Use the Cocoknits Leather Cord and Needle Stitch Holder Kit in lieu of scrap yarn whenever you need to hold live stitches. The threaded needles allow you to knit off your leather cord

The Leather Cord and Needle Stitch Holder Kit contains:

two interior-threaded needles made of nickel plated steel
three lengths of leather cord
- one long – for holding sts of sweater body (150 cm)
- two short – for holding sts of sleeves (75 cm)

Keep the contents of your kit in the reusable kraft drawer, lined with 100% wool felt

Please note you may need to snip the end of your leather cord at an angle to facilitate attaching the needle. If you find the leather cord too rough or sticky for your liking, we suggest waxing the cord with beeswax or a similar product to smooth out the rough patches

When knitting top-down, seamless sweaters, there comes a point when you need to take your sleeve stitches off onto a holder. Safety-pin type stitch holders don’t work for this. Scrap yarn works, but tends to slip up into the stitches, making the job of getting each stitch back onto a needle laborious. You can leave them on a spare circular needle or cord – but it’s challenging to have needles and cord hanging everywhere. A leather cord had the flexibility of yarn, but is firm enough to keep the stitches from disappearing up into themselves. The interior-threaded needle means you can knit onto and off of the cord – like a leather circular needle. The needles screw onto, and off of, the leather cord

Cocoknits Leather cord and Needle kit