- When using straight needles, the yarn pulls itself over the needle with minimal work on your part. Circular needles, especially cheap ones, catch the yarn on their wonky circley circular parts and you have to move each piece up by hand.
- Circular needles come not only in different sizes, but in different lengths too, so if you have a 16" US 8 needle, but you need a 30" US 8 needle you have to go buy a new needle.
- You can get cheap straight needles even at most dollar stores. Circular needles are much harder to find, and are more expensive to boot.
Obviously the devil invented circular needles to delude poor knitters into thinking that they are better than regular, historically efficient straight needles. Not only do they cost more, but they are less comfortable and slower to use too.
Tune in next time for further debate: Metal, plastic, or wood?
P.S. If you like circular needles, you go ahead honey. I personally don't, and this post is for fun only, so don't leave me any mad comments, just go on with your bad circular self.
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