Way, way, way back I posted about the desire to design an inexpensive swift. It was a nice little engineering challenge, come up with a design that was cheap and easy to make. Yet again, all my fun was taken away. A few days after that post, I discovered that my knitting geologist colleague from GeoKnitting had already found an elegant solution: behold the $10 swift...
Overview
Base
Side view of lazy susan part
Back. Note elaborate assembly methods
Front. Lots of wood glue for stability
Arms. Note sophisticated yarn-holding mechanism (binder clip)
Too many geeky knitters around. Bah. Need to thin the herd, or else stop using the internet!
NoNoNoNoNo! Let there be geeky knitters. Solidarity!
Have you seen the Klein bottle hat? I think a Ms. Knittyhead Monkeesomething is developing a pattern. She has info and a link on her page, if I recall correctly.
(Just thought I'd leave a note whilst I'm on the road. You've been impressively busy.)
Posted by: sp4thomasina | July 08, 2005 at 12:30 PM