Wednesday 31 August 2011

Unusual Tools of the Knitting Trade



When knitting a small object in the round, one could employ the use of double point needles or the Magic Loop method. Both these methods are tried, tested and true. However, in the interests of lateral thinking, thin flexible wire and wire cutters are perfectly capable substitutes as I have found. With a diminishing number of stitches, the end of your ‘needles’ can be clipped shorter and shorter as the work slowly decreases. Not something one can do to laminated birch wood, bamboo or nickel-plated brass. Hah!

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