Secrets of the Nostepinne- wind your yarn!
April 22, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under eco projects & green projects & recycling craft, tutorial, yarn, yarn crafts
Happy Earth Day!
Today’s video is quite Earth friendly. It features an old kind of technology:
The Nostepinne. The whozzawhat?
Nostepinnes are basically friendly little sticks that you use to wind a ball of yarn on.
A reader sent me a note, asking about winding yarn, and saying that she didn’t have a yarn winder.
Well, I DO have a yarn winder. It’s old as the hills, as I bought it when I was 15 and had just saved up all my babysitting and part time jobs money and bought myself a knitting machine.
The yarn winder is now somewhat fragile, and so I don’t use …read more
