I am making a cardigan for a 4 year old. It is knitted top down, no seams, and I have done everything except the sleeves. The pattern says 'Place the sleeve sts onto larger long circular needle / dpns'. This is the 4mm circular needle that I have been using for the main part of the cardigan. The cable is 40cm and the needles are the standard 10.5cm each. There is surely no way that a 54 stitch sleeve can be knitted in the round on a cable needle that long!!?
Anyway, I bought a very small, 25cm (total length), Knitpro circular needle, which has 6cm needle tips. There is no question that the sleeve can be knitted on this, I'm just not sure whether I can cope with needle tips this short.
Am I going to have to use dpns? I can, I just don't like them.
Presumably even the shorter needle tips (roughly 8.5cm) with a 20cm cable would still be far too long.
What would you do?