hey looky what i made!!!
one of my needles n the cirs is kind of off. it is hard to get them perfectly the same!
Wow that looks great!
I’ve been away for the forum all summer so I must not have met you when you joined. I recognized your paper though and thought “that looks familiar!!” I live in High Ridge, not too far from you 
Hey koolbreeze those turned out neat!! I started making some the week before but my DPNs had to be careful with size 3 one broke during the sanding process 
lol I can’t find a rod to make size 5 DPNs. How did you get the circulars? I made reg. needles too and gonna put a little painted thingy on top when I get back to them :rollseyes:
I’m impressed!!! I would never attempt circulars. :happydance:
i changed my name from cpolitte. i rememeber you.
dustin~ i almost had to make some that small, but my grandmother gave me hers!!
i got the idea from herehttp://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=6638.0
Ingrid~ they are EASY to make!!!
Wow!!! That just rocks!! Someday I shall make them. My only dilemma is how do you make your wood smooth where the yarn won’t have too much friction and not such a steep hike over the tip? Did that make sense?
Wow!! That is just too cool!
hmmmm. i think i understood…extra fine sand paper. i don’t like reallysmooth needlesthough so i left them a little rough. but not a whole lot. thanks
~update~ i colored them with ink and i’m not sure it won’t come off later so i coverd them with Aleene’s Tacky glue. but its not tacky at all and it makes them smoother too.
Brilliant! Very nice job. :cheering:
thanks Silver! that means a lot coming from you! :notworthy:
I have been working on this problem for a while and just can’t seem to get it! :wall: How exactly did you do the smooth connection between the needle and the weed wacker cord? What am I missing?
Question #2 – How did you color the needles? I am sorry to be so dense :help:
THanks a lot! and if the answers are just so obviously obvious, you could PM me to avoid boring the rest of the board to death…
Karen W
Hey we all start somewhere!! i don’t mind answering questions.
i tapered the wood down as close as i could get it to the weed wacker cord with the dremel (fine sanding head) then i used Aileen’s Tacky glue. i brushed a glob of it around the wood and the cord and it just smoothed itself out.
i don’t know it you want to try this but i used stamping ink to color them with. it was all i had! :oops: i think i’m going to try colored wood stain next.
hopes this helps!!! and good luck! 
Wow those look great! I’m not that talented yet!
I’m totally wanting to make some knitting needles now!! 
I’ve never seen anyone making their own circs–and it’s fascinating!! We have such a great talented group. 
And they all love to share ideas-
it’s so wonderful, I’d like to say
THANKS, AMY!!! for giving us KnittingHelp.com!!:happydance: :happydance: 
Thanks for link!! I don’t know when I’ll get brave enough to try the cir. LOL I have knitted with any of mine but they feel pretty smooth I gradually went down to fine paper and with the left over rod I made cables although I haven’t ever done anything that calls for cables but I want to LOL… Its a great idea esp. when you can get the rod for so cheap means more money for my yarn which it needs it :rollseyes:
i can do stuff like this better than i can knit. thats why i was so quick to do them! but they are fairly easy!!! EVERYONE should do at least one! :happydance:
here they r dry
LOVE the circs… I was just batting that around in my head the other day…Nice to see that great minds think alike!!
BTW, tried out my crayon-colored needles the other day with some white yarn - no problem! The color didn’t transfer at all (most of it gets rubbed off when you polish them, but I was still a little worried)… And they were sooo much smoother than the oiled ones…
Are those circs painted, or lacquered? I know you said you used ink (??right?) but they look so shiny…( [size=2]edited… Tacky Glue, gotcha :rollseyes: I need to read a little slower, apparently.[/size]…)
That’s so kewl, koolbreeze!! You inspire me to want to make a set of dpns!
well the glue wasn’t slick enough so i sanded it off. what did you use to polish them? i was looking thou my stash of wood stuff and i don’t have anything! i thought about lacquar but didn’t have any on hand. crayon… now u know u have tell how u did them… i have plenty of crayons!!! and we need pics! :lol:
Here’sanother thread misstialouise started on handmade needles, where I explained how I colored them.
I usually rub mine w/Old English (oil furniture polish) but I read somewhere on here that food-grade mineral oil (the kind you treat your butcher block with) works really well too.
The crayon ones were a little sticky at first, but I knitted a bunch with some acrylic yarn, and they smoothed right out.