Caydo Electric Yarn Winder Review

I was recently sent a few Caydo products for review. You may have seen them online and I’m excited to share with you what I like and what I love and the ways in which I use my new products in my crafting space. Let’s dive into the pros and cons of the two different electric yarn winders from Caydo!

Caydo Product Review

The Caydo brand of yarn winders and yarn tools have recently burst onto the market. I’ve seen them all over the place and I’m excited to get to share my feedback, thoughts, and ideas with you regarding these new tools for fiber artists.

Throughout my crocheting years, I have owned and used various kinds of yarn winders. All of my previous yarn winders have been manual (hand crank) of varying sizes.

I have always preferred the manual crank because I thought that if you encountered a knot in the yarn or a snag of any sort, it would be easier to stop what you’re doing immediately and address the issue without having to beat the machine to the punch. I’ve learned that that is not necessarily true.

My first yarn winder was small, a 4 oz winder that holds one “average” size skein of yarn. This is a beginner-friendly winder and it feels inevitable that one will desire to upgrade to a larger size at some point.

After a while, I got another manual yarn winder that holds up to 10 oz – quite a bit of yarn and makes for big, beautiful yarn cakes. I have permanently attached mine to an inexpensive bar stool so that I can carry it all over the house as needed to whichever room I’m working. See more on that here.

There are various other kinds of yarn winders on the market, and depending on how the yarn is presented, you may need a swift as well. See a full array of yarn winders and swifts etc in this article on Heart Hook Home.

What is Caydo?

The Caydo brand of yarn winders are the first electric yarn winders I have ever owned. There are two sizes available, the smaller of the Caydo winders holds up to 7 oz of yarn and the larger of the Caydo winders can hold up to 10 oz of yarn.

For reference, one skein of Brava Worsted is 3.5 oz, Lion Brand Heartland is 5 oz, Caron Simply Soft is 6 oz, and one skein of Red Heart Super Saver is 7 oz. Any of those would fit on even the smaller of the Caydo winders.

They also have an i-cord maker which I am super excited to use for a project in my new studio AND a thread burner. This is to be used as an alternative to scissors and can keep certain fibers from fraying by lightly melting the ends. Great for lightly melting the ends of nylon cord to keep it from unraveling.

Stay tuned for a video for each of these products on the Heart Hook Home Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok pages.

I appreciate the hands-off approach of electric yarn winding, although you do need to remain present and watchful as the yarn cakes are made. You need to be able to turn the motor off in case it runs into a knot or a snag in the yarn.

To be honest I was worried that I would run into issues or that the process would be stressful, but using the winders is painless and its nice to not wear your arm out with the traditional manual crank winders if you’ve got a lot of winding to do. Babysitting the yarn winder is much more enjoyable than manually cranking, that’s for sure!

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I have found that the Caydo electric yarn winders work best when winding yarn that is originally packaged as a skein OR to clean up the remaining portion of yarn left over from a project. There’s nothing worse than stacks of half-used limp yarn skeins all over your crafting space. We all know how quickly that can turn into a real tangled up nightmare!

Winding your yarn is an excellent way to keep your yarn space clean and organized – or as clean and organized as it can get! 😜

I have used these winders to help me frog projects that I have decided not to finish or to repurpose the yarn. They do surprisingly well at regulating the yarn as it winds onto the spool. The two springs hold the strand in place and they help to smooth out any knots before it gets through all of the yarn guides. You may need to stop the winder and untangle a bit of yarn here and there, but overall I am pleased with the efficiency of the winders.

I have noticed that when using my electric winder with my yarn swift, the motor on the winder has to work a little harder than I like. That may be because my swift is wooden and could probably use some oiling, but for now I am sticking to partial skeins or winding bigger yarn cakes or balls into two – for working Tunisian Crochet in the round, for example.

The motor on both the winders is quiet enough that you can wind cakes while having a show on in the background.

After moving into my new home in September, and transferring my yarn wall cakes from one office, into storage, to another storage room, it was finally time to hang it up again in its new forever home. I used my two Caydo winders attached to my sewing desk to wind yarn cakes while I put up my 12 foot x 4 foot yarn wall in the new studio space.

When I came across a ball of yarn that was a bit too messy to put up on the wall as-is, I’d slap it on one of the winders and let it get to work. See the time-lapse video of putting up the yarn wall here.

I was also sent the thread burner and their i-Cord maker which I plan to use to make a DIY project for the new studio. I’ll play around with the thread burner and let you know what I think! Which of these yarn tools are you most excited to work with?