Swift

Published by Shana | Filed under Knitting

On our grand adventure through the South, we kept seeing these awesome upright swifts in the museums. It was pretty clear I needed one like that, instead of the ubiquitous table top ones. For all you non-knitters out there, swifts are used to roll yarn into balls so it doesn’t get tangled.

I was thinking that I’d have to dig through a lot of dusty antique stores to find one, but nope one popped up on Craigslist on my first try. Destiny.

yeah. grimy.

Disassembled, scrubbed with Murphy’s oil soap, replaced and tightened the screws, reassembled and now it’s functional. It’s still missing some slats. It’ll be a lot more involved to fix that, since I’d have to do all of them. It’ll probably never happen.

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