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When I was growing up I always had a
drive to be creative and design and make
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and I think that was from mum constantly
encouraging us with the leftover loo roll
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tubes and washing up bottles to create and build. Because when
you're when you're faced with building something that big there's
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also got to be usable. There's a few
design thoughts had to be in there
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like practicalities, weight, strength.
I did quite a lot of research how big is
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the biggest wooden post I can buy? How
heavy would it be? Way heavier than I'd ever
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be able to pick up by myself so I
scrapped that idea and kept right
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rethinking, redrawing, redesigning. The shape of a knitting needle is not
complex. When I unveiled the needles I think I was quite pleased to see a lot
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of people they stopped and they looked
which is well for a positive reason is a
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nice thing it's nice to see people
actually take a second out their day to
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go what's going on over there and then
people started coming over and asking
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and talking and smiling and laughing and
they were all very positive reactions
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I don't consider myself that special I
just like doing things and the fact that
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you know it's recognized to be the biggest
in the world is nice it's really nice
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Everyone's got potential we've got the choice of
do we push ourselves to reach the top of that
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or not there's nothing nothing can stop anyone I
don't think. Give it a go what's the worst that
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can happen? You end up stuck
with two very big sticks
