Removing kilt basting: the ideal tool!!

[Barb T]

I just stumbled on the ideal tool for removing kilt basting - a knitter's cable stitch needle. It fits comfortably in your fingers and is easy to slip under basting threads to pull them out. The end is pointy enough to work but not pointy enough to snag the kilt. I've seen pics here on the forum of people slipping knife blades under kilt basting to remove it, and I've nearly had a heart attack!

NOTE! Since the time when I originally made this post, I have discovered that, if you use a plastic cable needle to take the basting out of more than a couple kilts, the thread actually wears deep grooves in the plastic. I now use a METAL cable needle!

Anyway, here are some pics:



Fits comfortably in the fingers.


Just slip under, and pull out.