Abstract: This compact creel is adapted to continuously supply yarns from unusually large diameter yarn supply packages to a textile yarn processing machine having an elongate frame and a plurality of spaced-apart yarn processing stations therealong. The creel is formed with a row of closely spaced yarn support frames supported for limited rotary movement and in parallel spaced relationship from the machine frame to provide a passageway between the creel and the textile machine. Each of the support frames includes three vertically spaced decks with four pairs of yarn supply packages in spaced-apart positions on each deck. The yarn supply packages are supported with the yarn withdrawal ends of adjacent packages in substantially facing relationship to each other so that one of the large diameter yarn supply packages acts as a yarn feeding supply package while the other yarn supply package is tailed thereto and acts as a reserve yarn supply package.