Best five dollars you will ever spend. Let’s start with the unassuming case: this case keeps your needles from getting lost, and is the perfect size for you to slip a few stitch markers with you so you’ll always have some. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there’s a tiny loop on the side of the case, begging you to wear your Chibi as a necklace. The needle is the best part. It has a metallic coating, which is paramount, because the needle slides easily through your stitches. If you’ve ever tried to use a sticky plastic needle, you know what I’m talking about. The Chibi needle is thin and trim, and slides easily through the smallest of stitches without stretching them out. This is almost unbelievable when you consider the eye of the Chibi needle, which is so large it can accommodate even the largest yarn. The trick is that it’s not a wide but a very long eye. Another feature of the Chibi needle I’d like to highlight is the little angle at the tip, which almost magically wrangles your stitches right up onto the needle. They come two to a case because they know you’re going to lose one. I love that they know me so well, they know I’m going to need two. These are the reasons why the Chibi is the best.
Helpful Hints for Threading Your Chibi
I take the yarn and fold it in half around the Chibi.
I pull the Chibi all they way up to the top of the fold.
Then, I scoot my fingers up so that I’m pinching the yarn tightly around the needle and pull the needle out.
There will only be about a millimeter of yarn sticking out.
That little bit goes perfectly into the needle, regardless of splittyness or thickness.
There you have it!
1 comment:
this is a great post, renee. i love your photos! every time I tell someone about the chibi i think of you. :)
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