Oh, my . . I forgot one of the items I was most impressed with about the Addi needles. Where’s my brain? I know . . Vince was home Monday and yesterday . . sick. He went back to work today and I was so happy to have the house to myself and then . . he came home at lunch feeling bad and stayed home. I hope he feels better soon! 🙂
Knitters know the importance of a life line. Heck, I guess all humans know the importance of life lines! With knitting, when we’re doing hard projects, or projects where we might make mistakes, we can run a “life line” through the project and then if/when you have to rip back, the life line kind of holds the spot and it keeps you from ripping back too far and makes it easy to pick up the stitches. Say I put a life line in every 10th row so if I were knitting along and saw a mistake, 4 or 5 rows back, I could unravel back to that point or to the life line, pick up the stitches on a row that I know which number I was on (to keep the pattern going) and then resume.
The new Addi needles have a slot in the cables into which you can slip a thread for feeding a lifeline. If you enlarge the photo and look between the pink lines I’ve drawn, you may be able to see the slit.
Life Line
Here’s the slit with a gray thread fed through.
Life Line
And, if you can’t see much through my photos, here’s that portion of the brochure.
Life Line
Is that handy or what?
Joan says
Wow! That is terrific! Do you happen to know if the cables will fit older Addi interchangeable needles? I’d love to buy new cables for mine.
Judy S says
Very cool! I don’t have many Addi needles but love those I do have.
Linda says
Wow! That is super cool. Okay, Judy, now do I need to buy another set of interchangeable needles? Dang it!
Dar in MO says
That is a neat idea. I’m still not sure I know how the lifeline works. Do you knit another thread or yarn along with your current yarn project? Is the lifeline the whole length of that particular row of what you are knitting? Guess I need to see one done in person to better understand it.
Amy (Waunaknit) says
That is slick! I know other ones have a little hole in the needle portion of the interchangeable but this would work much better for heavier weight yarn. Stop making me think I need these!
Sheryl Till says
Thanks for showing the lifeline slit. I couldn’t quite figure that out. I’m not crazy about the join on these. It’s not smooth enough for me. I love the ChiaGoo lace interchangeables and use the lifeline hole extensively. They enlarged the key-hole just large enough to accommodate a thread. I think the other brand interchangeables could also take a fishing line through their key-hole to be used as a lifeline. I’m going to give it a try.
I’m anxiously awaiting a new brand of interchangeable square needles to hit the market. Kollage already has square circulars but they are working on an interchangeable set with what they call “revolutionary join”. According to their customer service, these new needles sets will hopefully be available in March.