Oops! I meant to blog about this in… what… April, 2007!?! (Just click on the photo below and you’ll see the date that it was taken on Flickr.) Anyway, if you use a vertical swift similar to the one that I have, and you have problem getting tightly wound yarn cakes, lubricate the moving parts a little. It can make a lot of difference. Just look at this:
Same type of yarn, just different colors. One before I oiled the swift. The other after. What a difference! I read some complaints on blogs about the tightly wound yarn cakes and remembered that I was going to make a note about it. But before you add any type of lubricant to your vertical swift, check if it is safe to do so. I am not an expert on what’s good and what’s not to use on plastic or wood. There are also parts that do not need to be and shouldn’t be lubricated. Just doing a little research before do so, OK?
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I think one is warned against winding the cakes too tight due to stretching the yarn and then after it’s knit with it will go back to it’s more natural state and alas, your project may end up being smaller…. eh?
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Posted 16 Jul 2008 at 6:31 am ¶