{"id":667,"date":"2007-05-07T20:17:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T10:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=667"},"modified":"2007-05-07T20:17:56","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T10:17:56","slug":"667","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The shawl doesn’t look like there’s much going on, but there is, I swear!
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\nRow 77 of the edging. Only 15 edging rows to go, then 5 rows before the center square.
\nThen 3 more borders. Ouch.
\nIn other news, my Addi Lace needle arived today. I got it from the USA, because as far as I know, they’re not available in Australia yet. With postage, it came out to around $AU21 for the needle.
\nAs soon as I got home, I knit my shawl onto it from the Knitpicks options needle. (Available in Australia from Donni<\/a>, for $AU9.70).
\nBoth of my needles are 2.5mm (US1), and are 80cm long. The Addi is the gold needle, the Knitpicks is the silver.
\nFirst off, the tips.
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\nThe Knitpicks are a little pointier than the Addis. Not a whole lot, but for cobweb yarn, the pointier needle does make a difference for stitches like K2tog.
\nThe needle part itself is fractionally longer in the Knitpicks than the Addi, but not enough that you actually notice the difference.
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\nThe point does taper a little more in the Knitpicks, too.
\nI didn’t take a picture of the cables, but both cables are nice and flexible. Whilst knitting, they’re much the same, but if you’re playing with them, the Knitpicks cable is a bit more flexible.
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\nHowever, the Addi needle is lighter than the Knitpicks needle.
\nThe Knitpicks needle is more slippery than the Addi. The Shetland cobweb yarn is a “sticky” yarn, so it doesn’t make much difference to me, but if I was using Alpaca or something similar, I’d probably go for the Addi.
\nOverall? I like the pointier tip of the Knitpicks, but I like the lightness of the Addi. If I was using slippery yarn, I’d like the surface of the Addi, but with the yarn I’m using, the Knitpicks is fine.
\nTaking the price into consideration, I could buy two Knitpicks needles for the cost of one Addi Lace needle.
\nI’d stick with the Knitpicks needle overall, I think. Unless I was using slippery yarn. That said, I love them both, and I’ll probably end up with a full set of both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The shawl doesn’t look like there’s much going on, but there is, I swear! Row 77 of the edging. Only 15 edging rows to go, then 5 rows before the center square. Then 3 more borders. Ouch. In other news, my Addi Lace needle arived today. I got it from the USA, because as far […]<\/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-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","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=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}