niddy-noddy

“You may want to grab a niddy-noddy and figure out what kind of yardage you have in these little balls, or you can just wing it.”

Step 9: Take stock of your scraps

“The yarn might be wound from the spindle into skeins in another way, -- by using a hand-reel, an implement which really did exist in every farmhouse, though the dictionaries are ignorant of it, as they are of its universal folk-name, niddy-noddy.”

Home Life in Colonial Days

“As it was at a time of English prohibitions and restrictions of American manufactures, this niddy-noddy, as an accessory and promoter of colonial wool manufacture, was smuggled into the country.”

Home Life in Colonial Days

“(No niddy-noddy. just up-ended a chair and used the legs.) 2 more washes and the smell was gone.”

All Tangled Up

“I need to niddy-noddy them to get the yardage, I think.”

British Blogs

“But still, after I'd wound it off on the niddy-noddy, the relaxed skeins still looked like something I'd be afraid to bother knitting with.”

The Heathen Housewife

“My hubby works with wood … I was tired of pouting so I went out and bought my niddy-noddy, sort of like the plumbers wife!”

WordPress.com News

“ Marsali began winding the thread onto the niddy-noddy, a small, seemingly permanent frown showing between her fair brows.”

A Breath of Snow and Ashes