Warping Instructions
(Instructions in PDF)

With your Mama Bear™ or Papa Bear™ models of Handcrafted Yarn Swift™ you can do warping. If you are a weaver, this will be very handy, especially if you travel or would like to do this in different places. Your swift becomes a portable warping board.

The following are instructions to perform warping for a 2.5 yard warp. Longer warps can be accomplished with 4-6 additional pegs.

Place one peg in each of the farthest out holes at the end of each of the four arms (#1-4 see illustration). Place one peg in a hole closest to the center (#5 see illustration ). Tie or wrap the end of your yarn on peg #5. Your cross will be made between pegs #5 and #1 as illustrated in the diagram. Starting at peg #5, go around peg #1, #2, #3,#4, around the outside of #1, cross and go all around #5, cross, go around #1 and on to #2, to make your second and third and etc., warp. Repeat for as many times as desired. When the desired number of warps have been wound around the swift, return to peg #5. Tie up the yarn at peg #5 and cut the yarn against the #5 peg on the side of the peg closest to the center of the arms. This will give you a warp of 2.5 yards for each strand you wrapped round the swift.