When the new products in the KnitPro collection arrived with
the UK team, we learned a new skill and agreed our crafting life had changed
forever.
We absolutely love our nostepinnes, which are traditional
Scandinavian tools for creating centre pull balls of yarn. Ours come in plain
and coloured wood with a turned handle.
To make your ball, you handwind the yarn round the nostepinne
in a specific way. Click here for a video demonstrating how to use it. It only
takes a few minutes to learn and once you have practised a little you will
discover this is a satisfying and relaxing way to wind up yarn.
As you can see, you can use a nostepinne to wind any yarn
but I think most people would turn to their ball winder (if they have one) for 800m
of laceweight for example. A nostepinne is particularly handy for winding small
ball to be used in colour work or granny squares for example. It is also very useful
for tidying up half used balls of yarn into neater cakes. Certainly we have
been using ours regularly since we had the opportunity to test them out.
Let us know if you have tried a nostepinne and tell us how
get on if you buy a KnitPro one.
