Glass Knitting Needles

Buy/Sell/Swap
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I want, no I NEED GB Glass knitting needles. I bid on a pair on EBay but
lost :frowning: They used to be sellers on Ebay. Once in a while a pair of their
needles comes up for sale, like the ones I didnā€™t win. They are beautiful!
Does anyone know what happened to them? And where else can I get their needles? Thanks, Vera

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I have seen theirs on ebay, but not sure where else you could get that same brand. Check out this link. They have some pretty ones for saleā€¦Also this link. Hope this helpsā€¦ :smiley:

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Wow, those needles are gorgeous!!! I want them too now!! :heart: :heart: :heart:

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I saw some today at a place called Hill Country Weavers in Austin, TX. You can Google the # if you arenā€™t having any luck finding them anywhere else.
Iā€™m a beginning knitter (at age 50, no less!) so I donā€™t quite understand what is so special about them. Are they easier to use?

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I donā€™t think too many people use them. Theyā€™re just so darned pretty!!

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Iā€™d be afraid to break one :shifty:

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Wouldnā€™t that be the irony of a lifetime. You buy glass knitting needles and then cut yourself so badly you canā€™t knit. :rofling:

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:shock: That would be horrible!

I think knitting with glass would be the same as knitting with those thin bamboo knitting needles. Or would glass be stronger? :??

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Iā€™m sure the glass needles are tempered to make them stronger, and I doubt they come too thin, but thatā€™s just my common sense talking.

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They probably are tempered.

If I ever got a pair, they would only be used on special occasions. :wink:

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Cinderella loses her glass needle as she leaves the knitting club.

Prince charming hunts high and low and in every lys for her - all along the way he asks each lady he sees - ā€œpardon me, but do you have a sample of your knitting? I would like the check the gauge.ā€

Alas every sample of knitting he sees is in a gauge just too darn big to be Cinderellaā€™s. But just as he is about to give up he spots one last lys and the rest is a fairy tale ending.

The motto of this tale - ā€œPeople who knit with glass needles should not use yarn made of rocksā€ :happydance:

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:roflhard: :thumbsup: :cheering:

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:roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard:

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I just found what Iā€™m going to knit to keep my glass needles safe. I have 2 pair from GB Glass. I also noticed she hasnā€™t posted any on EBay lately. I have another pair from EBay, although I canā€™t remember from whom. ā€œSplendid Stitichesā€ I think.Theyā€™re all made of borosillicate (ex. Pyrex) so they are quite strudy but Iā€™m sure not completely unbreakable. They are very slippery to knit with. I havenā€™t used them much really, but they do ā€œworkā€ :wink:

Anyhoo, iI have the 2nd issue of Magical Knitting from Cat Bhordi and there are felted needle cozies in it I am going to make for my glass needles.

Hereā€™s a previous post with pics of my glass needles. As I mentioned there, the pics donā€™t do them justice! :heart:

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Do you need a specific gauge? If you could live with ā€œclose enoughā€ I might be able to make some (as soon as I get the ventilation situation in my glass studio straightened out, that is ā€“ not in the next couple of weeks unfortunately). I work boro and soft glass.

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Are you still searching for glass needles? I carry Namaste and they are wonderful!

https://id306.securedata.net/sandrasingh.com/merchantmanager/product_info.php?cPath=108_278&products_id=759

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Iā€™ve got a pair of the Michael and Shiela Ernst ones (that Danielle linked) and I love them!! They have a lifetime warranty, too- if anything happened, Iā€™d just mail it to them, and they would mail it back all fixed, or replaced. So yummy!