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
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:27:31 -0600, Sue wrote:
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.
How long is her current set of
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
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.
How long is her current set of circular needles? Looking through my
collection they
to have them - if they
still exist!!
Clay
- Original Message -
From: Steph Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lace@arachne.com
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
