Ball Winder aka Nostepinne

I saw a de-stash ad on Ravelry for a nostepinne.  I decided to succumb and purchased it for $10.  It is much larger than I thought it was going to be.

You might be thinking to yourself right about now - what the heck is a nostepinne?


Well, it is a hand winder for yarn to corral it into a nice neat ball for knitting or weaving or any other fiber craft that you can think of.  Most yarn comes in a skein - where you use a niddy noddy.


Skeins of yarn are hard to keep tidy so winding the skein into a center pull ball is much easier.  The main tools for that is a swift and a hand crank ball winder.  Here are mine.

This nostepinne is for travel and has been used for hundreds of years before that nifty hand crank thing.


Here is a video by New Voyager who distributes Kromski equipment showing the how to on winding a ball of yarn on a nostepinne.