circular needles

It’s Magic …

Well, not really, but it is called the Magic Loop! The ML is another way of using 1 circular needle to knit in the round. Unlike the first method we looked at though, using this technique removes the limit you have on the number of stitches you can knit. You can knit as few stitches as you need to in the round using this technique. The one catch to it though is that you need to have a cable needle with a really long cable. As a matter of fact, don’t even think about using a cable needle less than […]

Round and round we go …

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 about […]

Consider your Options …

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″ length. […]

And the winner is …

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. So […]

Well This is Embarrassing …

So, yeah … I’ve been running a contest for over a week now and my stats tell me that lots of people have viewed the post,yet there are very few who have entered. As a result, the amount of money raised that will be donated to a charity is very small. At this point its under $100. Yes, that’s good news for the few that are in as their odds of winning one of the two sets of needles are much better, but it’s not so great for the charity or non-profit organization that will benefit from it. Maybe […]