help with sleeve for sweater

I meant to say the double points did not seem to work that well. Kristine

Use more DPNs, or use two circs of the requisite size.

Seams are evil :)

On 20 Dec 2005 11:39:09 -0800, "Kristine" spewed forth :

Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET. This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%. Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account...

For that number of stitches, I would use DPNs. Maybe more than 4, but not circulars.

HTH Katherine

If your circular is TOO long you should have a loop, on which you have no stiches and frokm time to time Pull the loop further mirjam

I agree whole-heartedly. Another option is to use one very long circ and pull a loop of cord out between two halves of the stitches (uh, if that isn't clear enough which I suspect it is not since I'm not thinking straight right now, search for "magic loop method").

LauraJ

"Kristine" skrev i melding news: snipped-for-privacy@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...

I use DPN. A too short circlular is very disturbing to work with, and I am not very fond of "looping" a too long one. (I only do so if I haven't the right DPN!..If I HAVE to!) I feel it more easy, and my work "float better" with 4+1 DPN (or more), as others also say here. AUD ;-)

Thanks everyone. I have the book about the magic loop and then printed out the instructions for using two circulars. I was only using 3+1 DPN so I may also experiment with 4+1. I sure am glad that no one in my family expects me to have their christmas presents to them on time.

Aud i `collect` ,, groups of Dp ,,this way i can work with 5 -8 ,, or while doing the sleeves , work alternately on both .... I must admit you ladies made me wish and try the 2 cirks system ,,,, TUT TUT ,,, finnished a shrug [ and sent it to friend] am now facing a sweater i strated [ SHAME SHME ] 2 winters ago , it is a Domino with collors , played too much with the domino conception amd got a bit lost ,,,, yesterday asked son to wear it i have only one sleeve to do and than knit it downwards to make the lenght long enough ... dug into THE BAGS , and found 1 almost done very stripy carzy sweater ,,,, with only 2 last parts of sleeves to knit ,, and loads of finnishing ,,,,, and one Shawl ,,, shawl , should wait i am now tackiling Son`s sweater..... The swaeter for me is made from a wool that has variating thickness i knitted it from hem to hem over the shoulder making vertical color stripes , i knotted the threads after changing colors and want to make a rather `intersting ending hem .... mirjam