Anyone know ??

Apparently there used to be words to use when using a Niddy Noddy to make a
skein...Anyone know it?

cheers.....Cher

I only know the four letter ones I use when it slips off one arm when
I'm not looking.

;-)

naughty naughty..lol

cher


"knittingand" wrote in message
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I only know the four letter ones I use when it slips off one arm when
I'm not looking.

;-)

"spinninglilac" skrev i melding
.. .
Apparently there used to be words to use when using a Niddy Noddy to
make a
skein...Anyone know it?

cheers.....Cher

Cher!
I Googled and tried to find out, because this is interesting!
We have a song in Norway, and I wondered if there was a song in English.
I am sure there is! There is an answer thet leads to a news/discussion
group;
and there is a message:

"I think there's an old, old song that children would sing while winding
yarn - does anyone recall hearing this?
Rachel "
http://p083.ezboard.com/fknittymagaz...picID=27.topic

I am not able to find any answer to this!
AUD;-)

In article , "spinninglilac"
wrote:

Apparently there used to be words to use when using a Niddy Noddy to make a
skein...Anyone know it?

cheers.....Cher

I do have that in a book somewhere, but there maybe more than one rhyme
for that.

Hang in there I will have a look, this is from the bookHomespun
handicrafts by Ella Shannon bowles 1931

Here is one Niddy Noddy, Niddy Noddy Two heads with one body

When I'm a grown-up woman,
with my hair up on my head
I'ill sit and sew tell very late
and never go to bed.

and this one is out of Certrude Whiting, Old-time tools and toys of needlework.

A knitting Rhyme

Where's the cat whose twisted cradle
All the children, young and old,
Have been making-still are making-
will be making-turn and fold,
twist, and slip, and turn, and double,
till the very world is old.

Both books were found at seconds tables in Book City, Toronto, years ago
and both were reissues in the seventies.

Els

The one I heard was used, I learned as a nursery rhyme:

All around the mulberry bush,
The monkey chased the weasel,
The monkey thought is was all for fun,
PoP goes the weasel.

Allededly if you did this right, the word POP marked a yard wound.

"darinhercules" wrote in message
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The one I heard was used, I learned as a nursery rhyme:

All around the mulberry bush,
The monkey chased the weasel,
The monkey thought is was all for fun,
PoP goes the weasel.

Allededly if you did this right, the word POP marked a yard wound.

Our song was

Half a pound of tupperny rice
Half a pound of treacle
That's the way the money goes
POP goes the weasel

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Ophelia wrote:

"darinhercules" wrote in message
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The one I heard was used, I learned as a nursery rhyme:

All around the mulberry bush,
The monkey chased the weasel,
The monkey thought is was all for fun,
PoP goes the weasel.

Allededly if you did this right, the word POP marked a yard wound.

Our song was

Half a pound of tupperny rice
Half a pound of treacle
That's the way the money goes
POP goes the weasel

Our "second verse" was

A penny for a spool of thread
A penny for a needle
That's the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel!

=Tamar

The way I learned this song was

All around the carpenters bench
The monkey chased the weasel
The monkey thought it was all in fun
POP goes the weasel.

A penny for a spool of thread
A penny for a needle
Thats the way the money goes
POP goes the weasel.

Don't know why it was a carpenters bench in my family. LOL
Marie and the cats

Sorry: that should be
All around the COBBLERS bench

Marie and the cats