Knitting Needles, Yarn, gauge, Oval Knitting Doily

Many times I am being asked about the types of  needles that I use for knitting.  The various types of needles that you can knit with are Aluminium, Steel, Bamboo and Soft wood needles.  Needles are either Single pointed, double pointed or Circular needles .  Different needle size will give different gauge.

The type of yarn that can knit upto a gauge of say 3 sticthes /in, a needle size of 5.5mm to 8mm is just the perfect one.

Also if you are a very loose knitter the  needle  size and the pattern will still vary.  With a thin cotton yarn like Red heart cotton yarn will give a different gauge and a thick yarn will give a different gauge.

Below is the picture of Aluminium and Bamboo Knitting needles (Single and Double pointed)

This Oval knitting Doily is knitted with set of five aluminum double pointed knitting needles with Red Heart cotton thread. 

The needle size used for knitting this Doily is 8mm.

More details on yarn and the type of Knitting stitches in my next post