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

what are dpns?

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

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.

well why didn't you say!

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

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

oi filly britney birch not good enough for you now

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.

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.

oooh these are nice

sadly not in dpns though

Hey Filly, how are you doing?

I have just knitted my first hat [excited]

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)

yay!

go tatties!

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

Surina dpns

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

oooh no they ARE in dpns

ack though. £24.

rosewood but no picture

oooh they sound nice

but why are they splitting at the end?

am going to look for a review

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

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

Here even

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

florence, lol, i am looking for LUXURY

try pure gold

nah too slippery

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"!