[NFB-Krafters-Korner] 2 questions

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Hi Bernice. 
My favorite stitch holder these days is a piece of thin plastic cord.  It
looks like a long piece of spaghetti.  It's a tube, so you can stick a
needle in one end and slip the stitches on or off, but I had trouble with
that sometimes, so I just slip the stitches onto the holder as if I was
slipping them to a needle.  Then I tie the ends of the cord together in a
knot.  I don't pull the knot real tight, because I'll have to untie it, but
I tie it a few times and it stays.  Sorry I don't know what it's called,
though. 

Another kind I have is like a DPN, but it has kind of rubber tracks that run
alongside the needle, and a solid stopper on each end connecting the tracks.
I just slip the stitches onto the DPN needle, attach the tracks, and there
it is.  But the tube kind is much more flexible. 

When I was making the thumb and finger, I used 3 DPN's.  It was simpler than
trying to do Magic Loop with such a small thing.
Tracy


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Subject: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] 2 questions

While making these trigger mittens, I came up with 2 questions.

First, does anybody know about a different style stitch holder than the kind
I have that look like a safety pin without that loop at the closed end. The
ones I have are too bulky, and it makes it hard to work the stitches not on
the holder.

Dixie talked about straitening circular needles once by putting them in hot
water, and then hanging them by one end. I believe this is what she said.
Well, my needles are steel, and I don't think it will work very well with
them, although the cable part isn't steel.

I tried to straiten a couple the way she suggested, but I wasn't very
successful.

Any other ideas, or maybe I'm doing her method incorrectly.

I would use shorter circular needles for mittens, but the really short ones
cramp my hands.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Bernice

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