segment 510 is semi rigid and the second 520 can be constructed from a non rigid material that deforms when stabbed against a head or other portion of a body yet have enough rigidity to manipulate the yarn for example the second segment 520 can be a rubber type pencil eraser with a coated surface to allow smooth knitting contemplated segments can be held together frictionally magnetically threadably adhesively using a snap or twist and lock fitting or in any other suitable manner that composes the functional needle fig5 b illustrates some of these mechanisms specifically a snap fitting 531 magnet 532 twist and lock mechanism 533 and finger joint mechanism 534 in fig6 a the two segments that form the needle 600 are slotted and mate in a finger joint fashion in that manner segments 610 and 620 interlock lengthwise to form a cylindrical needle with a cross section 630 in this embodiment the two segments can both be non rigid or one non rigid and the other semi rigid fig6 b depicts alternative designs having the cross sections 631 632 shown yet in another embodiment shown in fig7 the second segment 720 has the knitting tip 716 disposed on the distal end here segment 720 is semi rigid and the first segment 710 is non rigid and wrapped around the second segment to form the knitting needle 700 for example the second segment can be a rubber.