Hooray! I love 'em! They’re almost like Addi’s, indeed. I’ve only done one swatch with them, but so far I’m very very very happy! Thanks, everybody!
Glad to hear they meet expectations so far. I was nervous ordering the Harmony set, but once I cast on and started knitting I was in love. I then bought the Options dpn sock set and I love them every bit as much. It took about an hour to get used to the shorter length as I had been knitting with 7" needles, but I don’t even notice it now. The socks just speed along and I find I almost always have a pair on the needles now.
yeah – I wouldn’t be disappointed at this point if I’d never gotten the Harmony set…but it won’t hurt me to have them. 
Thanks again!
I thought this might be a good place to post this…My mom sent me a set of Harmony Options for my birthday and they came today!!! I am so excited!!! Yay!!! I wanted to share with you because my DH cannot quite understand why I am so giddy. This is my first set of interchangeables! Yay!!!
Congratulations! Having good tools makes the work so much easier.
Yay! :woohoo:
Honestly, I’m not sure that non-knitters or other non-crafting people can understand unless they also have some kind of craft they do that relies on good tools to give the user an extra edge.
I’ve started likening it to giving a beginning violinist a really awful violin-shaped-object. Most people can understand that one if they’ve ever listened to a beginner trying out a bad fiddle. It just means pain to everyone involved!
ETA: Actually, non-knitting computer geeks [I]can[/I] generally understand it if you ask them to imagine trying to get the job done on a computer from 20 years ago…
Hush your mouth - I was programming 20 years ago.
Of course, I can’t program now… we’re worlds away from Apple BASIC and LOGO.
Hey, tell me I’m wrong, Trish. 
Okay, here’s a definite downside to the KP – I can just barely squeak this sleeve onto the smallest cable. They have GOT to get a smaller cable out!
Did someone say that there’s a way to cut the cable and glue it back shorter?
Hmph.
No, you’re not. It’s just kinda sad that my former-computer-geek-self (BASIC, Pascal, COBOL, C++) is so far behind the times now. Similar to my Arabic skills - but those were never stellar to begin with.
btw Zina, do you ever sleep? Given that you’re 5 hours ahead of me, your energy is astounding.
I’m actually in bed as I’m not feeling well! Knitting, of course. What else is there to do? Well, read, I suppose, and surf the Net. Right now, with new yarns to play with and swatch, knitting wins.
My partner works customer support for the States, so we’re generally up until about 3 am, and then I sleep until about 10 or 11 to try and get in the full 7-8 hours. (Without which, I am a zombie.)
I don’t know if cutting the cable and regluing it would work. The reason they don’t make the smaller sizes is because it doesn’t work with the size of the tips. However, I always use some version of the magic loop when I knit in the round, lately. If you have too many stitches for a full magic loop then just slide the stitches on your right hand needle down onto the cable to relax your stitches a bit, and then knit around.
I reaalllyy want to try lace knitting, so I’m glad to know there are needles made especially for this purpose. One of these days I need to pull the trigger.
It seems like a lot of lace patterns mainly call for very thin gauge yarns on medium-ish sized needles. I believe what’s mainly important is a fairly sharp tip, which you can find on a number of tips, notably KPs and Addi’s, and a grippy feel to the needle (usually best found on wood or plastic, which is why the Addi lace needles have a special coating on the tips). (There’s a KnittersReview on Addi lace needles here.) Nevertheless, I’ve gone ahead and collected the smallest Addi circs, especially in lace needles, I can find, because I’ve found them to be so useful. I had some problems with a particularly sticky coating on only one set of Addi circs, but I’m assuming this is a bit of a fluke, because the others don’t have the same sticky feel.
I like knitting fine gauge yarns, so far, although they can make a project feel snail-paced. Sometime soon I want to order some cashmere cobweb yarn and experiment.
Okay. I’ve had a chance to sit and work with all of my needles on the same yarn (a ribbon yarn, a bit difficult to work with, catches on everything including sharp points, my fiddle callouses, etc. – I’m going to wear this, how? 
), as I work on the different bits of the [I]Louisa[/I] project.
I actually wrote this on another thread, but will duplicate it here in the rather unlikely case of someone being interested in how I’ve made out so far with the needles.
I’m working between different sets of 8mm/11 needles right now on the same yarn (doing different bits of the lace tunic). The KP Nickels are the slickest, which is making it easy to move this rather difficult ribbon yarn about, in fact, almost too easy for control as I’m still a beginning knitter. The Addi’s are a bit more grabby, but the points aren’t as sharp – useful, because this yarn doesn’t so much split as catch on anything it can. The Harmony set is the grabbiest of them all and so are taking a bit more effort to knit on, but the sharp points are lovely and it’s quite easy to control the yarn.
The Harmony needles are a lot slicker than my Lantern Moon needles, which are very grabby and have a grainy feel to the knit. The LM’s will be useful, I think, when I need complete control over the yarn and can deal with the blunter tip.
:teehee: That’s a new one on me. It’s also how I feel about buying my first set of interchangeables. Haven’t made up my mind on which set yet. Must check into the Click set of Addi circs.
I love my Denise interchangeables more each time I use them. Another benefit to me as a continental knitter is that the tips are softer, so I don’t get a sore finger from pushing the stitches off the left needle. Also, since I didn’t learn to knit until after I developed some arthritis in my hands, I find that the stitches move more easily along the needles than with the bamboo ones I used to use. However, metal needles move so easily for me that I have to grip them more to keep the stitches from falling off, which hurts my hands after a while. I envy you younger knitters who don’t have to deal with arthritis yet!!
One thing that made it much less painful for me on metal needles was to learn to push, not on the tip of the needles, but on the [I]side[/I] of the tip of the needles, pushing towards the other needle rather than down, so that the angle of the tip would force the needle down, rather than pressure on the tip of the needle pushing it down. I suppose you could call it “working with the ergonomics of the needle”.
Biztec-
i’m with you! i really do love my denise set…i bought it this summer, right after i knit my first scarf <g>. for me, it was a matter of a very good lys owner showing me how they work, and why she liked them…and then letting me knit with them in her shop. being such a newbie to knitting, i didn’t quite trust mail ordering options, as i had no idea what to look for.
so far, i’m very pleased. perhaps in the future i’ll buy a set of options, but haven’t seen them in person to eye ball them yet!
betsey