The wide ranging experiences of someone who lives in the Australian bush in a knocked together tin shed with a heap of animals and still manages to hold down a job, study full time and raise a family.
What is a yarn swift?
Well...you know when you are watching a movie in the evening and decide to ball up some yarn for a new project you are just dying to knit? The inevitable problem is to get someone (partner, visitor, small child, family dog) to hold the skein while you ball up the yarn. Nobody wants to do it so you end up trying to ball from a skein hung over two chair legs or over your own feet (which is a bit like yoga) leading to knots and snarls (knots in the yarn, snarls on your face). A yarn swift is a mechanical helper who will hold the yarn steady for you whenever you like while you make cute little balls of knitting materials.
I guess my mostly absent partner got very tired of being met at the door by arm loads of skeins because he made me a swift.
First we did a bit of internet research to find the right design;
Then the building began...
He built pretty much to the instructions in the clip (the difference between us... I can't follow instructions).
The base is a piece of spare ply
Finding the centre to drill the hole
Drilling the hole
The bolt thingy in the base for the arms to swing around.
A spacer so the arms aren't too close to the base.
Sawing the arms to the right length
The arms are notched so they sit level with each other
See
Drilling the hole right through the middle
A bit of copper pipe in the middle holds it all together
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