New knitting

#1

needle and it probably not new
dutch knitting pen
topic found on raverly
cant seem to get any info on it
anyone know anything about this needle
sylvia

#2

I’ve never heard of a dutch knitting pen nor can I see any info on Google. What makes it different than any other needle? A small picture would help.

#3

I’ve never hear of a dutch knitting pen so I’m not much help. Could you post a picture?

Maybe someone will recognize it. Or maybe it goes by another name here is the US.

#4

They’re talking about it in this thread on Ravelry. I haven’t looked in because the post count got way out of hand very fast.

#5

I asked my mother in law who is from Holland and she said that the Dutch call them knitting PINS not needles. She used to knit when she was a girl. I’m going to convince her to take it back up so I have a knitting partner :wink:

#6

They’re sometimes called Pins in the UK too and other countries; when I look on ebay.uk for metric needles, a lot of the listings call them this.

#7

That was interesting. I still can’t figure out how you use it though.

One thing I love about knitting, there is always so new thing to learn. Or new technique to try. I keep a stack of interesting ideas to try out. And when I’m bored with what I’m working on. Or between projects, I pull it out & jump into untried territory.

#8

another neat one is TUNISIAN CROCHET
more a cousin to knitting then the typical crochet.

#9

I think you use it like a crochet hook, but with a different technique. There’s a ravelry group called ‘slip stitch crochet’ where you slip stitch instead of sc/dc and the effect can be like knitting. It’s also called ‘bosnian crochet’. The results look similar to this ‘knit pen’ thing, and btw, I found out ‘pen’ is a Dutch word for ‘needle’

#10

hi
looks like we are all in the same place
i dont know either but i am curious so i will keep looking
sylvia