Around here, people like to talk about their "quiver" of skis and snowboards.
I have a quiver of knitting needles.
There are at least four different needle attributes: kinds, materials, sizes and lengths. The most usual choices are:
- straight
- circular
- double-pointed
- aluminum
- steel
- wood
- bamboo
- plastic
- casein
- diameter sizes 0000 to 50
- lengths from 4" to 60"
Since I'm only working at a fifth-grade math, I won't do the calculations to come up with the number of permutations. (Next year: sixth grade.) Also, not all parameters are available in all needles, but you get the point, or double-point. (knitting joke!)
Anyway, right now I'm knitting socks on size 1's. (Or actually 1.5's, due to some confusion between metric and non-). They're pretty skinny. I feel quite dainty and pretty using the little needles - much more refined. The downside to these is that you knit and knit and knit and you've maybe gone an inch over an hour. In contrast to the fat boys, (35's in the shot below) two rows is an inch.
Ah well, it's the process, not the product, right? So I keep telling myself, while I wield these little toothpicks with fine thread-like yarn.
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