Archive for the 'Knitting' Category



More yarn coming

Published on November 25, 2009

Here’s a niddy noddy in use.  Yarn comes off a spindle or bobbin of a spinning wheel, and is wrapped around this simple device. (Simple in that it’s been around, virtually unchanged, since the beginning of time, and was an old device in Biblical days) There are two end pieces, and they are turned 90 degrees […]


What day is today?

Published on November 19, 2009

Beautiful evening – love the colors in the sky.  Taken on a beautiful Sunday, warm, sunny, warm?? The middle of November and warm?  Huh? Spent Sunday afternoon at the Kent County Knitters meeting – how lucky to be part of a group that meets at a tavern!! Order a cold tall Coors Light and knit. Life […]


Niddy noddy and noro

Published on November 10, 2009

Yes, I firmly spoke the words out loud,”I will not buy any more craft shit.” I was prompted to do that by someone else who shall remain nameless here, someone who thinks that getting into the same bed with me each night from the other side gives him the authority to say this. I tend to look at statements […]