What is considered a fast knitting rate?

This one is tough for me. I often knit when watching TV, movies, or a hockey game, and I’m always dropping stitches and having to stop and fix them.

Slow, real slow. If I’m focused, a scarf takes me over a week. :) I’ve been working on Amoebic’s fiance’s scarf for 2 years now, hahaha!

It depends on the size of the needles and the type of yarn. With big needles, a project can be started and finished in a few hours. With smaller needles, and a complicated pattern, such as lace, it would take days.

Your question doesn’t give enough information. You cast 20 stitches, and then what do you do with them? If I were making a pot holder, or coaster, which is about the size of 20 stitches, it would take me a couple of hours.

When I am sitting out by the pool all alone, I can usually knit about one inch (20 stitches across)every 15 minutes or so. When I am in the play room with my grandson, or the dog wants me to throw his ball every two minutes, it takes a lot, lot longer.

It depends a lot on the size of the needle and the type of yarn, as YARNLADY says. The type of stitch also matters. There’s a big difference between fingering weight yarn on size 1 needles making something lacy and bulky weight on 12s in a garter stitch.

I usually don’t do straight knitting because it’s not very interesting, so it usually depends on how much I’ve already established the pattern, too. Have I been knitting the same cables or lacy stitch for a while or is there a big change coming? Am I counting or is the pattern clearly seen without counting?

I can knit a crew sized sock in one evening and start on the second one (if I’m working on one at a time) or a glove can take two evenings. But I can also make a good-sized adult scarf in one late afternoon and evening.