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Supersize my knits
Posted: Friday, May 23, 2008 by Laura
Filed under On The Needles
As soon as these awesome 15mm wooden needles arrived at LK HQ I just had to get my hands on them!
These fab needles will be FREE with Let’s Knit Issue 9 (on sale 11th July) and I simply couldn’t wait to try them out!
There is something very exciting about BIG needles – of course there is the appeal that you can whizz up something really quickly. And, with all the delicious chunky weight yarn available you really are spoilt for choice!! But what I love most about supersize needles is the wide range of knitty-possibilities that suddenly open up. I love experimenting with different weight yarns to see what effects can be made!
I have had this hand-dyed skein of silk and merino blend in my stash for a while but had no idea what to use it for. It seemed that this lovely yarn was destined to spend the rest of eternity being taken out of the yarn mountain sporadically, given a loving squeeze and then put back. Then it hit me...why not use this luscious yarn with these mega big needles? Well, I couldn’t think of any reason not to, so I have something new and exciting to work on!
What’s better than chunky new needles to play with?
Having a three day Bank Holiday weekend to cram in stacks of knitting time – WooHoo!
Peeps comments
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suse 05/25 at 03:18 PM
cant wait to get them!
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knitternicky 05/29 at 09:57 AM
Yey a size thats missing out of my needle bagssss. Hope there will be some fab patterns to go with the pins.
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