Dear Steph
Assuing your friend simply needs a full-sized circular
needle - a 100cm one more than takes enough for a 45"
square shawl, and far more than can be crammed safely
or not on a set of 5 16" wires (personal experience!).
However, she may find a tip of E Zimmermann's useful:
run a thread through the work a little way below the
stitches, and draw it together to compact the stitches
on the needle. Can't speak from personal experience
there.
BTW, the shawl I'm working on has not been finished,
but it's worked by knitting the border first, a long
strip on 10-14 stitches, and then 768 stitches from
the inside side of it are picked up on the circular
needle, and you work from the outside in, decreasing
at the corners, and eventually do have to finish up on
a set of 5 needles. I've found a 60cm circular needle
more than enough, even without the draw-string. I
understand the way of working is not traditional, but
it's from Gladys Amedro's book published by the
Shetland Times, so good enough for those south of
Watford! It has the advantage of doing the longest
work first, when you need the practice to get used to
the pattern, then speeding up as the rows shortern as
patience goes, and no boring border at the end (of
course, you do have to do it at the beginning...)
All the best for 2005
Leonard
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