Options Interchangeable Needles by Knit Picks….

Everyone and their brother now have their own brand of interchangeable needles, from the very first Boye Needlemaster on up through Addi Clicks, Denise, Takumi and of course Knit Picks. But, not everyone has them in the swirling colors of the Harmony Options Set.

Beautiful, smooth sharp tips, made from birch wood are what I’m talking about. Strong, sharp tips capable of knitting lace as well as bulky weight cables. I love to knit with wooden needles, they are just easier on my old farmer, arthritic fingers, with plastic and bone being a close second.

I’ve been knitting up a storm with these, trying out all of the different sizes of needles and cables. The set includes needles sizes 4-11 and has 2-24″ cables and 2-32″ cables. Of course you can hook these cables together and make one very long one. The cables do not have a memory, so they don’t kink. Right out of the package, they are as smooth as can be, and…. people…. they’re PURPLE!!

There are lots of accessories to go with this set, and you can get additional needle tips and cables, with the needles coming in sizes 4-17, and cables in sizes from 24″-60″.

Check them out for yourself, over at Knit Picks, and tell them I sent you! Click HERE!

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As I write this, it’s probably time to start thinking about winter knitting if you haven’t already. And it’s definitely time to think about gift knitting if you have any of that you plan to do for the holidays.

The Dreamy Waves Scarf from Knit Picks, designed by Stacey Winklepleck, would be a great project to go in either category.

It uses two different multicolored yarns and a simple repeating wave pattern to make a project that looks a lot more complicated and dramatic than it is. The gradient look happens naturally just by switching which yarn you’re knitting with.

This pattern uses worsted weight yarn so it’s a pretty quick project even though a scarf is large and this one is pretty wide. It measures 8.5 inches (21.5 cm) wide and 63 inches or 120 cm long. Of course you can make it longer or shorter as you like. As written it takes one ball of each color so it’s a pretty economical project, too.

It’s rated for intermediate knitters but if you know how to do various increases and decreases you’ll be all set. The pattern uses knit 2 together, make 1 left and right, centered double decrease and slip slip knit. All of the stitches are explained in a glossary in the pattern so even if you haven’t done all of them it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.

The pattern also includes tons of options for different colorways in yarn that Knit Picks sells, so you can see how different combinations knit up before you buy the yarn. That’s such a great idea!

Of course if you already have two multicolored yarns with long color runs on hand, you can absolutely use them, too. It might also be fun, but would give you a totally different look, to use a solid color and a bunch of scraps or one multicolored yarn to see how the different colors play together. So many options!

You can grab this free pattern and check out all the color options at Knit Picks.

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