Knitting woes

[slemslempike]

I hate sleeves, and I hate dpns, and I can't believe it takes so long to knit a measly 2 inches. Ugh. I need to get more circs so I don't have to fiddle around like this.

Comments

[aldenmacrae.livejournal.com]

Awww, I <3 DPNs, but only for socks. Anything with a larger circumference and they're a pain.

What are you knitting, btw?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

it's this cardigan: www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/vanadium

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Once you go the way of the Knitpicks interchangeable, you will never go back.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I've already got interchangeables.

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Then how not using for sleeves? How?

[white_hart]

This. Magic Loop is your friend!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I don't know how to do it! I tried looking it up and videos, but I have a Block.

[white_hart]

Divide your stitches between the two tips of a long circ, so the points are to the right and you have a big loop on the left. Pull out the tip at the back so the stitches are sitting on the cable (but don't pull it all the way, there should still be a loop on the left), then use that tip to start knitting the stitches on the front tip.

Alternatively, if you have interchangeables you could do two circs by using a size smaller at the end of the circ that you're knitting off, as long as you have the right size on the needle you're making the stitches on your gauge should come out OK and the two-circs method means you're always knitting off one tip onto the other.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Ah, I was foiled by the second loop. Thank you! I've got it now. Still hate sleeves, but it's much more manageable now.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

They are TOO LONG for a small sleeve and I do not have enough needles to have two circs, and I do not know how to magic loop! I am trying to do a magic loop now, I think I've got it wrong but it's better than dpns.

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Hie yourself to City Knitty and get someone to show you. But I used to be anti-magic-loop and got over it - there are actually two loops, if that helps?

[whatho.livejournal.com]

I've never used them but I can't imagine making it beyond, ooh, three stitches before screaming in confusion and accidentally impaling myself and things along those lines. Actually I couldn't handle my circular needle either, though that's probably because it was huge and I was trying to knit a hat for a baby. Mostly I just put up with stitching things together.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Circulars are a bit difficult when they're very long.

[anglaisepaon.livejournal.com]

I like dpns, but I have to admit that, for the last two cardigans I made, both with fingering weight wool, I just knit them flat and seamed them. Boo to sleeves, especially the second one!

(Nice pattern)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Ugh, sleeves. I shall follow your example in future, I think.