knitters, please join me in my quest for dpns

[FillydoraTonks]

I cannot find anything except bamboo and those absurdly overpriced ones in a tin. I have plenty of tins and I don't need to pay £30 for one.

hmm

will update

[Idreamofdaleks]

what are dpns?

[FillydoraTonks]

[bookthief]

Does that mean double pointed needles? Because I bought mine in John Lewis. I think the make was Pony. Nothing fancy.

[NotQuiteCockney]

I think I have wooden ones by Addi? They are ok, I don't love them. The bamboo ones are a bit rubbish, certainly. I can't stand the plastic ones, though. I might be tempted by metal ones, by Addi.

[Idreamofdaleks]

well why didn't you say!

[bookthief]

McA Direct do Patons aluminium ones for v. little cash.

[FillydoraTonks]

i WANT fancy



I dunno, i can't get on with metal, I find the stitches slip out.

am using bamboo skewers atm and getting splinters, such is my desperation

[Idreamofdaleks]

oi filly britney birch not good enough for you now

[FillydoraTonks]

brittany

I like brittany

but if i am forking out for needles (which feels wrong somehow) I want something posh. i always seem to end up with brittany.

[NotQuiteCockney]

Oh, yes, the slippery thing would be worse with DPNs, good point, I will stick to wood. I've just got on very well with my Addi turbos, they are nothing like normal (cheap) metal needles.

[FillydoraTonks]

oooh these are nice

sadly not in dpns though

[Tatties]

Hey Filly, how are you doing?

I have just knitted my first hat [excited]

[FillydoraTonks]

addis i do kind of like, they are the only ones where the join doesn't drag at all. they are just a bit too slippery. i knit slightly on the loose side (this is a a rxn against my mother, the world's tightest knitter)

[FillydoraTonks]

yay!

go tatties!

my kids are wearing semi-felted strawberry and blackberry hats atm

[bookthief]

Surina dpns

My friend just bought some beautiful Pony Rosewood needles from this site but they don't seem to do dpns (yet?).

[FillydoraTonks]

oooh no they ARE in dpns

ack though. £24.

[Idreamofdaleks]

rosewood but no picture

[FillydoraTonks]

oooh they sound nice

but why are they splitting at the end?

am going to look for a review

[florenceuk]

I;ve got addi bamboo ones, they seem fine eg here.

[bookthief]

\link{http://www.paviyarns.co.uk/shop/423/152/index.htm\Ooh! Yes they do!)

[bookthief]

Here even

[FillydoraTonks]

oh how have i not seen those? are the joins ok?

florence, lol, i am looking for LUXURY

[Idreamofdaleks]

try pure gold

[FillydoraTonks]

nah too slippery

[florenceuk]

after you've splashed out for two sets of addi bamboo circulars in multiple sizes plus dpns in matching sizes, just so you can knit a baby cardigan top down you are slightly worried about going for "luxury"!