#lace tips

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Have any of you tried Knitter's Pride Mindful Lace Tips?

There's a store near me that sells them, and I'm tempted to get them because they'll fit on my Knit Picks cords, but they don't look any pointier than the Knit Picks Options Sunstruck tips I already have.

(I'm trying to knit lace with a cheap yarn that is splitty and has no stretch, and I feel like slipperier, sharper needles would help.)

As far as I can tell, all of the Mindful needles are packaged as "Lace Tips" when sold separately. Which is a little odd, since none of the Mindful sets seem to be marketed as lace needles. Are these the tips that come in the sets or are they sharper?

ETA: I've been watching some reviews, and apparently all the 5" Mindful sets come with lace tips, and they're actually a tiny bit sharper than the ChiaoGoo lace tips.

ETAA: Why do these cost $3 on their website? It probably evens out with the shipping? Either way I'd rather just walk down the street and have them tomorrow.

ETAAA: I bought them! Turns out the ones I was looking at when I took these photos the other day were the 6mm. The 3.5mm are cheaper.

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lolita laundry tip: blocking your lace

This is something that really helps to make any dress with cotton lace look nicer- in the first pic, the middle row on the bodice and right side neckline have been blocked, and in the second photo all the lace has been done. In the third photo, the upper section has been blocked and the lower section below the waist seam hasn’t (I know I need to lint roll this dress, sorry!)

‘Blocking’ is a finishing technique commonly found in knitting and lace-making where after you wash your piece, as it dries you pull it into the correct shape so that after it dries it maintains that shape. For lace especially, this changes the lace from a scrunched-up state, opening up the stitches so you can see the beautiful pattern. Technically, proper blocking involves putting the item on a special mat and pinning it into place, but for my lolita I’ve found that you can just do it by hand.

This is done after washing, but while the garment is still damp- I generally wash my dresses in a machine (on a normal or gentle cycle, cold settings only) and then let them air-dry, and that’s when I deal with the lace. If I put them in the dryer or let them dry as is, the lace would dry in the ‘scrunched up’ state rather than being neat and flat (this has to be done every time you wash the garment).

To block- hold the seam or edge of the garment in one hand, and gently tug at the lace with the other to spread it out into shape. Only use enough force to get the lace to spread out, and be careful not to pull so hard you damage the seams or fabric! Then just let the dress air dry.

If you need to fix scrunched lace on a dry dress, I’d suggest steaming rather than ironing. If you gently steam the lace until it’s damp, then wait a couple seconds for it to cool off, you can re-block it, but personally I find this more tedious than blocking out of the wash since you have to watch out for the heat.

This technique is generally just for natural fibers- if you own wool or cotton sweaters they will also benefit from being gently pulled into shape before drying (never put wool in the dryer as it will shrink!). Synthetic lace, however, maintains its shape and can be machine-dried as long as the rest of the garment is also dryer-safe.

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The Lovers Reversed: Misalignment. Imbalance. Disharmony. Coldness.

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Lace knitting hack: Swatch all the charts in a bigger, sturdier yarn, rather than making 1000 mistakes with your expensive delicate laceweight.

This is cotton, fingering weight, and I'm going to take it apart eventually, but you could also make something small & useful. Dishcloth, doily, kerchief? It also doesn't have to be quite this big, I just happen to enjoy this sort of work.

It's not going to behave (or block) like wool, and of course you'll still need to do a gauge swatch in your real yarn, but I've found this really helpful for getting my mind around tricky charts, learning what it should look like, so I can spot errors, and seeing how everything will fit together in the final product.

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New knitting needles!

Knitter's Pride Mindful Collection Lace Tips, 3.5mm, 5". $14.50 (Can) at Biscotte, my local yarn store (I also got a 10% discount for my first purchase there).

They're 5" only when you include the metal bit on the cord. The tip itself is barely over 4". I haven't found it to be a problem, but if they were any shorter I might. My Clover Takumis (far right) are too short for me.

Compared with my other needles of a similar size, L to R:

3.25mm ChiaoGoo bamboo fixed circulars (modified by me)

3.25mm mystery plastic DPNs

3.25mm Lykke Blush DPNs

Quaker Girl aluminum straight needles (well, I imagine they were straight once upon a time)

3.5mm Perl-Inox anodized aluminum straights

3.5mm Knit Picks Options Sunstruck birch

3.5mm Knit Picks Foursquare Majestic (heavily modified by me because when I was a beginner they were way too slippery and way too pointy for me)

3.5mm Knitter's Pride Mindful Collection Lace stainless steel

3.75mm Clover Takumi bamboo

I've knit a few rows with the Mindful needles. My thoughts so far:

They do indeed fit onto my Knit Picks and Lykke cords, with just the tiniest bump at the join on the Knit Picks. Slows down the stitches a tiny bit, but doesn't really catch. The Lykke cord comes unscrewed while I'm knitting, but that's a problem with the cord, not the needle tips: it happens no matter which tips I put on that cord. ETA: One of the tips came unscrewed from my longest Knit Picks cord.

I like that the size is printed so large: nice and easy to read. I'm not so keen on my needles instructing me to BREATHE though. What are they, my birthing coach?

They are noticeably heavier than my wood needles, but not in a bad way.

The metal on metal noise is very quiet and doesn't bother me.

The stitches definitely slide over these needles more smoothly. This would be a problem with slippery yarn but it's great with grippy yarn.

They are noticeably pointier than my Knit Picks Sunstruck, pointy enough that I have to avoid pushing the tips with my fingers.

It is definitely easier to do increases and decreases with these.

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