Can knitting needles, crochet hooks, sewing needles, or craft supplies break?

Dear users and authors,
do your knitting needles, crochet hooks, sewing needles, or craft supplies ever break?
Can you fix them, or do you have to buy new ones?

Oh yes, they can break. And I’ve had this “pleasure” not only with cheap needles, but also with expensive ones—namely, those from KnitPro. You can’t repair them, so you’ll probably have to get new ones.

And as for whether they can break—unfortunately, that’s happened to me quite often with KnitPro.
You can’t fix them; they’re just trash at that point.

It’s happened to me too—just like it did to Moni with the KnitPro needles, specifically the thinner ones.
I accidentally sat on them… snap.

I haven’t had that problem with crochet hooks yet,
but I’ve heard others talk about it.

Well, so far, my crochet hooks have only broken when I’ve used them for something other than their intended purpose 🙂

It’s happened to me, too! Plus, the tips of wooden needles (even expensive ones) have split, rendering them unusable.

I knitted my last blanket with 2.5 mm needles. I used an aluminum needle, and it kept bending on me. That had never happened to me before. Then I thought, okay, buy yourself some new ones, and I started looking for 2.5 circular knitting needles with a cable length of 120 m. In the third shop, they finally had that size and length in stock. Such beautiful needles, made of wood. But after a few rounds, one of the needles broke.

If I now read the posts above, I wonder whether it really was down to me or to the needle brand. 

I have to admit that I’ve broken several needles before, but otherwise only when I sat on them or when I held the needles the wrong way while screwing them onto the cables. 

Unfortunately, I’m pretty good at breaking crochet hooks...

I always crochet figures quite tightly, so I’ve already broken quite a few.

Most of the time, the hook comes out of the handle, so I glue it back in with superglue.



If the handle breaks, I’ve sometimes covered it with Fimo. It works great for crocheting that way.



And when the metal hook does actually break every now and then, I like to repurpose it—for example, into jewelry.



But that only happens to me with hooks up to size 2.5...

Oh yes, that’s happened to me too—Knit Pro knitting needles up to size 3 tend to break, and sometimes pretty quickly. Bamboo needles just bend for me; they all have a slight curve to them somehow.

Claudia, you have some great ideas. I really, really like the necklace. And the idea with Fimo—brilliant. 

I haven’t broken any crochet hooks yet; mine just wobble a bit suspiciously. 

Thanks, Petra.
I have a few that wobble, too... they’ve been doing that for years.

I always keep a few spare needles at home so I don’t have to stop working 🤣