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knit affair Knitting Needles Review & Giveaway!

October 12, 2015 7 Comments

Check out these colorful & contemporary knitting needles, perfect for gifting!

This spring, I discovered an uber-cool knitting needle company called knit affair. A young knitting industry company from Berlin, knit affair offers contemporary accessories for knitters. Knit affair features both straight and circular knitting needles, as well as a range of accessories, all of which are produced with respect to the environment. Super cute, with manufacturing that cares about the environment? I’m all about it!

These sustainably produced, colorful knitting needles are handmade in Berlin and oh-so-fun!

Manufactured in Germany by local craftsmen and artists, knit affair needles are not only beautiful, but they’re a company whose products I’m glad to work with. These pretty needles use sustainably harvested wood from Germany and incorporate water-based colors and varnishes that comply with requirements for certified children’s toys. The finished needles are easy to knit with and don’t look like your grandmother’s needles.

These sustainably produced, colorful knitting needles are made in Berlin and oh-so-fun!

While the “your-grandmother’s” phrase is so epically overused in knitting marketing, I’m using it literally here. As someone who learned to knit from her grandmother and great-grandmother Schnell (yes, I’m named Heidi, and my mom’s maiden name is Schnell), I really did learn to knit on extra needles they had around the house. When my great-grandma passed at age 102, I inherited many of her heavy, old-fashioned knitting needles that work perfectly fine to this day, but in no way do they pack the visual punch of their carefully-crafted, contemporary counterparts from knit affair.

Check out these colorful & contemporary knitting needles, perfect for gifting!

I’ve been loving working with these fun needles, and knit affair has generously offered to sponsor a giveaway of their needles that’s open to international entries (seriously! everyone can enter!). How awesome are the neon tipped needles, the metallic option, and the colorblock ones too? It’s really cool to see someone producing needles that are not only fun to work with, but a way to make your public knitting oh-so-chic!

These sustainably produced, colorful knitting needles are made in Berlin and oh-so-fun! Enter to win a pair for yourself or a friend.

Enter to win needles from knit affair!

The lucky winner can choose one of the options below, in colors and sizes of choice (styles as pictured throughout this post).

  • 3 pairs of straights with single color beads
  • 2 pairs of straights with multi-color beads
  • 1 pair of design needles

Visit this page to enter.

This post and the corresponding giveaway were provided by knit affair. 

Filed Under: Giveaways, Reviews & Sponsored, Knitting, Knitting & Crochet Tagged With: colorblock knitting needles, german knitting needles, giveaway, knit affair, knitting needles, sustainability

About Heidi

Heidi Gustad is a craft book author & content creator in love with primary colors & vintage vibes. She specializes in knitting, crochet, latch hook and macramé, and her first book, Latch Hook: 12 Projects for the Modern Maker, is out now!

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  1. Kcscrapper

    October 14, 2015 at 11:32 am

    Wish me Luck!

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  2. JoyceS

    October 17, 2015 at 10:16 am

    Just proves you can never have too much yarn or too many needles!! Beautiful!

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  3. LindaN

    October 17, 2015 at 10:36 am

    I’d love to win the turquoise needles. They’d be fun to knit with.

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  4. charlotte

    October 17, 2015 at 11:03 am

    OMG>>> no excuse not to get started if I win>> love those gold and black beads needles, I am sure they would make me do better!!!!! Thank you for the chance to win>> Happy Holidays

    Reply
  5. MaryEllen

    October 17, 2015 at 2:43 pm

    What beautiful needles!! I’d love the neon ones!

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  6. Bonnie

    October 17, 2015 at 4:24 pm

    I,too,learned to knit with very old heavy needles…not sure who they belonged to…do love the gold and black needles ……NEVER TOO MANY NEEDLES!

    Reply
  7. Bonnie Matossian

    October 17, 2015 at 4:25 pm

    NEVER too many needles!

    Reply

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Hi! I’m Heidi, an author, yarn craft designer and content creator specializing in knitting, crochet, latch hook & macrame. My work unapologetically features primary colors and vintage-meets-modern style. My first book, Latch Hook: 12 Projects for the Modern Maker, is now available!

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Pictured: A blond woman in a denim dress and glasses wearing a giant belt made with punch needle. The belt is made with wool in primary colors and was inspired by the WWE Universal Championship title belt. 
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This is just a preview - after jab 2.0 tomorrow (feeling grateful 🙏🏼), I’ll be editing together a vlog about the design process for this wooly waist cover. Sometimes it’s hard to know how to make some of your wilder craft ideas come to life. Stuff you’ll never find a pattern for, you know? I’ll finish editing that ASAP, but I might take a few days to edit if I feel like trash from 💉 and only want to watch wrestling and wrestling YouTube for a day or two. 😂
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A look at the halo on the back of my wrestling-ins A look at the halo on the back of my wrestling-inspired punch needle project! It’s interesting to see how fuzzy the handspun beige yarn is compared with the primary color sections of @knit_picks Wool of the Andes Bulky. ❤️💛💙🤎 
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Pictured: The back of an in-progress punch needle project. A wooden punch needle tool sits on the work.
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Happy Easter / One week til Wrestlemania! Finishin Happy Easter / One week til Wrestlemania! Finishing up the punch needling part of this crazy @wwe inspired project by tonight. 💪🏻🧶 Anybody else have crafty plans for this fine spring day? 
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Pictured: A blond woman sits, smiling and holding an in-progress punch needle project inspired by the Universal Championship belt. Houseplants are in the background and there’s lots of sun. 
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I'm finally starting to get some of my energy back I'm finally starting to get some of my energy back from the past few weeks, and as I dip my toe back into production mode, the long-promised seamed sweater knitting YouTube series is at the top of my list. I've got FOUR versions of a simple sweater I've been playing with since last JULY to feature as a free pattern for folks who want to knit along during the series. Pictured is the first prototype for the series, knit in 2 colors of @knit_picks Mighty Stitch yarn. I imagine this soon-to-be short sleeved number will come in handy as an emergency Waldo costume or Christmas sweater. 🌲 
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I've got my own list of topics I think folks would like to see in a series like this: things like tips for construction, working with vintage patterns, how to seam as invisibly as possible, and more, but as always, I'd love to hear from you: What scares you about knitting seamed sweaters? What would be helpful to cover, especially since we'll be doing more long form video content. I get so much positive feedback on my series of 20 minute+ intarsia tutorials, so I'm using those as a starting point as I produce this series. Seamed sweaters using vintage or self-improvised patterns are one of my favorite things on the planet, so I'm eager to share some seamed sweater skills with y'all super sweet folks. 😉 
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Pictured: A red and white striped, short sleeved sweater knit in pieces that have yet to be seamed. They are laid out on a yellow and orange colorblock background and one sleeve is yet to be bound off. 
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The biggest question I have is what to do with the “plates” - the open circles in the picture. Should I try to closely replicate the Universal Championship belt or go rogue and make it wool themed? Please advise in the comments. ☺️🧶🙏🏻🐑 
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