Worldly Swift Love
Recently, I've received a bunch of requests for permission to publish the content of my homemade swift instructions. The first request was made by the West Toronto Knit and Crochet Guild's president, Terry, who wanted to print the instructions and the link in their guild newsletter, Ravellings. The second request was made by the editor of a knitting newsletter, The Smart Knitter, who asked me to write an article about how I came up with the idea to make my own swift.
In June, I received a very nice merci beaucoup with a link to the yarn swift Nath made from my instructions. I wish I understood French, because it appears to be a nicely organized and written blog. Look at all the pictures of the lovely FOs! Then about 1 month later, I received a request from Michel, a webmaster for a French spinning forum, to link the
pattern instructions. Of course I said yes. I've noticed people linking, but never had I received such a nice request.
Way back in April, Susan from Canada sent me a photo of her yarn swift, to which her dad made and adapted using a small lazy susan from around the house. (side note: I found some lazy susan hardware several months ago and have been meaning to put up another yarn swift version using the hardware. But as usual, I've been procrastinating. Maybe next month.)
Although not related to swifts, I want to highlight Gloria (?), a Brazilian blogger, who I found while perusing my blog visitors' sites. One certainly does not need to read Portuguese to admire and appreciate amazing ginormous crochet lace projects like this and this.
I'm so glad that people are able to make their own swifts!
In June, I received a very nice merci beaucoup with a link to the yarn swift Nath made from my instructions. I wish I understood French, because it appears to be a nicely organized and written blog. Look at all the pictures of the lovely FOs! Then about 1 month later, I received a request from Michel, a webmaster for a French spinning forum, to link the
pattern instructions. Of course I said yes. I've noticed people linking, but never had I received such a nice request.Way back in April, Susan from Canada sent me a photo of her yarn swift, to which her dad made and adapted using a small lazy susan from around the house. (side note: I found some lazy susan hardware several months ago and have been meaning to put up another yarn swift version using the hardware. But as usual, I've been procrastinating. Maybe next month.)
Although not related to swifts, I want to highlight Gloria (?), a Brazilian blogger, who I found while perusing my blog visitors' sites. One certainly does not need to read Portuguese to admire and appreciate amazing ginormous crochet lace projects like this and this.
I'm so glad that people are able to make their own swifts!
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3 Comments:
I am totally going to make one of those swifts. It's perfect. Just have to go out and get the stuff. Bill doesn't want to help because it isn't challenging enough for him, so I'll just do it myself :)
How cool that you have so many international requests! I love that crafting is so universal. I hope to make a swift per your instruction soon. Maybe I can use the lazy susan version and get my dad to help me when he's visiting?
Thank you for sharing the yarn swift instructions. I convinced my father-in-law to make me one recently, and I love it! :)
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