tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2105841235838423173.post4090769391836003408..comments2022-03-27T14:13:45.406-04:00Comments on One Pink Hippo's old blog: Dr Yarnlove or: How I Learned to Stop Using the Backs of Chairs and Floor and Love the Yarn SwiftUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2105841235838423173.post-42549954812444082012009-08-09T11:46:13.414-04:002009-08-09T11:46:13.414-04:00Now that is an idea, my phone does video, but I do...Now that is an idea, my phone does video, but I don't have a camcorder or anything. I think pictures will be best. Yes, I did take some pictures. Don't hate me for asking, but are you sure it is an actual "hank" of yarn? Doesn't sound like an actual hank.mykliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14856246397057651861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2105841235838423173.post-24863029461401208932009-08-09T11:20:16.738-04:002009-08-09T11:20:16.738-04:00It was the way it was woven together. I thought ha...It was the way it was woven together. I thought hanks just come undone, but this was woven together. It was really weird, and then it got tangled. :( <br /><br />Yes, yes, come to VA! I can give personal tours of DC. Oh, but you should wait until fall, because the humidity's a bitch. <br /><br />I need to look back at your old entries. Don't you have a video of your swift?rosehippohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11351082169865841689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2105841235838423173.post-80368224494926350632009-08-09T08:31:40.923-04:002009-08-09T08:31:40.923-04:00Oh dang!!! I think I'm going to have to buy a ...Oh dang!!! I think I'm going to have to buy a hank of yarn this weekend and take pictures. How awful. ;-)<br /><br />Or perhaps Nicole and I should go on a field trip to Virginia to visit you and play with your yarn swift. haha, I like that even better (though I know it isn't possible right now, I do have vacation coming up, just no money).<br /><br />Seriously, I haven't had any problems. Once you get the hang of it, it will be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Needless to say as soon as I get a hank it goes on the swift, so all my yarn currently is in nice center pull balls. I will buy a nice hank of yarn next weekend though (pay day is on Friday, pretty broke until then), I am thinking of getting that nice cotton yarn I got Nicole a while back. Then I will take pictures. I really don't know what you are doing that everything gets tangled up.mykliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14856246397057651861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2105841235838423173.post-44938102196632790272009-08-08T23:36:33.936-04:002009-08-08T23:36:33.936-04:00It is! It's just me. For some reason, yarn alw...It is! It's just me. For some reason, yarn <b>always</b> tangles on me. I don't even understand how it wrapped itself around the swift! Crazy yarn.<br /><br />OOo, I'll keep that in mind, and ask myklia if she has any tips, too. It was working perfectly, but the hank was wrapped weird, and...woven? I don't know how to describe it, but when I unwound it, it wasn't a single circle, it was overlapped/meshed together. I should take a picture so I can tell you. Do all skeins come like that? I thought when they hank-ified it, they just wrapped it in a figure 8, not meshed it.rosehippohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11351082169865841689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2105841235838423173.post-71100354020955027572009-08-08T22:10:41.425-04:002009-08-08T22:10:41.425-04:00haha. Sorry for your troubles with the swift! It...haha. Sorry for your troubles with the swift! It isn't perfect, I know, I'm not either. ;-) <br /><br />Just remember to tie the end you finish with around one of the dowels so it doesn't get wrapped around the bolt (I learned this by mistake one time), balancing takes minor periodic adjustments, and not going too fast... keep the swift moving with you not ahead of you. (If that makes sense.) <br /><br />myklia might have a couple more suggestions since she has used hers a few times. I thought the CD was a funny addition. A, what the heck is this, kind of thing.elociNNicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16493309837910896183noreply@blogger.com