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Help on two circs please

Hello all, I have started my Pi Shawl with sleeves that I found in a Knitters dozen .I am useing Lamb's pride wool/mohair as the pattern calls for bulky yarn. My problem is that I have way too many stitches now to use just one circular needle( 29" as called for in the pattern ). I tried putting it on two but found it frustrating that I have to slip the stitches from one to the other about 1/2 way thru one circ. Am I doing this correctly or should I just be able to keep knitting? I know with dpn's you keep changeing needles as you go but with only two circs this would be odd to do . Should I add a thrid circ and knit as if I was on dpn's? I am lost....... but such is life these days. Thanks for any help you can give me. Coggie

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coggietm
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Coggie if you feel comfartable with 3 circs why not do it , i have done it onceand it was a relief , just felt like working with `Bigger` dps mirjam

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen

What Amanda said. Put half the stitches on one needle and half on the other, then work each half onto its own needle. Or, work with three needles - divide the stitches in half and then use the third circ as if its the spare needle on a sock.

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Wooly

The key is to keep a big "loop" of the circular tubing in between the two sides of the stitches so it will feel like you're working on two separate halves instead of one big round.

LauraJ

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Laura J

Oh wait, I'm thinking one long circular. But I believe the same concept applies for two?

LauraJ

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Laura J

When you're working with two circs you treat the stitches on one needle as one set of stitches and just work those stitches onto the needle they're already on - endless do-loop sort of thing. Almost as if you have two separate projects going, each on its own needle, that happen to both be using the same ball of yarn.

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:23:15 GMT, "Laura J" spewed forth :

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Wooly

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