VHS Cassette Yarn Dispenser!

Skeined Productions - 5 minute project to turn your favorite VHS cassette into a nifty two color yarn dispenser! 

Tools required:
Small Phillips head screwdriver
VHS Cassette
Scissors
Many feet of Yarn (can be any thickness)

Step 1: Remove All Screws & Open VHS Cassette

Using the screw driver, remove all 5 screws and keep them because they will be needed for later. Open up the VHS by gently pulling the back straight off the bottom, don't worry about parts falling off or falling around, none of them are needed later.

Comments

[ianolivia]

@firehorse
I might make this, but with ribbon, like you said it would be a good idea.

[firehorse]

this would be great for ribbon too

[ToniRose]

Brilliant! No more dropping balls and watching them unspool across the room. I like to knit socks two at a time and this is perfect.

Question: how much yard (and of what type) did you load on each spool?

[Ysabeau]

IMHO, will be better for stranded work than for knitting 2 socks at a time.

[mattopensource]

I laid the yarn out end to end loosely on the floor and measured out 42 yards of yarn. The yarn in the pictures is the inexpensive acrylic craft store yarn that's sold in the large skeins, I believe it is worsted weight?

I am working on another multi yarn dispenser that will use old CD's and DVD's and hopefully will hold much more yarn and more colors, stay tuned!

[cyberviper42]

This is a really ingenious idea. Keep uploading your projects!

[mattopensource]

Thanks cyber! I am working on even more multi thread dispenser ideas, hopefully going to have them up in less then a week!

[Penolopy Bulnick]

That is a wonderful idea! Just genius! If you have a bunch of them, you can just line them up on the shelf like regular movies and people will never know it's really yarn :)

[MikB]

If you do put these with your video tape collection, make sure you don't have a VHS machine in the house any more, otherwise children will try and feed one of these in to watch at some point. :)

The tangly mess will be horrendous.

[Pancake!]

Whaaaaatttt?! This is amazing.