Two days ago I bought a "small bag" needlepoint stitch at Value Village after a total tax of $ 11.28. It’s hard to say what’s in my bag when I’m at the store, but I know I can’t see some sized knitted needles and I’m sure I have at least one. My expenses will come. It’s worth it even if I don’t want anything else in the bag. I bought a bag, took it home, broke a kid's urge to open a Christmas gift on Christmas morning, and spent the happy afternoons growing up with a bunch of knitting needles.
First of all, I searched the contents of the two bags for nothing. This find includes a pair of 3.75mm straight lines, a pair of 7mm straight lines, a pair of 10mm straight lines, a set of four 7mm DPNs, a 7mm 30mm ferrule, and a rubber needle tip that brought me a pair of protectors. And size 2 crochet hook. 2.5 mm and 9 mm. I also got a set of three quilt pins of different sizes. I may already have at least one needle of this size, but it won't hurt because others are broken / lost, so I put them in a plastic needle box in my work basket. I think it's okay to buy a bag. It will cost more than .2 11.28 to buy all these new things
I hooked up the rest of the needles to the living room toilet bag, some knitting needle tip buttons were missing and the stitches were so painful. Walk away from them in the middle of the project. Maybe I could exchange a pair for a bunch of bags of the same size.
I took a bunch of straight knitting needles from a glass vase in the attic, compared them to sizes ... and started laughing. Looking at the whole set of straight needles, I realized how much damage it had done in a way I had never done before. I had a few pins that lost the crown and others that lost the button size number 7 I have a pair of 5mm buttons combined with two different style buttons. Some needles are slightly curved. And I never realized that I was too busy making points.
I started comparing the needles I had in the current set to see what I could improve on, and in the end, in addition to the new tools added to my kit, I had to replace seven or eight straight pairs. I replaced all the needles with missing or worn grease and inconsistent pairs. I replaced one pair of plastic needles with one pair of metal needles of the same size. I replaced some of the finer knitting needles from other brands on my set with other eros needles for a more fitted set (most of my belts are classic gray metal or eros millimeter plastic). Button at the end). Most pleated needles are replaced along the path.
When I finished, I was very happy with my purchase. I bought a fishing bag thinking I was adding a new volume to my needle set, and I'm not worth the money to renew my needles, a nice bonus to be able to do that too. My straight line looks a lot better for him.
Once I'm done sorting and sorting, I'll update my knitted sweeppoint catalog to reflect my new purchases. Yes, I have an Excel spreadsheet that I use to keep track of my needles, as well as a second spreadsheet for my sewing thread catalog . I know it sounds obsessive, but it's more efficient to be able to see if I have the right size for a project, DPN, or circuit size than to go through all my pins to find it manually. Outside.
I also think about the complete collection of my needles. What else do I need / want? As you can see in the screenshots of my catalog, I really miss a whole set, especially the small size. I'll probably add missing sizes from time to time, or if I find a pattern that requires needles I don't have any soon. I have a low quality aluminum DPN that I want to replace, but I will probably have to wait until I get a new one. I wanted to make a fabric roll bag for my DPN with specially labeled pockets for each size, because now I wrap it with DPN elastic and with a gauge needle it is very difficult to find the size I want to pass. .
When I updated the Swipoint catalog, I added a section for crochet. I use it very rarely and do not have a large needle, but now that I have six or eight different sizes in my hand, it is worth noting what I should do next.
I definitely don't need to update my newsletter. Last December, in the face of an epidemic, and the opportunity to spend Christmas alone, I went shopping on Amazon to invigorate myself, and found a set of ChiaoGoo lace that had been on my list of favorites for several years, like the cheapest. King I have never seen it before ... well, if you ever live it is a perfect shopping situation. I spent my budget to buy the ChiaoGoos set. Nine months later, I'm still very happy that I'm lucky to have such an amazing set of tools and to be able to use them more than I expected.
This is my old round package so you can understand why I'm so excited to set up ChiaoGoo. It's a lot of generalizations, but it comes from a store that exchanges exchangeable sets, Dennis, which I got $ 5 years ago, and that's a complete nonsense. I have to constantly remind myself that this is better than nothing. When the assembly is partially incomplete and partially broken, the threads cling to the joint and the ropes and needles become completely untidy. It is usually expressed in the middle of the loop and reveals about 50 points of my wire. I gritted my teeth, picked up the annoying drop points, and moved on, repeating the same thing five minutes later. When I think about it, I feel high blood pressure.
I kept two old round needles because they weren't in my ChiaoGoo collection, and my old collars went to the secondary store, but I didn't subdue a demonic torture machine in the guise of a ring of other poor weavers. A set of knitting needles. I dumped Dennis's device in the trash, and I could put a few Latin markings around the blue-floral vinyl wrapper before I went into my pocket, which looked dangerous, so that it would not look blue anywhere in my house. , Eh. An old urban legend about an Ouija board or a curse doll.
I remember some of the anecdotes that I know people who thought they needed a shiny new gadget for every activity. My father was
an award-winning carpenter with many carpenter friends, he told the story of a lawyer who was his friend and had a carpenter's shop in his house with a few thousand dollars' worth of merchandise. The best carpentry tools and equipment, all in good condition ... because there was no carpenter shop. The lawyer never used his woodworking tools, did not know how to use them, and made no effort to learn them. They were there so that everyone who came to her house could enjoy her wonderful carpentry work. The big embarrassment, of course, is that when he tries to pretend to be a carpenter with a tool, ... he looks a lot like a musical instrument.
Or it was in the late 90's when a friend of mine who had just started playing tennis bought two new tennis racquets, for fifty or sixty dollars each, and after playing a game that almost touched the ball. The net (not even me) has told me that he wants to exchange his new racquet for more than $ 100 for some special high quality tennis racquets.
Then there was another story when my aunt, a retired sewing machine salesman, told me that a mother and daughter came to the store to buy a sewing machine for her daughter who was taking a fashion design lesson. They bought a substandard machine and came back a few weeks later. Her daughter did not use it, but she was sure that she would use a better machine, so her mother bought her a more expensive and more feature-rich machine. A few weeks later, a second machine was also brought in because her daughter had not used a high quality sewing machine.
The best new tool is to over-evaluate the expert's features and make additional purchases, and experts and professionals are generally satisfied to get the tools they need and often improve with what they have. Instead of buying very special equipment, they are rarely used. Even if the gadgets are shiny and new, or how exciting they are to buy, they won't work for you, or they won't be a substitute for true taste, skill, efficiency, dedication and attention. When it comes to needles, the right size for your height is not the right type, quality and / or condition for whatever project you are working on. Adding to my Straight Knitting Needle collection is great, and since I love my ChiaoGoo collection, my improved set of knitting needles will not make me perform a better knitting needle or better than before; They look nice, a little simpler, more fun, more comfortable to use, and give me more shaping options. I would like to replace my cheap colored aluminum DPNs with a good quality kit because I know they will eventually break or flex, but I can still do a good job with the best DPNs on the market.
Like a lawyer with a carpenter's scene, my father's carpentry was never a scene that would impress anyone. She has a variety of tools, many of which are decades old and the filth and confusion of their appearance and her workshop that they have always posed a constant threat to her and my mother's marital status. But even though he replaces broken tools when needed and manages them from time to time, he usually has what he needs to get the job he wants to do and makes beautiful, real wood that looks a lot more than a real achievement. . Compared to an expensive new tool.
The tools are great, but the work you do - what you learn, what you can achieve - is even more important in the end.
