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Knowledge about Knitting Needles,other Tools and Supply

by Hong(Lisa) of 8Season

Knitting needle

What is your knitting project now? A scarf for your mother or a baby blanket? And which is your favorite knitting needle? Here are knitting needles come in various materials, sizes and types to accommodate your projects. Meanwhile some knitting supplies to facilitate your job.

Knitting has gain great popularity among people from all walks of life. It can not only exercise the fingers flexibility but also help the people to focus attention, so knitting has even been compared to yoga. It causes the children’s mind to be concentrated and brain to be vivid. For the adult it is a good way to relax moods, ease work pressure. For elder they can pass their time through knitting thereby drive away the loneliness.

The reason for different patterns of knitted garments is the use of different knitting needles. There are many different shapes of knitting needles to accommodate the knitter’s require, and they come in different materials and sizes.

Single pointed needle

Single pointed needle is commonly used for making the flat or quadrate knitting pieces such as scarf, the baby blankets. It is a straight stick tapered to a point at one end with a cap at the other end to prevent the stitches from sliding. So the single pointed needle allows you to knit whenever and wherever even when you are watching television. The single pointed needle can be made with various materials and bamboo is the main products. They are strong, smooth, and comfortable to hold.

Double pointed needle

The double pointed needle (also called “dpn”) is tapered to point at both ends compared with the single pointed needle. Besides the circular needle, the double pointed needle is as well used in knitting the tubular knitted articles like socks, mittens and hats the sort of small circular knitting. Usually it needs at least four or five pieces to finish an item. The double pointed needle is made of the similar material to the single pointed needle. When purchasing needles, it is important to consider the length and diameter of the needle. To a certain extent, the diameter of a needle affects the size of a stitch that ultimately affects the elasticity of your projects.  

Circular knitting needle

Circular knitting needle is invented according to the knitters’ request for extra-large sizes. It is made up of two short knitting needles which connected by a cable. The common materials for circular needle are bamboo resembles our products and our cable is a strand of plastic cord. As the name suggested, the circular knitting needle is used to create the pieces which are circular, such as hats, sleeves, body of sweaters, necks, socks as well as other tube-shaped garments.

Using a circular needle can keep the stitches stable. You can knit everywhere even in the dark environment without fearing of the stitches sliding from the needle. Mainly of the garment weight will be distributed by the cable, thus to relax your arm and wrist stress especially for hours knitting. If you want to avoid the seam in the end of your task, circular needle will also be a good enough choice. While you should take consideration of the cord length when choose a circular knitting needle based on the circumference of your project.

Bamboo crochet hook

The bamboo crochet hook is another knitting device differs from the acrylic and metallic hook for our customers’ specific needs. Whether you are a knitting beginner or a veteran, you are of course need a best tool at least it should be easily using. Bamboo is as well an ideal material for the crochet hook because it is warm and smooth to touch. It can absorb the sweat or natural oil from your hand thus prevents the hook slipping from your hand. The bamboo crochet hook is slippery caused the yarn could pass through the hook freely. The garments knitted by bamboo crochet hook will be soft and static-free, which is safe and environment friendly. The size of the bamboo crochet hook is engraved on each handle, so you will know the dimension of the hook at all time even if the package is lost.

Acrylic crochet

This acrylic crochet, as its name revealed, is made of acrylic. It’s just the material caused the crochet lightweight, so the acrylic crochet is an ideal tool for the beginner. Our acrylic crochets come in assorted colors with oblate handles for easy using. This can prevent your fingers sliding. Do you want to crochet a hat, a coat or a pair of slippers for your family? Keep in your mind that everything can be crocheted by a crochet hook, like earrings, Christmas tree, flowers, bags, any things you can image. Everything came in your mind. Only one acrylic crochet hook is enough.

Aluminum crochet hook

It is made from aluminum alloy. Aluminum crochet hooks is well known for its smooth and durable property. These not only allow the yarn slide on and off the hook effortlessly, but also ensure the hook strong enough without breaking after long-term using. And the handle is shaped flat in the middle for easy to hold, you just need to seize it gently in your hand. Generally aluminum crochet hooks are ranged from 2.5mm to 10mm; the sizes of the hook are selected to match the thickness of the yarn.

Other Knitting Supplies

Even a knitting master will meet some problems during finishing a project. Knitting supplies aimed to provide a series of tools to facilitating your project so that your knitting can be quick and easy. Many devices are designed for your advanced knitting. In fact there are countless knitting accessories; and the category is ever-increasing.

Point protector

Protect the point of your needle; place the point protector in the end of the needle when your work stops. This can ensure you needle tips without damaging. While it can avoid the stitches drop off.

Stitch holder

The stitch holder looks like the traditional safety pin. It is used to hold the stitches in front or back of the main body which you want to knit later. Especially when knit the neck portion, you will find that some stitch holders is essential.

Cable stitch needle

Our cable stitch needle is a double pointed needle which is bending in the middle. It is perfectly used in knitting complicated patterns. Put the stitches on the bend section can also keep the stitches from sliding off.

Row counter

Row counter, also named knitting register, is used to counter the umber of the rows or the stitches of each row. It is tubbiness with dial to record the stitches you have knitted. A row counter is useful in beginning your work after a pause.

Stitch marker

Stitch marker, made out of plastic, is great for the color knitting. Here place stitch markers on where you want to add colorful stitches or other patterns. In addition, stitch markers are helpful in holding your pieces in alignment.

Scissors

The scissors is used to snip off the odds and ends. There are two kinds of scissors, the gold-plated Dragon phoenix sharp scissors and the mini scissors knitting embroidery nail, for you to choose from owing to your personal preference.

Tape measure

Tape measure is another must-have for the knitters. You can use it to measure the length of back waist, sleeve length and the head circumference. Use the tape measure to check your knitting process. Sometimes a knitter need to how long the fabric (particularly a scarf) they have knitted frequently.

Knitting needle case

How do you keep your needle before? Leave it as it is. So you have to find your entire house for a pair of the same under the sofa or at the bottom of your bed. It is a waste of time and energy. Sometimes it will do damage to your needle. Now a knitting needle case with some individual pockets so that you can put your needle in size order. If they are not in use, you can roll up them as a bundle which is portable and tidy.

The property of knitting needle case:

It is made of good quality silk with exquisite patterns comprising the Chinese feature as well the history of Silk Road. As the Olympic game is approaching day by day, a silk knitting needle case will give an in-depth understanding of Chinese culture for the China fans. I really love our soft and smooth silk knitting needle case especially the patterns with distinctive Chinese characteristics.