Square knitting needles
When buying new needle tips of the company KnitPro (at FM already mentioned and presented several times) I was recommended instead of the conventional round needle tips but try out the times, which are square in cross-section, that is square: yes, square! I started at first, but then let myself be infected by the described positive knitting attempts and bought just those.
My personal experiences are these:
The so-called .CUBICS (this is the name of this series) are also made of birch wood, so light, flawlessly smooth in the surface and are warm in the hand. When knitting but you notice after a few stitches that you can easily pierce the needle on the left needle with the needle tip of the right hand - in the conventional N. not infrequently rotates the to be taken mesh member slightly away. In addition, I have the feeling that both hands do not tire so easily - this may be due to the angular shape, because the square in cross-section needle is not so easy in the hand and slips back, so the permanent holding is facilitated.
The knit should appear much more even when using the Cubics than the conventional needle tips. I can not substantiate this at the moment because I'm currently working. no pattern in the right-left-bottom knit, but a hole pattern, which looks as such already restless.
Parallel to the cubics and the round needle points, I tried out my current yarn and pattern with a KnitPro carbon needle with metal tip: Here the difference to the Cubics became clear, that the first stitches are often left unintentionally from the left needle point when the knitting work is removed slipped and I had to lift the stitch (s) back onto the needle. In addition, the metal tips rattled against each other constantly, creating a permanent noise that annoyed me at least in the long run.
I would like to point out the following:
The Cubics have a different, smaller (!) Circumference than the conventional round needle tips due to their angular shape with the same specified needle size. This is because the needle size in the CUBICS is given as the length of the diagonal (that is, when cutting a cubic across and measuring from one corner to the other diagonally opposite). In the case of the round needles, however, the needle size corresponds to the diameter. I once approached it mathematically and calculated that the circumference of a circular needle is slightly larger. If you e.g. Need to work with needle size 5, you should compensate for this difference in the Cubics by then needle size 5.5 used (individually by 0.5mm or 1mm larger), and then to achieve the same mesh size / mesh.
My conclusion:
Once Cubics - only Cubics! Since I once got a range of expensive KnitPro needles, I have to be satisfied with it? give ... so it will probably be some of you. But those of you who still want to buy needles in new strength: Try the Cubics (the saleswoman even offered to give back the tried-and-tested needle tips if you did not like the Cubics - maybe you have this possibility too).
Have fun trying it out!
