{"id":434,"date":"2005-10-25T14:56:22","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T04:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=434"},"modified":"2005-10-25T14:56:22","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T04:56:22","slug":"434","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Australian Knitblogger friend<\/a> asked me to flash my needle stash. It was harder and more time consuming than I thought. I never had any idea that I have so many needles!!
\nLets start at the beginning.
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\nMy straights. These very rarely see the light of day. I had a big clean out of them a while back, but I kept some. My Grandma taught me how knit when I was around 5 or so. I vaguely remember my mother teaching me to cast on and off, that was probably around the same time. (She died when I was 8). My sister taught me to purl, although she swears now that she doesn’t even know how. I remember taking some knitting to my Grandma when I was quite young, upset that I couldn’t work out rib. I was teaching myself, but I was taking the yarn over the needle instead of under it as I went from knit to purl.
\nAnyway, my point is that most of these were my Grandmothers or my Nanas. The tortoise shell and the anodised ones are years<\/i> old. So I keep these for sentimental value.
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\nMy wooden straights. I don’t use these often either, but more often than the other straights. For some reason I like to knit baby clothes on bamboo straights. All my scarves are worked on wooden straights, usually my Lisa G<\/a> needles.
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\nAren’t they pretty? I have another pair, currently holding my poor Branching Out scarf which is desperately seeking my attention.
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\nOh, and Em’s needles. The vast majority of these were mine.
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\nThat’s an Imogen doll from AK Traditions<\/a> in the background. She came with a kit to knit her a wardrobe. Last Christmas. Well, at least it’s summer again and she isn’t getting cold \ud83d\ude09
\nEm has more of my needles, but they’re under the bed<\/b>.(Insert ominous music). They’ll never see the light of day again \ud83d\ude09
\nEm doesn’t like circs!
\nMoving on.
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\nSock needles! 2mm Crystal Palace bamboo (minus 1), Clover bamboo 2.25mm, Tulip bamboo 2.25mm and Pony Pearls 2mm – 3mm visible here. I also have
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\n2mm Rosewood DPNS holding Lorna’s sock number 2. And
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\n2mm Crystal Palace (full set) and 2mm Brittany Birch (minus 1) holding the Vanalinn glove. I like the Brittany Birch, but I break them. My favourite sock needles are currntly the Rosewoods, but I like the Crystal Palace too.
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\nAll my other DPNS. I have every size DPNS from 2mm – 8mm. Some have never been used, but I picked up a big bundle of the plastic ones as a pack on eBay.
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\nCircs! Every size from 2mm – 12mm, except 2.25mm and 8mm. The Addi bamboo is the current favourite. Favourites are generally the Addi’s, but I do like bamboo needles. Oh, and there is another one on the Mystery Shawl 2.
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\nI think that’s it! I love needles, can you tell? I’m going to teach myself 2 socks on 2 circs sometime soon, so I’ll probably buy more then \ud83d\ude09
\nDespite the number of needles I have, I still find there are ones I don’t have, as evidenced by the Feather and Fan shawl. But yeah, I have a few.
\nSo – share your needle stash!! Leave your links in the comments \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another Australian Knitblogger friend asked me to flash my needle stash. It was harder and more time consuming than I thought. I never had any idea that I have so many needles!! Lets start at the beginning. My straights. These very rarely see the light of day. I had a big clean out of them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}