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12" knitting needle question
I am thinking about ordering some 12 inch knitting needles to make some baby
hats. Has anyone used them? And how did they like them? I use double point needles, but have a problem of dropping stitches which irritates me to no end, so thought these might be useful up to the point where you get less stitches on the needles and have to go the double point. Or would it be better to just use an additional double point needle to have less stitches on each needle. |
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12" knitting needle question
starla torres wrote:
I am thinking about ordering some 12 inch knitting needles to make some baby hats. Has anyone used them? And how did they like them? I use double point needles, but have a problem of dropping stitches which irritates me to no end, so thought these might be useful up to the point where you get less stitches on the needles and have to go the double point. Or would it be better to just use an additional double point needle to have less stitches on each needle. Have you thought of using a longer needle and doing Magic Loop, or using 2 needles? sue |
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12" knitting needle question
I've never tried that. I have a website that shows how. Would that be
easier "suzee" wrote in message ... starla torres wrote: I am thinking about ordering some 12 inch knitting needles to make some baby hats. Has anyone used them? And how did they like them? I use double point needles, but have a problem of dropping stitches which irritates me to no end, so thought these might be useful up to the point where you get less stitches on the needles and have to go the double point. Or would it be better to just use an additional double point needle to have less stitches on each needle. Have you thought of using a longer needle and doing Magic Loop, or using 2 needles? sue |
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12" knitting needle question
starla torres wrote:
"suzee" wrote in message ... starla torres wrote: I am thinking about ordering some 12 inch knitting needles to make some baby hats. Has anyone used them? And how did they like them? I use double point needles, but have a problem of dropping stitches which irritates me to no end, so thought these might be useful up to the point where you get less stitches on the needles and have to go the double point. Or would it be better to just use an additional double point needle to have less stitches on each needle. Have you thought of using a longer needle and doing Magic Loop, or using 2 needles? I've never tried that. I have a website that shows how. Would that be easier It is; many people that use such short circs say their hands cramp up because the needles have to be so short for the cord to be long enough to curve around. sue |
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12" knitting needle question
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:31:17 -0800, "starla torres"
wrote: I am thinking about ordering some 12 inch knitting needles to make some baby hats. Has anyone used them? And how did they like them? I use double point needles, but have a problem of dropping stitches which irritates me to no end, so thought these might be useful up to the point where you get less stitches on the needles and have to go the double point. Or would it be better to just use an additional double point needle to have less stitches on each needle. Have you considered the Magic Loop option? Can feel a touch weird when you start, but once you get the hang of it, you can do anything in size from the center of a knit-in-the-round-and-outward hat or doily to watch caps that decrease down to a section where the center is grafted together with the Kitchener Stitch, to socks, etc. I'm currently doing a pair of toe-up socks on a 47" Addi Lace that I'm rotating the socks on-and-off the cable needle depending on which sock I'm currently working on (the resting sock is on KnitPicks wood double-points--both the cable and dpns are US Size 0 {2.00 mm}) since I didn't quite feel up to the challenge of doing both socks on one needle at the moment since I was experimenting with different cast-ons for the toes (one was cast-on with Judy Becker's Magic Cast-on, and the other with a Turkish cast-on) and had to start over when a test fitting showed that the standard 12-stitch-per-side cast-on was too narrow and pointy for my wide blunt foot, and I had to go to 20-stitches-per-side cast on. It's also easier with a 100 gram/400 meter ball of sock yarn (Cascade Heritage) to do one sock at a time instead of dealing with the resulting tangles and twists because one of the socks is pulling yarn from the outside of the ball and the other is pulling yarn from the center of the ball. Next time I'll try to plan ahead and ball the hank into 2 50-gram balls or just get two hanks of identical yarn and plan for 4 socks. Pat in North Carolina |
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