Freestyle Needles
Freestyle Needle Tips
$40.00
Our new freestyle hexagonal knitting needle is a warm and ergonomic alternative to a metal needle. The needles are ultra lightweight and ultra smooth and made from a 100% USA made, recycled natural material. The needles are harder and slicker than the maple hardwood, the smoothest version of our wood needles. Your hands will experience the same easy grip and warmth of wood for comfort and stress free knitting. Growing up as a competitive figure skater I loved the freedom of freestyle from the technical school figure regimen. Just like a skater excited to be stepping out onto clean ice, your cast on is an exciting clean slate of creativity. Our new freestyle needles will skate through your yarn with precision and flair.
Discover your freestyle! Enjoy!
This pair of Freestyle Needle Tips only is available in US sizes 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
Description
Product Information
- The hexagonal shape provides multiple resting points for your fingers
- No need to grip the needle tightly to have control of the needles
- Yarn rests on the outer points of the hex shape, this keeps your stitch gauge true to size
- Flat side of the hexagonal shape is just underneath the yarn giving you a little extra room to easily slide your needle under the yarn to pick up your stitch
- Knitting multiple stitches together or knitting into the front and back of a stitch has never been easier
- You receive a very even tension and a crisply defined stitch
- Circulars have a very smooth join that swivels
- Made from North American hardwoods from sustainable forests in the Great Lakes region, walnut, cherry and maple
- 100% natural beeswax finish, containing no petroleum products
Made in Michigan – Made in the USA
Wood Options & Characteristics
We handcraft our hexagonal knitting needles using three sustainable North American hardwoods; walnut, cherry and maple. The maple is the lightest in color, the strongest, and when we hand sand the needles, because of the dense wood grain, it polishes up to be the slickest of the three woods. The maple will never be as slick as a metal needle and the hexagonal shape keeps the stitches where you want them to be. The cherry wood is a medium honey color and is the middle range of slickness, and the walnut is the darkest color, chocolate like, and has the most grab. All three woods are smooth and the differences are fairly minor. The size 2 is our smallest size and we can only make the size 2’s in the maple wood. Sizes 3, 4 and 5 we make in maple and cherry, and the size 6 and larger we can add in the walnut. We use 100% natural Michigan beeswax to condition the wood during the sanding process. There are no laminates or toxic finishes.
