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crafting help please, what is this? or how do I use it.?

I got this item in a lot of sewing/knitting stuff in an online auction, it has a center circle and five arms/loops placed evenly apart around the circle. it's metal and very faded but I think it says gleam silk and wool winder. and a patent no. any help would be appreciated

Public Comments

1. It sounds like a wool winder. ;) Seriously, it's a tool people would use to wrap their wool around. It's one of the most pointless things invented for crafting, in my opinion, but there you go. I've seen plastic versions in the stores lately that are shaped like daisies. You just use it in the place of your fingers to start winding a ball of yarn and wind the ball around it.
2. It sounds like a knitting loom. Search for Knifty Knitter by provocraft and see if it's like that. You can wind your yarn around those little arms and then use a pick to pull the bottom yarn up and over the top layer. It's a very easy and quick way to knit. That's what it sounds like to me.
3. its used to wind embroidery thread on to keep it neat, the daisy shaped wool winder is not a thread keeper or thing to make a ball of yarn on, you follow the directions in the booklet and make daisy shapes, stack up a mess of them over time, then you sew them together making a lacy daisy item from a hat to a bedspread. anna you need to learn what you are talking about, yes this item you have might very well be similar to that or a spool knitter system, good luck.