at a cost of less than 10 for 18 needles you can not really complain. I had decided on these needles, as I do not exactly know if I still "a lot" would knit and thought for the price is the total ok - I ordered. However, I now had to festellen that to me. In a larger project, just as it did in other Rezesionen, the tube is slipped out After the first small panic of losing my stitches I could thread it all back. My advice to the needles: if you know the work you're planning a number of projects, it indulges you and invests in good "expensive" needles. I have now bought from Knit Pro needles and they are great!