I’m currently knitting on double pointed needles for the first time!! I’m so excited!!
I finally figured it out!
Congratulations. I prefer dpns over other types of needles. Maybe that’s why I’m fixated on socks.
Aren’t they a blast, they make you feel so accomplished to be manipulating so many needles at once.
I’ve never felt more excited with my knitting before. I’m trying to make a hat and its actually working out. I just hope its big enough…the yarn does have a lot stretch!
I love DPNs, I think even more just because it looks complicated, and it isn’t.
I would knit socks at work, and I would get so many comments about how hard it was…and internally I am snickering saying “not at all”
I love dpns too! LOVE them 
Welcome to the club! 
Yay!!! Good for you 
Oh, I totally get how you feel! I just finished my first pair of socks (my first project using dpn’s!) and I felt so accomplished :woohoo:
I also love my dpns and it is fun going out in public and having people ask, isn’t that hard keeping all those needles straight! Not at all I say, and you always get I could never do that.:roflhard:
So congrats on learning to use your dpns. Now you can make anything you want.
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that’s so cool! i have not yet tried DPN’s…so you have my admiration!
betsey
[SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT="] I’ve been trying to get a grip of those javelins for the vertically-challenged, known by some incurable optimists as DPNs.
The only metal I know of that can travel so far and so fast is a bullet. No sooner had I scooped the stitches back on the three-legged beast (couldn’t get the fourth needle to come out and play at all), than it spun round and headed for the hubby with the deadly accuracy of a heat-seeking missile. (He’ll be okay, thanks – it was mainly the shock to his nervous system that upset him a bit.)
Anyway, onwards and upwards and keep trying – well, that lasted all of five minutes – I mean, it’s one thing to endanger the hubby’s life and limbs but it’s another when Hatty Cat almost got harpooned snoozing on the hearth-rug.
I popped the pesky things into a cupboard – hoping to get them out later when things had settled down a bit - does anyone know how to un-nail a cupboard door?
Yours with goggles and a tin hat.
Ellie
For anybody else rash enough to try their luck with these lethalities – popping children’s plastic beads on the ends of them makes them slightly less anti-social and helps the stitches stay in place.[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE]
:cheering: Congratulations!
Staci~:cheering: congratulations! They are fun, aren’t they?!
Ellie- 
~you’re too funny! Have you tried wooden ones, bamboo or birch? They are much less likely to go shooting through the night to impale unwary by-standers :teehee: And well worth the investment! Good luck, should you choose to accept the Optomists’ DPN Mission yet again :mrgreen:
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Hiya
I’m not too fussed about impaling unwary by-standers 
(anybody comes visiting us deserves all they get) - but I think the DH would be worried about the fire insurance being valid if I used wooden ones.
I’ve given a firm undertaking to climb over the fence at the bottom of the garden and walk out into the middle of the farmer’s field if I ever get the urge to try the :!!!:*!!@@@** things again!!!
I’ve also been banned from going into the pub with the aforementioned paraphernalia, :verysad:as they were giving the Darts Team the jitters and the landlord said he couldn’t afford to keep hiring a plasterer to repair the walls.
For all of you who are using DPN’s as weapons I thought I would share a video I ran across getting help with socks.:oo: These look like deadly weapons.
BTW these were very helpful videos. But every time I watched one I thought of all of you and your flying needles. :mrgreen:
Hi Trisha
Wow, it’s a small world! Dorret lives just about 20 miles from me, and she runs the area SnB.
Many thanks for posting the link - I think it’s always easier to learn something from a video, rather than stills.
What I have found useful is that if you’re sitting in an armchair, to put a tray on your lap[COLOR=Magenta]*[/COLOR] - that way, if one of the needles decides to take a hike, you don’t end up scrabbling around on the floor trying to retrieve it and it increases your cat’s chances of survival with the needle hitting the tray, instead of landing smack between the cat’s ears.
[COLOR=Magenta]* Many Thanks Julie (Momwolf) for the handy tip.
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Ellie
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When I was knitting at school, my friends would all ooh and ahh over how hard knitting was, and my roommate (who was absolutely FASCINATED by my knitting) would always point out to people, “Bobbi is such a good knitter! She just started like a month ago, and she’s using FOUR NEEDLES!” I would always just laugh a little inside as I thought, It’s really not hard at all…
LOL!!
:shock: what??! No PUB knitting?? That doesn’t seem right~after all, they throw DARTS on purpose!! Ah well, perhaps its best…although it might be interesting to see what you end up with after knitting in a pub :teehee:
I’m so jealous!! I haven’t tried DPNs myself (they are a bit intimadating to me yet), but I can’t wait to!! Congrats!
That’s so funny - I actually just watched all 4 parts of her sock videos about 2 weeks ago trying to muster up the courage to try DPNs… I too LOVE her videos!
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Hiya Hilary
I know, it doesn’t seem right banning me with my needles while other people are merrily hurling stuff at a board - but as George, the landlord, pointed out (ouch!) -
“Some people have control over their arrers and they aim AT something. Everybody has to duck when you’re in because there’s just no telling where those things of yours will end up!” I did explain that I don’t aim them at anyone but that seemed to upset him even more!
Claims he found one in the fish tank last week and when his customers come in for a quiet pint and a game of dominoes, they don’t want to be disturbed by one of those '@!@@!! what ja calls ‘em,’ plopping into the bitter.
I think he protests too much - mind you, he was quite nice about the salted nuts explosion on the bar and the jar of pickled eggs going west!