ChiaoGoo Red Lace Circular 16 inch (40cm) Stainless Steel Knitting Needle Size US 8 (5mm) 7016-8

My favorite lightweight needles with the most perfect cord.

In my opinion ChiAgoo needles are the best. They have nice points on them that enable you to get into the stitches nicely, and very importantly they have no-memory cables. I highly recommend these needles.

No cord getting in the way. Will be great for knitting hats, mittens and baby garments.

Excellent needles - the cable doesnt twist as you work, and the points are sharp enough to make knitting fine fabrics much easier.

Perfect

They were sooo smooth and flowed on the needles without catching or bunching of the yarn. Light weight and easy to use.

Made a hat with using the 16-inch, size 9, circular knitting needles and it turned out nice. I would suggest to the manufacturer to make the length of the cord 1.5 inches longer for hat projects requiring thicker yarn.

The package says size 8, but the ChiaGoo stainless steel knitting needles that I received are etched with a size 3 on the actual needle. I have never had this happen before, so Im not sure why there is this discrepancy. I wanted another size 8 of circular needles so that I could work on my sweater sleeves simultaneously. However, I think it would be too much of a hassle to return these for actual size 8 needles in a 16 size, so I will keep them and hopefully use them for some other project. That being said, ChiaGoo circulars have become virtually the only knitting needles that I will use. I am accumulating quite a set and use them often. They are very high quality and fly through the stitches wonderfully, no snags.

These are the best knitting needles ever. The 16 inch is perfect for making hats in the round. These are the only needles I want to use now.

Very nice, very smooth.