So, one of the ladies on one of my knitting/spinning blogs was asking for a quick and dirty tensioned Lazy Kate. I uploaded pics to the Yahoo group but they’re hard to find so I’m putting them here. I call mine Ugly Kate, but she works just fine.
I used fishing line on a darning needle, dowels that would fit all my bobbins, paper “straws” on my drop spindles that would fit on the same dowels, a phillips screwdriver to punch holes for the dowels…and that was it.
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Does the fishing line go around the bobbins? How does it tension the Kate?
–Fudge
I inserted the line a good half inch below the top of the drive-band groove, forcing the line to be taut over the grooves. It’s a cheat, but a working cheat.
: D
I am impressed with the 3M box itself. How did you get one?
You know, that’s an excellent question! I think I must have begged it off of a store in Brooklyn when we were moving. But that was many moves ago–and many many years.
; )