Remember those nice things I had to say about the KnitPicks needles I purchased and have been knitting my Spring Forward socks with?

Yeah, I take it back. I take it all back. They are evil, awful, crappy needles, and I probably won’t be buying them ever again.

They didn’t survive a week in my knitting bag, which is kept in my big bag. Despite the fact that it holds my smaller, nicer, 10 times more expensive Coach bag in it, I’m pretty rough with my big bag (it is a $20 cotton tote bag from a Tori Amos concert that has I BELIEVE IN PEACE BITCH screen printed across the side.) However, I keep all of my things in little teeny bags, so nothing actually touches… except bags. It is very incestuous.

Back to my point: my KnitPicks circular needle did not survive a week in my bag. Both tips of my circular needle are now mercifully bent - and I am less than 1 pattern repeat away from completing my socks!

Now, some pay point to my lack of secure mobile storage, but I must say that I disagree. I carry my Addi needles in my bag, and they have never been bent. The same goes for my teeny tiny wooden DPNs, and my crappy set of Susan Bates sock needles. If anything was going to bend in there, you’d think it would be the Susan Bates $2 set of sock-sized DPNs, but no, it was my KnitPicks circular needle.

I managed to bend it back to an acceptable amount of straightness, but man am I disappointed. I was really considering buying the KnitPicks set, and now I’m glad I didn’t.

Oh - and the nickel plating has already started to wear on them, and I haven’t even finished my first project with them.

So, thanks KnitPicks, for wasting my $4. For the record, I would have bought another brand, but very few make a 2.25mm 32″ circular that is flexible enough for magic looping, my preferred method of knitting in the round for socks.

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