Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Yarn Swift


This was a simple project that made a nice gift for my wife at Christmas. I had some small bits of scrap cherry and yew lying around for the parts; all I had to buy was a £4.00 lazy susan bearing from Axminster.

The turned parts were two disks of cherry (one with a recess cut on one face to accommodate most of the thickness of the bearing), four shaker style pegs, and a knob with an M6 screw glued at the end. A threaded insert is screwed into the underside of the top disk. The two arms are yew with a half-lap joint in the middle and a series of holes for placing the pegs at different diameters.

Click here for a higher rez video on youtube.

A simple project for anyone you know who knits!

p.s. Forgive the mumbling nature of the narration.

1 comment:

Drusy said...

Thanks sweetie, I love it!