This is the first time, first day ever learning this craft. Thanks

I also prefer 2-hole needles. For all the reasons you mentioned, plus it makes it very obvious that this needle is for something special.

Your technique for pulling the thread through is amazing.  Thank you for sharing about the holes and your gorgeous needles!!!

I LOVE two-hole needles! My favorite personal one is made out of bone, but I have several wood and a couple of horn ones as well.

Personally, I find that bone or horn needles make for a more ergonomic experience, especially if your yarn is particularly fuzzy, because sometimes it feels like the wool can get caught on the wood a bit.  

That being said, I'm definitely going to make one of those needle holders now

I learned the hard way that Asle is pronounced "Ahsz-lah" 😅

I'm currently working on a Finnish 2 + 2 hat, and really wishing I owned a two-hole needle. I do something similar to your threading technique when I'm needle-tatting in order to get more thread mileage. That said, your technique for winding the long thread around your hand was new to me. I've been laboriously pulling mine through. I tried your way, and it went SO much faster!

I hope you have a small shop where you sell those amazing needles you make....they have a lovely vibe to them...perhaps even sell them as a little kit?

Great video! <3   You've pointed out some more modern ways to use the 2-eyed needles and they are absolutely useful! <3. Traditionally, it is so that you can load more yarn onto your needle.  This greatly reduces the amount of butterfly wraps you're doing while displacing the thickness so all that thickness doesn't open your stitches as you nalbind.

You've covered one way of loading more yarn, but try zig-zagging the yarn first and then load it into the needle.   This is called "stacking" the yarn.  Start by making a sideways "W" and place one pointed end of the "W" into each eye.  (So, rather than 4 strands, you have 8 strands.).  

Most will double their yarn and pull it through 1 eye (essentially the same 4 strands you have, but through one eye).  That amount will not open your stitches as you try to pull the needle through your work, however, anything more would.    The reason for the 2 eyes is that you can now load the same amount in each eye (8 strands total) and displace the thickness you're pulling through each stitch.

Kudos for doing the Åsle stitch!  It's time consuming, but the results are so worth it!  It makes such a nice, plush piece of fabric and works well with thinner yarns.  Because of the longer loops it creates on the fabric, it works perfectly for your needle cases <3

wow really nice collation of needles and even cooler cus you made them!

Sometimes when I'm weaving in ends, the end gets too short, before I finish. I imagine if I had another hole closer to the tip I could get it through that last bit more easily. This is also helped with a curved needle, or if I just stick the needle through and then add the thread back in through the eye.

I haven't tried nalbinding yet, but it strongly reminds me of embroidery and Native American basketweaving.

I seem to be on a mission to try all kinds of yarn crafts I can find. I really enjoy fingerloop braiding and loom knitting. I'm trying crochet and needle knitting. Nalbinding almost feels instinctive, just watching the few videos I've seen. I haven't yet tried macrame, and latch-hooking was different.

Looks like a cool hobby and good info..

NICE! I gotta get nalbinding down. Great work!

Great video...I imagine that fabulous thick fabric you're creating would be invaluable anywhere with really cold winters, like Scandinavia and others.🤔

Wow… that’s awesome. I love all the needles. I don’t work with yarn but now you’ve given me an idea as a gift for my granddaughter. Thinking to make a pouch for her. Do you sell any needles? I have bone & ivory that I can make some for her as well.
Oh the reason I saw your video is because I found a pkg of small commercial 2 hole hand needles & I didn’t know how to use them.

I like your technique for pulling yarn through. Personally, I use one big hole and carve the back of the needle to be thinner than the body. This enables me to get up
to 20 strands on my needle at once (by folding the yarn back and forth before threading the needle). That way I can use 12-20 metres of yarn at once without ever having to pull more than one arm spam through on each stitch

What is this magic? I've never seen or heard of it before, but I'm happy to learn.Thank you.

can't see Jeff

Is there a "pattern" you follow for the needle holder? I want to make one 😩

😂 “i have a problem. I can’t see any stuff…”
I was asking “why so many needles?” 😅
I was in a beach last week and saw a fisherman weaving a net with a kind of wood needle. I began to think about doing it too! So I found nalbiding! I had never been heard about this before! 😮

I don't know why, but I want all those needles lol.  They just look so cool.  Are they all wood or is some of them bone or antler?  I have this urge to make one now.