Knitting Needle Alternative: Chubby Pencils
I got psyched by the suggestion of using chop sticks as knitting needles and used the round Korean ones with the pointed tips - but the resulting gauge was really too small to make a narrow scarf out of the ball of bargain fun fur I had picked up. ($1!) I looked at needles in the craft store, but $6-7 for wooden sticks? That's all they are really. I was racking my brain to think of another alternative and then it struck me, Chubby pencils! I bought 4 for $1.99 and put clear tape on the sharpened end to make them slippery and VOILA!
A pair of "knitting needles" quite adequate for my knitting experiment at $.50 a pair, not $5.00 plus. Might be good for kids, too. Although knitting snobs may have heart attacks.
By Pamphyila
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09/24/2008
A knitting instructor at A.C. Moore told me to make my own knitting needles by purchasing small wooden dowels and sharpening them with a pencil sharpener. Haven't tried it, but as long as you have a gauge to determine the equivalent size, it should work. Good luck. raneydaze
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