some improvement

[celticdragonfly]

I think I'm doing a bit better. I wouldn't say perky, no. But there is some improvement.

Over the weekend I got to play with my birthday present swift. Gleeeee! It's like an collapsible extra husband!

I went to the housefilk on Saturday and reasonably enjoyed myself.

And I've gotten the Crumpets dress started, I have figured out the bits that were confusing me, and am knitting away on the bodice.

Comments

[miari.livejournal.com]

"It's like an collapsible extra husband!"
Um... I'm afraid to ask.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Okay, the swift looks like this:


and you use it (among other possibilities) to hold a skein of yarn while winding it onto a ball, like this:


If you don't have one, you get someone else, in my case my spouse, to hold the skein, like this:


a process that should look as graceful as this:


but actually ends up a lot more like this:

[miari.livejournal.com]

*blink* Wow! That is the best (and only) pictorial reply I've ever gotten;)

[castiron.livejournal.com]

It's like an collapsible extra husband!

[ponders]

[thinks better of it]