Hi Steph - Years ago, when I was knitting a lot, I was given a lovely zippered case which had all the circular needle "tips" along with various lengths of the nylon "spanners" that screwed into the tips to form your circular needles. The set includes a number of connectors so that if the longest needles aren't long enough, you may join two or three to make your needles as long as you want.
The set was not "inexpensive" at the time, and since knitting is not at the top of my list any more, I don't know if the set is still available. However, specialty catalogues aimed at knitters are sure to have them - if they still exist!! Clay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steph Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 3:47 PM Subject: [lace] Circular knitting needles > This talk of knitted shawls reminds me of a conversation at a social event > recently. My acquaintance's mother-in-law is a knitter, and is currently > working on a circular tablecloth. Either there's a mistake in the pattern > or she has made an error because it isn't working out right; in particular > she has many more stitches than suggested. However it looks fine, so she is > going to keep on until it fits the table she wants it for. However her > problem is that she has too many stitches to fit on her circular needle, and > doesn't want to use a set of double ended ones. My acquaintance was > supposed to be letting me know what size needle, but obviously his > mother-in-law's knitting needs aren't top of his agenda. I've already made > the suggestion of using 3 circular needles, so that the knitting spans two > of them with a third to knit onto and off, but I'd like to know are there > any sources of circular needles that are longer than normal. > -- > Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level Quentin Crisp > Steph Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tatting, lace & stitching page <http://www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk/index.htm> > > Scanned by WinProxy > http://www.Ositis.com/ > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
