Archive for the 'Spinning' 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 […]


Saga of the noddy

Published on November 22, 2009

A while back, I told the sad tale of the demise of my niddy noddy. It wasn’t the finest available; actually it was rather on the cheapie side. It came free with my first spinning wheel, which was bought used. Mom always said, You get what you pay for.  She was almost always right. It’s demise […]


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 […]