How to: make your own knitting needles

Knitting needles: for any self-respecting knitter your needles tell your knitting who's boss. I'm a fan of wooden needles, which grip the stitches, and an enemy of metal needles off which my knitting seems to slide as soon as my attention is distracted by something shiny.

My love of wooden needles is why I may have broken out in a small Snoopy dance when I was sent this link to Martha Stewart's Custom Knitting Needle tutorial via Twitter. It's about as simple as a how to gets.

Step one talks you through making the shaft of the needle involving easy to find tools such as a pencil sharpener and sandpaper. Step two deals with the end of the needle.

Voila! Your very own handmade knitting needles for you to handmake your own knitting on. You'll be spinning your own yarn next.

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