I am often bed or couch bound. Not in a hospital but due to chronic illness. I agree cakes all day every day. If a skein ends up on the floor from trying to get enough yarn pulled out that is an irritation that is just not needed. I take my crochet with me to all my appointments and it is in my bag to keep from falling on the floor, but if I was admitted I would work on a larger project and then they would end up on the floor. Cakes are the way to go.
On another note…my kids have gotten tired of picking up my skeins and have either voluntarily cakes or balled my yarn and put my yarn in a laundry basket at my feet and feed the yarn through the holes at my feet if I have multiple colors because cakes and balls do not tangle, the holes of a laundry basket and towel in between each color keep the colors from mixing and getting tangled, I don’t call them so often lol. This might help in the hospital. I have used this idea in the hospital too.
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Cakes. Cakes. Cakes. Easier for so many reasons. Chronic illness is one. I don’t have to keep getting it when it falls on the floor thus cleaner or asking someone else for help. So cakes all day everyday.
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Thanks, this is a good idea for the normal hospital room, but i’m pretty sure i’m not allowed to bring a laundry basket to my plasmapheresis appointements.
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Now that I’ve started knitting and use the wound skeins that need to be caked I love the cake experience because they don’t get tangled, easy to move around and secure, and I can better see how much I have left or need so I’m hard leaning cake rather than skein.
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yeah I leave it in the skein unless the skein is poorly winded or there is only a little yarn left and it’d get knotted if I don’t cake it
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Ahh I see your point…It doesn’t hurt to ask if you can bring … since treatment takes so long. And it doesn’t need to be a giant laundry basket. But something smaller with holes for the skeins/balls/cakes like a shower caddy or something still serves the same purpose. Skeins in the floor and tangled in tubes are a pain though. But I definitely see your point.
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I prefer cakes. Winding them up by hand is satisfying
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Skein definitely, I’ve always found cakes a bit unruly and hard to pull from compared to a skeins center pull!
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i am def on the cake team!
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I’ve never tried winding it into a cake, but I really want to. I just need to get a winder because I’m too uncoordinated to do it by hand
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Cake! Takes up less space
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if I had a yarn spinner when I started crocheting i would have preferred cakes.
as it is, the yarn winder and I do not get along.
Skeins it is.
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Usually I leave it in a skein until the literal last moment and then cake it. When I say last moment, I MEAN the last moment!!!
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I just keep it in a skein cos I can’t be bothered to do anything else with it-until it falls apart and I have to spend what feels like FOREVER winding it up again into something that looks relatively unknotted! 
lol!
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skein, but when it falls apart I wind it into a cake
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I use cakes because then I don’t have to deal with the tangled mess at the end 
I also love that ribbler is getting its own yarn
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