you should either switch to DPNs or use the magic loop method. You can see that demonstrated for socks on knittinghelp.com but it can be used for any small circumference knitting in the round.
I was thinking of the other methods.. but I thought the pattern would tell you to do that or something.. It doesn't say a thing which isn't really helpful for newbies. Anyway, at least I have this place to ask questions!
If I were to change to the magic loop method using two cables, how would I do that? Because on knittinghelp it only shows that from before the row is connected into a round.
Now that you are ready to ML look at your knitting on the cable. now...look at the cable. pick a place, any place - I prefer to usually do this so that one place is the beginning of the round and one is about half, but whatever you want.
Now...here is the fun part. pinch your cable and pull it out so that it makes a loop. So if you started at the beginning of a round you should have your 2 needles at one end and a nice loop at the other.
From there you can follow the destructions on the ML video pretty easily. you will basically just pull your left needle so that all the stitches are on the cable and work. This gets tricky sometimes if you have just enough stitches on the needles to run them back together, but it isn't a problem, with ML you can continue to readjust.
To be fair to designer, she *does* list double-pointed needles in the "materials needed" section. And the exact point at which the knitter goes from circs to dps depends a lot on the knitter--there are some people who don't mind their stitches really stretched, while I like to have a handful of stitches close to the needle tips at any one time, so I switch to dps quite early in the process.
DPNs, or two circulars, or magic loopirishlacenetAugust 15 2007, 11:48:17 UTC
You'll either need a set of DPNs the same size as the circular needle you're using, or another circular needle (same needle size, possibly different length), or a circular needle with a much longer cable (same needle size, but the cable needs to be long and flexible).
Magic loop is not the same as two circulars.
If you want to change to magic loop, you start knitting onto a circular needle that has a much longer cord. Then, when all the stitches are on that longer needle, you make the loop.
If you want to switch to two circulars, you start knitting onto a second circular. Then, when about half the stitches are on that second circular, you're good to go.
For DPNs, you work about a third of the stitches onto one DPN, a third onto a second DPN, and the rest of the stitches onto a third DPN.
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If I were to change to the magic loop method using two cables, how would I do that? Because on knittinghelp it only shows that from before the row is connected into a round.
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Now that you are ready to ML look at your knitting on the cable. now...look at the cable. pick a place, any place - I prefer to usually do this so that one place is the beginning of the round and one is about half, but whatever you want.
Now...here is the fun part. pinch your cable and pull it out so that it makes a loop. So if you started at the beginning of a round you should have your 2 needles at one end and a nice loop at the other.
From there you can follow the destructions on the ML video pretty easily. you will basically just pull your left needle so that all the stitches are on the cable and work. This gets tricky sometimes if you have just enough stitches on the needles to run them back together, but it isn't a problem, with ML you can continue to readjust.
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Magic loop is not the same as two circulars.
If you want to change to magic loop, you start knitting onto a circular needle that has a much longer cord. Then, when all the stitches are on that longer needle, you make the loop.
If you want to switch to two circulars, you start knitting onto a second circular. Then, when about half the stitches are on that second circular, you're good to go.
For DPNs, you work about a third of the stitches onto one DPN, a third onto a second DPN, and the rest of the stitches onto a third DPN.
knittinghelp.com has videos of working all these methods under Advanced Techniques.
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