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WIN SOME NEEDLES – AND A HOOK TOO!

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I ran across these in my stash recently.  Don’t recall where they came from.  But, I don’t need them.  If you knit or want to learn, then add a comment below.  I’ll wait til May 5 (some fun for Cinco de Mayo) and draw a name for the winner.  I’ll throw in at least one crochet hook too – maybe not a new one, but a good one.

CHIAOGOO SINGLE POINT KNIT NEEDLES SIZE 3, 14 INCH

CHIAOGOO SINGLE POINT KNIT NEEDLES SIZE 3, 14 INCH

The hooks I’m offering are in slightly different packaging.  They’re size 3 and are 14 inches long.  Needles made in China from “Chinese Moso Bamboo, one of the largest and strongest bamboo species in the world.”

Leave me a comment – and Good Luck!

Comments

  1. hey. I love to knit and crochet. I dont have any bamboo needles. I have been told that they are the best to work it.

  2. I love to knit and crochet. I have never tried the bamboo needles. I have been told that they are be best to work with.

  3. I love all your work espically the granny square the red, white and blue.
    I have a pair of bamboo knitting needles and i love them.
    keep up the good work
    pat e.

  4. Throw my name in the hat, please! I borrowed some knitting needles from a friend once and learned the very basics, but never got any further. Crocheting seems easier to do, but in my limited experience it seemed easier to be consistent with knitting… I’d love to give it another shot.

    thanks!

  5. wow what a nice website, i need to get one for my scented candles and tarts i make 🙂
    i like you site cause it has alot of useful information, keep up the good work 🙂

  7. Hi! I am just recently learning how to knit and do not have half the items required. I have a pair of beginner knitting needles. Now crochet, I have tons of items, lol!

    Thanks for giving these away and even if I don’t win, YOU ROCK!!

  8. I am just learning to knit after crocheting for 30 years. Would love a chance to win these. thank you for this contest

  9. I am trying to teach myself to knit. My friend said that I should try to find lighter (bamboo) needles. I am not a fan of ordering online (if I can help it) and the closest craft store is over an hour away. I wish I could knit as well as I crochet!

  10. Have been wanting to learn to knit. I tried years ago, but, really didn’t have the patience for it and kept losing stitches. Anyway, i will keep my fingers crossed. Nice idea.

  11. Would love to win some needles and a hook (or two?). Maybe it would inspire me to learn to knit. Like I need another passion.. lol. Even if I didn’t learn, I do have family members who knit and these would make great gifts.

  16. I could always enhace my knitting needle stash! Bamboo are my favorite, with the possible exception of various hardwoods.

  17. I’d Love To Win These !! This Will Give Me More Incintive To Lean To Knit, Since I Already Crochet,I’ve Been Wanting To Learn To Knit.
    Thank’s, Dottie In Va
    [email protected]

  20. Would love to own some bamboo knitting needles!! They are too expensive for our budget so have to stick with tag sale finds to replenish needles that get bent or break (plastic gets brittle after a few years and break just looking at them).

  22. Please enter me for your great needle giveaway! I would love to try some bamboo needles! Thanks, Kim

  25. I really like this brand of needles. I have a set of circulars from then, and double-pointeds, and they are really smooth and nice to touch.

  26. I would like to win the needles. I hear they are better than metal and plastic. Thanks!

  28. Hi JD, if I had those knitting needles then finally my teacher could teach me to knit instead of just crochet.

  30. HI,

    I just started knitting and would love to have some new needles. This would give me an excuse to buy more yarn!!

  34. What lovely looking needles! I would love to have these; I’ve just discovered the joy of bamboo! Thanks so much for the give-away! tt

  35. Hi. Don’t knit much, but maybe a change of needles will make a difference in how quick I can learn knit stitches and keep on knitting !

  37. I have wanted to try bamboo knitting needles but haven’t had the money to buy a set. I love to knit and crochet they are the only things that seem to calm me now-a-days with four kids in the house and it being rainy here most of the time lately. Put my name in to. Good Luck to all.

  41. I’ve been really wanting to try the bamboo needles, but haven’t purchased any yet. Please add my name to your giveaway.

    Thanks, Di

  42. moving to teach in China next year. my biggest fear? nothing to do with culture shock, but how ever will i satisfy my need for crafting abroad, so far away from the chaos of my crafting material corner?

    could bamboo knitting needles be the answer to my deepest worries?

  46. Hi! I would Love to recieve these IM trying to learn how to knit. I crochet But I would love to knit some patterns Ive seen. But its takeimg me time cause Im self teacheing myself how to knit. Maybe these would be good teaching needles for me to learn with. Will good luck on picking a name. ty tc.

  48. I’ve started teaching knitting/crocheting to some local Girl Scouts… they’d come in handy to give to the girls whose Moms aren’t crafty/don’t have any of their own to lend… THANK YOU for sharing…

  49. My daughter’s learning how to knit and I’d love to win these for her ( so she’ll quit raiding my needle stash!)
    So please put me (us) in the drawing!

  50. I Love bamboo needles and my precious puppy got lonely one day and chewed up 3 pair I had layin on the coffee table, I haven’t replaced them yet, luckily only one had a project on them and I was able ro rewind the yarn to use again someday…

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