*nodnod* The watchwords of socks on two circs are thus:
"One needle works while the other rests": in the normal passage of things, stitches from needle A will never be on needle B. As you first learn this technique, you may screw this up once or twice (I did!). The major exception to this is at the Turning of the Heel: where you would have used one DPN and worked back and forth for the heel flap, now you use one circular there instead, with the instep (plus gusset, depending on pattern) on the other. The minor exception is that when your pattern says stitches ought to move from one needle to another, they still may.
If it's a pattern intended for three DPN's, then it's Knitters' Choice whether two DPN's worth goes on one circ and one DPN's worth on the other, or, if pattern permits (e.g. a fairly narrow motif), the stitches might be spread evenly across both circular needles.
If this daunts, do not stress: it's not as hard as me talking three sides around the square just made it sound. If you're comfortable with fudging patterns for changing conditions, this is more of that.
Two circs, like Magic Loop (sock on one loooooong circ), allow one to commit a simultaneous pair of parallel socks. I did this once to prove it to myself, but haven't gone back.
IMO, two circs is roughly half the fiddling of DPN's, and Magic Loop is as/somewhat more fiddly than DPN's. YMMV, etc. 8-)
I've considered learning Magic Loop; the knitters at the LYS are divided on the technique. Some swear by it, others swear at it. If I'm going to learn a non-DPN method for socks, I think it would be using two circulars. The "which brand of needle" dilemma still stands, though. I've been eying Hiya Hiya circs for a while. If the LYS has the right kind in stock I might purchase those.
"One needle works while the other rests": in the normal passage of things, stitches from needle A will never be on needle B. As you first learn this technique, you may screw this up once or twice (I did!). The major exception to this is at the Turning of the Heel: where you would have used one DPN and worked back and forth for the heel flap, now you use one circular there instead, with the instep (plus gusset, depending on pattern) on the other. The minor exception is that when your pattern says stitches ought to move from one needle to another, they still may.
If it's a pattern intended for three DPN's, then it's Knitters' Choice whether two DPN's worth goes on one circ and one DPN's worth on the other, or, if pattern permits (e.g. a fairly narrow motif), the stitches might be spread evenly across both circular needles.
If this daunts, do not stress: it's not as hard as me talking three sides around the square just made it sound. If you're comfortable with fudging patterns for changing conditions, this is more of that.
Two circs, like Magic Loop (sock on one loooooong circ), allow one to commit a simultaneous pair of parallel socks. I did this once to prove it to myself, but haven't gone back.
IMO, two circs is roughly half the fiddling of DPN's, and Magic Loop is as/somewhat more fiddly than DPN's. YMMV, etc. 8-)
-- Lorrie
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