Abstract: The skin tension set includes an anchor member having a body portion and a plurality of suture guides along its sidewalls and bottom coupled by a single suture loop to the anchor is a winder. The winder has a body portion with suture guides at the bottom not unlike the anchor portion. In addition, however, the winder includes a central reel with suture anchoring guides, a ratchet at one end, and a drive preferably with the form of a detachable knurled knob at the other. According to the method of the present invention, the wound is sutured with preferably a monofilament suture by passing the suture through one suture guide in the winder reel and then through and out the bottom of the winder bottom across the wound, through the skin on the opposite side of the wound, looped through the anchor and similarly back to the winder and knotted.