Extreme Knitting

I wonder what's she's making?

She's making a throw.

Sounds like a really quick way of making something big like a throw. Not heard of it before.

It does grow quickly - if you can stand holding the needles for more than 10 minutes! I had a go at it once (with needles made from broom handles) and found it really hard to manipulate the wretched things. But I guess you could make a throw in a couple of evenings. Type 'extreme knitting' into Google because there is someone called Ingrid (can't remember her surname) who has a funny website all about it.

I thought this extreme knitting would be about the terrible knitters of Dent. There was an article I read years ago in an issue of 'The Dalesman' - apparently these knitters would carry their knitting around in a special holder, and knit at every spare moment at a furious pace. The 'terrible' adjective was not a character assassination of these tough Yorkshirewomen, but related to the terrible, or terrific speed at which they worked.

I don't fancy the broomstick thing - too much like hard work.