Knitting and Yarn Peas- a question about yarn bowls

Well! I had no idea these existed! I had to google and they are neat!

I think this is a new Christmas gift I will add to my list.

I think I would like a wooden one!

It seems most people I know prefer the wooden ones.  They are not as heavy and are less likely to fall and break.

I just got a beautiful Polish stoneware yarn bowl for my birthday. I tried it out and my yarn rolls around smoothly in it. That said, I don't see myself using it other than as a decorative item with some balls of yarn in it. I prefer small portable baskets/plastic boxes to house my projects at home, since I knit in different places, and I like to have the tools I need on hand for each project (crochet hook for correcting errors, row counter, tape measure, etc).

Ooh, these look cool, thanks. I like that they're fairly small, and can be tossed into a project bag. This would work well for me because I could put the box in my baskets at home. Thanks for the link!

DS22 bought me a beautiful ceramic bowl where he lives for my birthday last month. (I had admired one at a farmers market when we moved him to the city over the summer and he took note and went to one of the pottery shops and picked one out.) Sadly the little loop that holds the yarn broke when he mailed me the package. I've tried several different heavy duty glues to no avail. I'm probably just going to washi tape it on as smoothly as I can. I'm currently using a center pull cake so the loopy thing isn't really necessary. Poor kid felt awful but he did a great job picking out a style I love.

It's always nice to keep the yarn contained and when you travel with it loose it easily becomes tangled with other things in your bag. A long skein can easily be kind of folded to fit into one of these (make sort of a horseshoe shape with it).

In the past, I have used a yarn bowl that I made out of polymer clay and I liked how it kept the yarn from traveling all over the place. But it broke cause I did not bake it right. So, I recently purchased a ceramic bowl with a lid and am waiting for it to come in. It was half the price of the wooden bowls. I always sit in the same spot in the evening and do handwork and this will keep the cat out of my yarn hopefully. She loves to play with yarn. The lid was what sold me, it will keep the cat out, the yarn in while knitting and crocheting and be pretty when not in use. Also, I always wind my yarn into a ball to keep it from snarling up towards the end which means it will tend to roll around if not contained. I can't wait for my new bowl to come in.