Cable Needle Styles

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Fish hook, bent, flared and straight cable needles.
Fish hook, bent, flared and straight cable needles.

Cable needles come in lots of different styles. No style is necessarily better than the others. It's often a matter of personal preference and deciding which type of needle will work best for your project needs.

Lesson Notes

  • Introduction - 0:00
  • Hook Shaped Cable Needle - 1:18
  • Bent or Curved Cable Needles - 2:07
  • Flared Cable Needles - 2:39
  • Straight Cable Needles - 3:08
  • DPNs or Circular Needles - 3:52
  • Final Notes - 4:44

Pattern: Spindler Socks
Yarn: Schoppel Jeans Ball
Needles: skacel by addi FlipStix and Rocket2 [Squared]
Notions: fish hook shaped cable needle, Clover Bent Cable Needles, Brittany (flared) Cable Needles, Coco Knits (straight) Cable Needles

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