Here's a photo of a swift I made for my wife last year at about this time. It's a pretty simple device...an adjustable spindle for yarn. You wrap the yarn around it, and then you can unwind it onto a ball winder to make a nice ball of yarn.
The design I used is from here, and it was super easy to make. You just need to get a piece of hardwood. I think it's the first thing I've ever made where I sought out and bought a piece of hardwood. You only need one piece, it's not going to cost an arm and a leg.
This freed me from standing around holding skeins of yarn. So really, making it was a form of self defense.
This design has the virtue of quickly coming apart for storage.
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