Hi, Guys! I'm Kristen and thank you for joining me here at Studio Knit.
Today, I want to talk about interchangeable circular needles. So we've used circular
needles to create hats and I have an entire video all about how to use them I
will link to that in the description below so the one I bought is called
ADDI-CLICK. It's by a company called Addi and they are based in Germany so we're going
to do a little bit of an unboxing although I have already unboxed this
because I wanted to have a chance to knit with them and make sure they were
as good as I hoped and they actually exceeded my expectations so let's take a
look so for starters it comes with a couple of brochures that show you
exactly how to use them and they're in the languages of German English and
French and then the product itself it's so cool so check this out it is in sort
of like this cute little purse the company name is embossed right here ADDI CLICK
you can sort of see it right there yep there we go in the light and on the
back there's the zipper that holds some goodies so let's go ahead and open it it
opens with snaps and it stays tight and before we get any further we'll see that
they included jewelry so it's a heart pin and it has a little rhinestone so I
guess we can all wear it and be an ADDI CLICK CLIQUE. I'm not really sure why they
added it but it's very sweet and let's keep on opening we'll see that it's
lined in really pretty satin with like a pink and green design I'm loving
the color of the case it seems like it only comes in this one color there's not
a color option and then we'll open it further we'll see that this little flap
is protecting our needles and here we have all of the different needle sizes
and they're held in place with elastic so you can easily take them out put them
right back in where they belong just like that and let's look at the
different sizes that we have
so the needles are placed from smaller to larger and it starts out with size
4 US, which is 3.5 millimeter and the next size up is size 6 we have size 7, 8,
I do a lot of projects with 8 next is 9, 10, and then 10.75. I've
never used that before I've had a 10.5 before probably pretty close. and then it
finishes up with 11. If we flip to the back here are the goodies right here
that's how it comes with three different lengths of cords the shortest here is 24,
and then we have 32, inches and this is 40 inches. I like to knit with size 16
and that doesn't come in this kit but they do offer it as an add-on for about
ten dollars so I'm going to make sure that I go over and order that because I
love having that size for hats and let's take a look at how this all fits
together so let's go ahead and select our needle size let's go for the big
ones and that is size 11 and then you select the length of the cord that you'd
like I'm going to do the shorter one here so you're going to take the cord
and your needle and the cord inserts into the needle right here when you do
it you'll feel that there's a little bounce there's like a little spring in
there so just sort of spring it inward a little bit and twist the cord to the
right then it clicks right in there and to release it you just press straight in
twist it the opposite way and it comes right out now if you're a little bit
sweaty here is why they added these in so these are little grips that are going
to help us with this process because especially under these
lights I'm a little bit all sweaty so I'm going to try this again I'm going to
hold on to the cord I'm going to take my knitting needle put the cord in to the
needle press them just a little bit go to the right and yes I'm all clicked in
and it does not easily come out the way that you do it you undo it again is just
to go in twist the opposite way to the left and release pretty cool so your kit
also comes with one little connector it's this little gold bar here at the
bottoms let's take that out and what that does it is it connects the cords to
make an even longer cord so I'm going to take this one here so that's just like
the needles so you take it put it in and twist it okay I heard the click I'm nice
and connected right there on that one so we'll connect this cord right here let's
see if I can do it without the grips we'll put it in tightly twist it there
we go it's clicked in nice and tight and then we have so that's giving us one so
that's giving us this one cord right here
we go along here's where our connector is and then we continue on even longer
and so you can make a really nice long cord especially if you're using a
blanket so if you learn needles are great for that so let's go ahead and
attach other needle right in let's in turn click and so then you have a really
long cord with your knitting needles and you're good to go so here is my stash of
circular needles now some of these are special to me because they were passed
down from my late grandmother who was an amazing knitter
but you can see there's a mishmash I do not have a good inventory of what I have
on hand I have some larger ones and some cute little smaller ones in here so
years ago I did purchase an interchangeable circular needle set and
I purchased the cheapest one that I could find it is totally plastic
and I wound up not using it because it would really the yarn would catch on the
little connectors right here and it what I was knitting it was really easy for
them to just kind of come off I'm not really trying I'm just sort of like
accidentally just sort of like accidentally twisting just a little bit
so when I was knitting a lot of times they would come apart because it just
twists to come apart and comes off so I got really frustrated I'm not even sure
why I still have this I think the rest of all the bits and pieces because it
didn't have a good case those all sort of found their way into the recycling
but I'm glad I have this one to show you that there are cheaper options out there
but you might regret getting them if they're not really good quality and if
they make knitting more difficult than easier so the cost to just buy
standalone circular needles there's I don't know I'd say maybe approximately
about ten dollars but so I have about twenty right here then what I've
collected is well over two hundred dollars worth and I definitely do not
have the 24 different combinations for the projects that I would in the case so
when it comes to organization and cost having an interchangeable circular
needle set it definitely wins out so if you are interested in getting some
interchangeable circular needles I suggest that you first go to your local
yarn shop and see what they have and what they recommend for you and those
big-box craft stores I don't think that they will have
thing of this quality in stock so I am going to include the online link to
purchase this over on Amazon and I have it in MY AMAZON SHOP so if you'd like
you can go check that out I have all of my favorite knitting items that Amazon
currently has I sorted through found lots of really great items available on
Prime so that you can get free shipping if you're a Prime member as well as some
of the best deals that they have and really good quality knitting tools for
your future projects so I hope my little overview of how interchangeable circular
needles has been hopeful to you again I have a great tutorial all about how to
knit on circular needles I'll leave that link down below check out my Amazon Shop
I think there's some items that will be fun little gifts that you can give to
yourself you can add to your wish list and I will see you next time, Guys.
Bye!