Necessity is the mother of invention?
Annie has her way, I have mine. Scroll down to the bottom of Annie's post to see her replacement swift. I don't have a swift, either fixed or broken. Nor do I have a ball winder. But I do have chairs.
The backs of chairs came to my aid to wind my skeins of my new Kauni wool (color EF, with lovely greens, blues, purples...) from Astrid's Dutch Obsessions. Dangerous store, with beautiful yarns that we mostly just dream about here in the US.