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 Presents 2008

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.

Archive 2008-12-01 Presents 2008

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 Alice Morse Earle 1881

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 Alice Morse Earle 1881

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

All Tangled Up 2010

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 2009

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

British Blogs 2009

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 2009

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 2008

" 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 Gabaldon, Diana 2005