planar curved forward ends and have a pair of eyes 30 and 32 eye 30 being located at a forward tip of the needle and eye 32 being located at the rear of the curved forward end on a projecting portion 33 of the needle as clearly shown the eyes each have an axis perpendicular to the plane of the curved forward end of the needle further the needles are channel shaped in cross section up to an intermediate point approximately at the crest of the curved portion and the remainder of the curved portion up to the tip is an extension of one wall only of the channel the needles are threaded with the yarn 18 from a yarn supply first through eye 32 the yarn then extending along the needle channel and passing through eye 30 onto the rods 1 and 2 in operation as shown in fig1 there are six needles 11 12 13 14 15 and 16 which can be used with different yarns as to color and or quality for knitting each needle is manipulated with the rods 1 and 2 in turns according to the pattern and the type of knitting fabric to be obtained when one needle has completed a knitting operation it is deposited in a groove on the support 3 on the side opposite that from which it was taken before starting the knitting operation in fig1 needle 11 is shown with the yarn which has already been used and put down in groove 29 while this needle was in operation the other needles 12 13 14 15 and 16 were deposited in grooves on the right of.