Here are some pics sent to me by Gail, one of the other participants in the Human Knitting Machine last Friday:

I was on the far left and, as you can see, not really able to whip my camera out to catch the moment.

I think they were unraveling it so people could have a go each day. If you finished with a cast off it would be an amazing blanket – but expensive. The knitted strip yarn they’d made was only acrylic, but even so there was hundreds of dollars worth in it.

There are other ways you could make or find yarn this chunky, though. A sewn tube stuffed with padding. Cheap jersey fabric cut into strips. Multiple strands of fabric selvedges. And if you had something too rough for a blanket, make a floor rug instead.