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Jamie Possum are dedicated to bringing you the best products to enhance your knitting experience, which is why we offer the classic elegance of Brittany Birch Knitting Needles, the sheer breathtaking flexibility of Denise Interchangeable Circular Knitting Needle Sets and Accessories, and the ultimate 'cool' in bags, the lip-smacking KnitOne range.
 | Brittany Birch Knitting Needles
Why buy Brittany needles and hooks? Probably the best reason has to do with the benefits of wood. Wood is warm, smooth and soft. It won't drain heat from sensitive fingers the way aluminium and plastic needles do. Brittany has received many comments from people with arthritis and their doctors indicating that they wouldn't be knitting if it wasn't for wooden needles.
Birch is a superior wood for this purpose. Its tensile strength and stability maintains size, resists warping and allows for extraordinary smoothness of finish. Wood is our greatest renewable natural resource. It is environmentally friendly, recyclable, biodegradable and durable. When it is no longer needed it can be returned to the earth. All wood used by Brittany comes from strictly regulated forests or small woodland in the United States whose owners ensure proper environmental logging practices and selective cutting for maximum reforestation. |
| [ekm]59x80[ekm].jpg) | Denise Interchangeable Circular Knitting Needle Kits
Do your circular knitting needles bunch up the work (or let the work slip off entirely) when it gets large? Have you invested in interchangeable circular knitting needles, but the tips keep coming unscrewed in the bottom of you bag? Then you need Denise Interchangeable Knitting Needles. Make a pair of matching circular needles out of one kit! If you want a pair of circular needles in the same size, just use the correct size tip on the end held by your right hand. Use a smaller size tip on the left side. This works because your gauge is determined entirely by the right hand tip, which receives the loop and whose circumference determines its size.
Tight knitters can knit more easily! If you are a tight knitter and have to work to get the stitches moving along your left needle, just replace it with a smaller size, going down as many as 3 or 4 sizes if you like. See above for an explanation of why this will not change your gauge; only make your knitting easier. Incidentally, this will work in circular knitting only. In rows, you would have to keep switching the tips, making certain you always had the larger tip in the right hand (which you could do).
Whoops! Got to start over now it’s easier! Something went wrong, but you’ve only knit a few rounds or rows, and you’re glad you caught the mistake. Just remove the tip from one end of the cable and all your stitches will slide off so fast you won’t believe it. Unravel, and start fresh.
The cure for uneven stockinette! Many knitters purl more loosely than they knit. This results in uneven stockinette. But with Denise needles, all you have to do is use a smaller tip on the purl side of the circular needle. Do some experimenting, and find out if you need to go down 1, 2, or even 3 sizes. It will vary depending on the yarn and gauge.
Applied I-cord a handy tool just the right size! I use a lot of applied I-cord and it is most easily done with a short straight needle. If you have a Denise kit, you have a nice assortment of very short straight needles, that is, all the tips. Just push a rubber needle tip protector on the bottom of the tip to give your very short needle a nice comfy base, and you’ll find it is a great tool for applied I-cord. |
|  | KnitOne Knitting Bags
Knitone knitting bags are handmade from luxurious and fun fabrics. They are sleek yet roomy – and each Knitone knitting bag includes a matching accessory pouch to hold round needles, tape measures, needle gauges, scissors, tapestry needles, stitch markers, crochet hooks and other knitting tools. Measuring variously 17 ½” x 5 ½ " (45.5cm x 14cm) and 19" x 7" (48cm x 17.5cm), these knitting bags provide plenty of room for your knitting project, pattern, extra yarn, pin cushion and straight needles. They’re also perfect for needlepointing projects! |
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