r/VintageKnitting • u/girlwithallthecrafts • Sep 21 '26

Straight needles vs circular

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I'm planning on knitting a children's intarsia sweater and was wondering if there was any sort of advantage to knitting on straight needles vs using circular (which I use for almost all of my modern knitting, even not in the round stuff).šŸ¤”

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u/MaidenMarewa Sep 21 '26

Nope. Whatever works best for you. There aren't rules.

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u/SadElevator2008 Sep 21 '26

Back and forth on a circular is the way Iā€™d do it! If you have straight needles you like using, feel free, but I prefer my circulars.

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u/Eurogal2023 Sep 21 '26

Intarsia basically only makes sense on straight needles. Otherwise you end up with extremely long floats or thousands of little wool bits needing to be woven in later.

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u/JacTallulah Sep 21 '26

Intarsia is easiest to work flat, but you can do that in circular needles just as well

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u/Eurogal2023 Sep 23 '26

Sorry for being unclear, thats what I meant

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u/zorbina Sep 23 '26

You can certainly knit flat on circular needles.