Greetings from London UK x
Juan, my boyfriend laughs at me because I’ll sometimes “talk” to you, such as saying “oh I have that vintage yarn too!”.
Please consider vintage mystery boxes to sell.
Hi Juan, the blue rainbow kinda looks like Picasso, when it was going around. love it..
Juan, Clark and Coats yarn was like sandpaper but for ten cents a small skein and thats all the money you had in the 60’s you learned to live with it! 🤭 (aka Kathy)
The outside of the skeins are compacted ❤
WOW the way that the star brights skein caked up was super cool! Now I'm wondering if it's possible to do planned pooling with it 👀 If only we could all get our hands on those beautiful vintage yarns! I'm still waiting to see you cake up kaleidoscope, it looks so cool!
As for the question of what we think of the vintage yarns, I'm 23 years old and only started crocheting just under a year ago. I think that the actual texture of acrylic yarns has improved over time in my opinion, but I WISH we had the beautiful, inexpensive variegateds now that existed previously. I honestly just haven't been that inspired by a lot of the variegated colorschemes available currently, but who knows, I might just not be looking in the right places! Then again, even if I did have all of the amazing colors you've come across, I don't even know what I would actually make with them
Mezmerized while watching you cake yarn - I love it, it's so relaxing. I love the colors of vintage yarns. I'm wondering after hearing you talk about all the vintage yarns when they actually started making varigated yarn. The only thing I ever remember my grandmother using were solids or thread like yarn for doilies. I need to research that - now you have me intrigued.