With the bright pink cable and the shiny, spiral grooved tips these new needles from Addi are hard to miss, so when they crossed my social media feed a few days ago I immediately wanted to snag a set for myself. (This is not a paid advert feature - I bought the needles myself and haven’t been asked to write this).
I was a little sceptical of the claim that the unique spiral tips help to massage the hands while knitting - but that aside I have to say that I really enjoyed using these needles and I’d definitely buy more.
The cable is super flexible with absolutely no memory so it’s great for magic loop projects - my favourite way to knit socks. There’s also no join at all between the cable and the tips, meaning that your stitches slide really easily from tip to cable and back again.
The 100cm cable is a bit long for me - in my enthusiasm to buy I didn’t realise other lengths were available. Next time I’d probably buy the 80cm as that’s my preferred length for magic loop knitting. But honestly, that’s the only thing I didn’t enjoy about knitting with these.
It’s hard to convey how super smooth I found knitting with them, but I filmed a short Reel of me using them which you can see over on my Instagram page.
Heaven knows, I have no shortage of knitting needles, but a sock knitter can always use a few more 2.5mm needles…right?
