Sure, but I can play, can’t I? The current project is on 6 1/2 mm needles and 160 stitches, this is working out at 1.35m wide (4ft or thereabouts). I have fatter (12mm), shorter needles, that yielded 1.2m of fabric off 60 stitches in a fluffier yarn.
I have a skein and a bit of wool and an entire winter to experiment with! And a Uncle and Auntie both soon going to be post-op and possibly in need of knee rugs.
I don’t see any way I can stop you from playing. I was just giving some advice about my experiences. With such large needles, you might very well be able to make some lap blankets, which will probably be very happily received.
You could knit the blanket on a very long circular needle, and just act like you’re knitting on two regular needles. My mom knits afghans that way. Don’t want to imagine what the diagonal dimension does to the stitch count though!
I keep trying to gt my mother to use circular needles that way. She knits baby blankets on the diagonal, on regular needles. When she’s doing rows towards the middle, her stitches are crammed on so tightly it’s amazing they don’t slip off when she’s done with a row. She has her methods, though.
I’ll see what’s in the budget for more needles.
Something I thought of last night for booties, my mother would knit quite plain ones, with a lacework row (increase one, knit2tog) though the ankle, then she’d thread a pretty ribbon through that section. It looked really neat and meant I could attach the booties a little more firmly during the ‘fling everything off’ phase.
I don’t even bother with straight needles any more. I love my circular needles.
Me, too. Besides being convenient (I’ve never dropped one end in the car and been unable to find it, for instance), I find they’re easier on my wrists.