My Danish Nostepinne

 I continue to knit on my baby blanket.  When I'm ready for a new skein of  yarn, I wind it into a center-pull ball using a wooden hand tool called a nostepinne.  I bought this nostepinne at the Funen Village Open-air Museum outside the city of Odense in Denmark in 1993.  Katherine and I watched it being made (turned on a lathe) by a man dressed in traditional Danish farm workers clothing at this beautiful historic museum.  We have searched for and even purchased one or two nostepinne here in the United States in the years since we returned from living in Denmark, but they are all much larger and not nearly so nice as this little one.