Pondering about knitting 2 sleeves inside each other on same [long] circular

Have finnaly finnished the body of [ last year Cast On and started] Petrol sweater and cast on stiches on the armholes ,,, knitted 5 rounds on each sleeve and am pondering if i could put them both on one [long ] circular needle and knit them this way like some of you do with socks ? it might keep the round counting easier to do and i wil finnish both sleeves at once , which is the only thing i like less about seamless knitting ,,,,, i might just go along and try it and tell you all how it goes ,,,, i understand that by folding it one into the other i will get one sleeve with the right side out =knit , and one with thw wrong side outwards = purl it ???? mirjam

Ok it didn`t work , putting the sleeves one into the other ,, i found that the knitting had to go in opposite ,, tried to work them one after the other , the 2 balls got tnagles ,,, so i am back at knitting one after the other , but will make it 5 round on 1 and 5 rounds on

Most people who knit two socks at once on one long circular needle don't do it by doubleknitting one inside the other. They just use the long needle like two shorter circular needles, and do the magic loop method, one sock in one place and one sock farther along.

Double knitting one inside the other will loosen your gauge because the yarn has to travel across a stitch on the other item to get to its own next stitch.

I see you have decided against it anyway because of the complications of double-knitting. I think it is possible to knit one inside the other and have both facing outward with the spiral of stitches going the same way, but it's simpler just to work on them alternately.

=Tamar

Tamar Good morning ,, i have to explain i DID not want to knit my sleeves in the double knitting method as this would be too loose, and after all i want two sleeves not one ,, double knitting is fine when i want it to stay double ,, that i am mixing two colors etc,,,, I just thought to use one long circular and like knitting the Moebious , have a long row across both sleeves at the smae time ,, and remamber both my sleeves are closed rounds thus my circular goes really over one circle and than should go to the next circle ,,, but come to think of it if i want to keep the 2 circles = knit in a spiral ,, i reall should use 2 circular needles ,,,because once i finnished the 2 rounds i have to have a 2 `points` of needles to work with , but i don`t ,,,, i have one on one sleeve and the other on the other sleeves and i didn`t see where i could start knitting ,,,,,, i also foud the two balls were an extra nuissance at that point ,, Today i will see if the idea of using 2 circulars will work i mean once i finnished both sleeves to start another round to take a

It would be possible, with the magic loop method. The needle goes across half the stitches of sleeve A and half the stitches of sleeve B. Then it goes through the second half of the stiches of sleeve B and then through the second half of the stitches of sleeve A. The stitches where the needle goes to the next sleeve are a little more strained, but some people find that isn't a problem for them. I guess it comes out in the blocking.

Both points move along together, just as in any circular knitting.

That is a perfectly good reason to choose another method.

That will probably be easier to figure out. I admit I haven't made the magic loop work for me properly; the overstressed stitches make too big a hole for my taste, and setting up the loops again every time I knit up to them is a nuisance. I think if I had to do a lot of production sock knitting that I would use two circulars.

=Tamar

this method of doing both sleeves at once is getting into the area of "knitting short-short cuts" that in reality do not, in my opinion, rate well.

When you do both on the same needle (inside the other) you are going to end up with sleeves that are looser knit than if you had done them separately, or one sleeve will be slightly larger than the other. Not to mention the care you need to take to watch all of it.

I do both simultaneously... on one big circular needle (flat ...not in the round) by casting on separate balls for each sleeve on one needle. This way you end up with the sleeve that was meant to be and the other right along with it... duplicated row by row. If you have a complicated pattern it works just as well.

Too many 'nifty' shortcuts sometimes are not what they seem. Put the work in and you will get a beautiful piece of work. Shortcut it and suffer.