[NFB-Krafters-Korner] Straight vs circular

[Tracy Carcione]

Lisa Marie, and anyone else new to knitting,

The different sizes of needles are just different thicknesses, creating
different gauge and tightness or looseness of knitting.

Circular needles look like 2 short straight needles connected by a thin
cable.  The needle parts of mine are about the length of my hand from my
longest fingertip to my wrist.

 

I strongly prefer circular needles.  For me, the length of straight needles
seems to get in my way.  I have my hands up near the tips, and then there's
all this needle waving around at the back end, bumping into things.  I use
circs for everything, even plain flat knitting. I gave away almost all my
straight needles a couple years ago, and haven't missed them at all.

But other people feel differently.

Tracy