a highly mobile , compact creel that utilizes frames for holding yarn packages for feeding yarn to a tufting machine . each frame includes holders affixed to the frame for holding yarn packages facing front and back , a header attachable to the frame for directing yarn from the yarn packages to the tufting machine , and anti - static flexible tubing for leading yarn from the holders to the header . the header provides for aligning all the yarn ends in the same plane to join them to ends already threaded into the tufting machine . an optional frame overlay upright having a ring affixed thereto and strands threaded through the ring prevents yarn from upper yarn packages from falling onto tubes holding lower yarn packages causing yarn entanglement .