This baby is every bit as great as my bead spinner, and the only thing I had to buy was the box, which cost me a few dollars at Staples. The box is a 5 or 6 inch cube and was the smallest they had at the time. Saw at Webeccasays that someone even used a huge mug instead. I inherited the lazy susan, used recovered elastic from an old garment, and everything else I just had on hand. I put small cast garden stones in the middle of the box to keep it from sliding off center when it's moving fast. I know there's some rubbery shelf liner around here somewhere, but the weight seems to work just fine. I position the clothespins above the yarn because for winding I sit in my recliner and put the swift where my feet should be. The yarn has a tendency to occasionally pop over the top, but never wants to slide off the bottom. A bit of the outcome depends on the sticky/grippiness of the yarn itself and how neatly or less neatly the hank was wound.
Was just a small challenge and a bit of practice to figure out how to adjust the yarn for easiest use. Like being sure one end of the yarn came neatly off the outside of the hank (as arranged around the swift) and the other end tended to fall to the inside. I have the best luck when turning the swift clockwise with the yarn approaching the ball winder around the 5:30 position. Also results are better when I keep the wire guide for the ball winder aimed toward where the yarn is coming from. Sounds like common sense, but I made some odd mistakes at first and had inconsistent results until I relaxed about it and was paying better attention.
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