Tag: 2 circs

Good Ol’ Sleeves

I know I’ll be really glad I have long sleeves on this sweater. I know that, but … sleeves, OMG, do they have to take soooo long?

About 4 years ago I started this: Two Sleeves on 2 circs. It’s the same as working socks two at a time. If you’ve done that, this might be for you.

No second sleeve syndrome for me.

So here I am with the purple sleeves of my 6×6 Cardigan. I knit one inch of knitting on each sleeve separately. Then I slipped the stitches of the sleeves onto two circular needles with the underarm sections facing each other. (You might be able to see that one circular has a blue cord and the other has a red cord.) I put a big pin in the fabric at the underarms of the sleeves to hold them in position on the two circular needles. I’m only about 2″ in so far, with many hours ahead of me.

You know that I really, really, want to cast on something new right now. I’m resisting so far. I can do this, I can, I can?!

Cheers, Deb

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Two Sleeves on 2 circs

I ran across an idea, from Socks Soar on Two Circulars by Cat Bordhi, where she knits a sock on two circular needles instead of many double pointed needles. If you can knit one sock, why not two socks? So I tried it. I found it easier than I thought it might be and better for me than using the Magic Loop technique.

I put a photo up on instagram and my friend Nancy mentioned that she knits 2 sleeves at the same time. I was knitting away on my newest top down sweater and thinking, two sleeves at the same time, two sleeves at the same time. Wait one friggin’ minute. Could I knit 2 sleeves at the same time on a Top Down sweater? I just happen to have one with 2 sleeves to knit so …

… there they are. Two sleeves being knit at the same time, on 2 circular needles with 2 balls of wool. It took some fiddling to get them going. OK, it took more than a little bit of fiddling but there they are. I’m amazed. It’s not that hard. Really it wasn’t that bad.

They work a little bit differently than the socks did because there is a whole knitted sweater body there too. I had to move the beginning of the round to the middle so the body didn’t get too munched. The orange marker in the fabric of the left sleeve is there to indicate the beginning of the round for both the sleeves. It only matters for the decrease round.

I’m finding this quite satisfying to do. Here’s my progress so far.

You’ll see at the bottom there, that they are still on the two circs. When I’m working on the sleeves I use a safety pin to hold the sleeves close to each other but I wanted to see how they were looking. Not bad, eh?

Do you know that auto-correct does not like the word circ. It wants to make it all kinds of other things. Isn’t circ a word? It is to me.

Stay safe and keep on keeping on, Deb

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