needles

Addi SOS …

[Translate] You might remember a series of posts I did a while back on interchangeable circular needles. I pointed out the pros and cons of some of the most popular circular needles on the market. One of my main critiques was that a lot of the companies seemed to be missing one major thing in their kits. Of course they all had the basics, which were needles, cables, and connectors. But then one would be missing different materials in their needles, and another had limited sizes, and so on. I kept looking for one company to put it all […]

Enie, Meenie, Minie, Mo …

[Translate] Grab a needle … and off you go! Well in this case, it’s grab 4 needles – or 5 if you’re a purist. Yes, today we tackle knitting with double pointed needles. If you remember the last post, we talked about knitting in the round using one circular needle. Now knitting with just one circular needle is great, as long as you have enough stitches to go around the length of needle you’re using. But what do you do when you start decreasing on that hat you’re making? Or those socks, or the cuffs on the sleeve you’re […]

Round and round we go …

[Translate] My apologies to everyone who tried to view this in the last few days. My site was down due to an upgrade of the hard drives by my ISP, but unfortunately, the hard drive with my website on it had some issues and needed a recovery from backup files. As a result, my website along with some others were unavailable all weekend. The good news is I’m back! Yeah! So now it’s time to March into spring … sorry, I had to! Even though I’ll be working on an unspringlike project. Remember the sweater that we started designing […]

Consider your Options …

[Translate] If you’re going to buy needles and don’t know where to start, my advice would be to get the longest circular needle you can. In the case of this review, it’s a 47″ circular needle from the Knit Picks Options Interchangeable Needle sets. You’ll remember that I did a review of some interchangeable circulars a while back. At the time, I didn’t do the Options needles from Knit Picks. Well, the other day I was in need of some needles (yes Anne, it’s really true) and I took my own advice. I got some circulars in a 47″ […]

And the winner is …

[Translate] Okay, so they say better late than never, and I’m going to stick with that for now ;-). In actuality, I did the draws for the winners of the needles on Sunday, but am just getting to the blog post today. Sorry, see my last post for my reasons (as lame as they are). Anyway, I have the winners of the needles, and the person who gets a donation made to a charity or non-profit organization of their choice in their name. The contest raised $116.58 and I will contribute the difference to make it an even $150.00. […]