If you use bamboo knitting needles please be aware that they will only last for about 200 knitting projects before you start to hear a cracking or wood splitting sound. Other knitting needles tend to do this but take many years to reach this point. Do not try to finish your project. There is nothing worse than having a knitting needle crack mid row while knitting. It can be a disaster and damage your yarn or an awful lot of stitches can drop. Go to your local yarn store and get a really good pair of knitting needles. Then transfer your knitting to the new knitting needles immediately.
Don’t worry, the soon to break knitting needles can still be used in your garden to hold seed signs or prop up a plant. I am not sure that they can be composted because they typically have a finish of varnish.
If you like wooden knitting needles and do a lot of knitting there are plenty of work arounds for this. You will have to pay more but the price difference is well worth it. I would recommend a hard wood knitting needle like Brittney or Lantern Moon. Lantern Moon uses ebony which is one of the hardest commercially used woods.
