I did the sleeves for the sweater I am currently making at one time, and will never do them singularly again!!
Nadja, I do it on one long circular, magic Loop. Haven’t ever done anything on 2 circulars.
Actually, I usually just use one circ. That’s enough to hold all those stitches. As explained, I cast on one sleeve (or front) with one ball of yarn, cast on the other with a second. Knit across the first, switch balls, knit across the second - then turn around and come back the other way, purling across one, switch, purl across the other. Make sense?
Am I to understand that you can knit two things in the round at once? Or are you only able to knit one sleeve flat then the other? I figure you must be able to do two in the round, since I’ve heard that is a preferred way to do socks and mittens.
By Magic Loop, are you keeping one sleeve/sock/mitten on one “half” of the needle and the other on the other? (just as if they were two halves of one piece).
I think two techniques are getting mixed together here…
If you’re knitting the sleeves flat and then seaming them, you can cast on to one long circ using two balls of yarn and do a row on each sleeve as you work across. It’s just like regular knitting flat, except that you switch which ball of yarn you’re using when you get to the middle, so the two sides stay unconnected. (Some sweaters have you do this up around the neckline, too, I think… same principle. Two unconnected sections of knitting, but on one long needle.)
If you’re knitting the sleeves in the round, you can do them like the 2-at-once socks in this article, which has you knit one tube inside the other. The stitches of each tube are alternated on the needle. This is what you could use Magic Loop for, although it doesn’t really matter; it works with however you prefer to knit in the round, I think.
Hope that clears things up a little. 
I never thought to do it this way! :oops:
Always do both sleeves at once. In addition to almost always doing both fronts tog, sometimes I’ll do both fronts AND the back at one time (on circ). Gets heavy, tad unwieldy, but sure makes it easy to keep armholes, shoulders, etc aligned.
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I knit flat on one circ. Have not yet graduated to being able to knit in the round on two circs - and especially not yet tried to knit two things in the round on two circs. I’ve seen it, but I don’t “get it”, yet. Someday. But not today.
Please fill us in on how to knit both at the same time,
that sounds like it would take way less time.
There are several descriptions throughout the thread. I posted one myself on page 1, I think it’s the last entry.
Perhaps if you described the part you’re having trouble understanding?
That knitty article rocked my world, I can’t wait to try it.
The knitty article was interesting, but one of the main reasons to knit in the round is less purling, in my opinion anyway. It’s not called Extreme Knitting for nothing!
Magic Loop or 2 circs is much easier to keep straight.