Circular needles, cable twisting

[Nikki8D]

I'm knitting a flat project on circular needles, but the next project I want to knit is in the round. The problem is my cables keep curling back into the packaged shape. How do I fix this without ruining my needles?

Apologies if this has been asked and answered before, I couldn't seem to find it.

[Mirl56]

Try this - hold the 2 ends in each hand. turn on the hot water in your kitchen sink. Hold the needle stretched out straight and run it under the hot water end to end for a few minutes. Take away from the hot water and keep holding it stretched out until it cools off.

Sometimes this helps.

[suzeeq]

What Marilyn said. And with some needles, hot tap water isn't hot enough; boil some water and dip the cords into it. For about a minute or two. Sometimes you have to do this a couple times.

[Nikki8D]

Thanks so much!

[cacunn]

Be careful to keep the joins away from the hot water as much as possible. This might loosen the join.