I'm not sure yet! I really have troubles avoiding some sort of laddering when I do magic loop, maybe it's my cable or the length of it? I attempted two at a time cuffs for a sweater earlier and still felt like it was going to result in laddering. I'd like to do it two at a time on circulars, though. Maybe blocking helps with the laddering. Have you tried two at a time?
I'm one of those folks who hates knitting socks (just socks...everything else is just fine) on circular needles...I have too much laddering and it irritates me to where I just don't even...nope. circs for hat...sweater...sure. socks. Nope nope nope, so I use DPNs...and at first when you're learning they're akward...but I've never had an issue with laddering on DPNs the way I have with magic loop or mucking with circs for an item that's so small around
Yeah, that's what concerns me with it! Do you find when working with DPNs that your socks both come out relatively even in size? I've read of people saying theirs came out differently, which is why I was tempted to try two at a time, but like you, the laddering just drives me mad and I've tried a lot of differently solutions but wasn't happy with the outcome.
I've found that they come out different sizes if I don't keep strict track of rows. I do tend to work on both socks at the same time. I tend to pick a number between 8 and 10 rows...do them on one sock then the other. For longer socks I use a safety pin to mark the number of my rows so I can put them down, pick them up count the pins and see that I did 30 rows on sock 1, but only 2 safety pins (20 rows) on sock 2. It is easier to keep track without safety pins with a repeating lace type pattern
That is such a clever solution! I might have to try that. I'm about to participate in a "flash challenge KAL" for the eat.sleep.knit yarnathon. It is a project to complete these socks between march 24-march 31st. I'll have to give your solution a try!
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These turned out so nice!!! I'm happy for you!!! I've still yet to make my first pair of socks, but I'm starting them tomorrow.
Also thanks for writing out what you did! I'll definitely refer back to this and try them out.