After owning my tabletop swift for a year now and still having problems on how to use it, it kinda figures that my non-knitting bf figured it out before me.
There's a lock on top, he said. And little locks on the bottom.
What he meant was that knobby thing that screws down in the middle of the swift. I had always thought it was a decorative knob and had no idea it served a function.
What used to take me at least 30 minutes to 4.5 hours (in extreme cases) to wind a ball has now been shaved down to 8 minutes. Patience...
4 comments:
what a patient girl you must be to keep preserving! you might need to knit your friend something as a thank you!
Don't feel so bad -- it took me a while also to realize that the finial on top turned to lock the swift at a certain diameter!
I'm making something with Misti Alpaca right now as well... it's so soft!
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Tools are so useful when you can finally get them to work right!
My husband made me my swift, and it is a bit tempermental, but it still speeds up the winding process a lot for me!
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