{"id":735,"date":"2010-08-10T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=735"},"modified":"2010-08-09T15:50:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T22:50:46","slug":"a-niddy-noddy-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"A Niddy-Noddy Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I was hit by the oddest fever in the middle of the week.\u00a0 No other symptoms, just a fever and all its fun side-effects like aches, chills, joint pain, and sore neck.\u00a0 Thankfully, it only lasted a few days, and by Saturday morning I was feeling much better but still not up for much.\u00a0 So, I got out the spinning wheel and sat down to plying.<\/p>\n

Plying up 4 ounces of wool into a approximately fingering weight yarn (I’ll know more details once it has finished drying from its bath) went a lot quicker than I expected.\u00a0 I am so used to spinning 2-ply, laceweight yarns that take forever to see a finished product.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, I wanted to see about getting the yarn into a bath to see how it looked finished.\u00a0 Go to pull out my niddy-noddy only to remember that the pup chewed it up a couple weeks ago.\u00a0 *sigh*\u00a0 I also remember that my LYS is on vacation, so no quick dash to the store to save me.\u00a0 This is when I recall that I have a back-up niddy-noddy.\u00a0 It’s a handmade piece that I bought from The Rug & Yarn Hut years ago.\u00a0 I also have a spindle made by the same guy.\u00a0 It took me a little while I find where I stashed it and to get it back together into one piece (it splits in the middle for storage and it held together by a wooden pin, which has a very tight fit).\u00a0 I gleefully proceed to winding the yarn off the bobbin into a 2-yard skein for washing.\u00a0 I tie up the ends and go to pull the skein off, when it dawns on me why this is my back-up niddy-noddy.\u00a0 I can’t get the yarn off, at least not easily.<\/p>\n

Now don’t get me wrong, it is a beautiful piece of wood and craftsmanship.\u00a0 A dark hard wood with a lighter wood inlay.\u00a0 The maker thoughtfully put a slot in one of the arms to hold the end of the yarn as you beginning to wind it.\u00a0 But, and it’s a bit of a but, he left all 4 arms of the niddy-noddy swooped up in a pretty little design.\u00a0 A pretty little design that does not allow the yarn to slide off the niddy-noddy.\u00a0 My now gone Ashford niddy-noddy had all 4 arms smoothed in a downward fashion making slipping the skein off a breeze.\u00a0 I have seen more ornate niddy-noddies such as mine with the decorative ends, but they usually have one arm left smoothed down for yarn removal.<\/p>\n

This beautiful niddy-noddy took me a good 15 minutes to get the yarn off as I slowly slipped small sections off at a time, hoping that doing so wouldn’t hurt my newly-minted yarn.\u00a0 So, unless someone can recommend a way to make this tool work more easily for me, I am now on the hunt for a usable niddy-noddy or skein-winder that doesn’t cost too much.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the yarn came off the niddy-noddy looking extremely excited.\u00a0 It’s gotten a nice soak and several thwacks.\u00a0 I can’t wait to see how it looks once it’s dry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was hit by the oddest fever in the middle of the week.\u00a0 No other symptoms, just a fever and all its fun side-effects like aches, chills, joint pain, and sore neck.\u00a0 Thankfully, it only lasted a few days, and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[324,325,318,323,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}