Ode to Kelly

This post is for my friend Kelly (KellyR on Ravelry). She's not a blogger, but if you live in the area and spin, or knit, or use a sock machine, odds are you've met her. She's a regular at spin night and I owe her this post for two reasons.

Reason One:

She introduced me to these teeny tiny 9inch circular needles. They are HiyaHiya needles and it means I can knit socks without DPNs (hazardous around the wee ones) or magic loop (no annoying twisty dangly cord). They take a little getting used to, but I think I'm officially converted, even if they don't magically make me able to knit socks at more than a glacial pace!

Reason 2:



Wheel cup holder. Seriously, I don't think you could get any better than this. Kelly's always had this nifty plastic cup holder on her Journey Wheel at spin night. Her dearest one is in the plastics business and made it for her. Now they are making them for all of us. She has them for Schacht, Louet, Journey Wheel, Jensen, Lendrum, and after my little Rose had a sleepover at her house this weekend, she's got them for Majacraft now too. The beauty of these is that you don't have to mess with/give new holes to your wheel at all - her genius husband has figured out a custom fit for each wheel type so no wheel mods are needed. You can get yours at their Etsy shop FBNPlastics if she doesn't have your wheel, let her know - they're working on adding more to the list.