Most sock patterns always recommend “dpn”s and I find it so difficult to decide how to arrange the stitches if I want to knit the socks in circular needles/ magic loop.
Would you offer some light on this?? Much appreciated
Have you tried using markers to mark what would have been the ends of the dpns?
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No, I never have used markers with the dpn’s, wouldn’t know where to mark? Besides I prefer to knit with circulars, but when making a sock, I don’t know how to divide the sts.
They usually tell you how many to put on each needle, put markers at those points, on your circular. For example:
Cast on 50 stitches and divide evenly among 3 double-pointed needles. It doesn’t divide perfectly evenly, but you could put markers at 16 and then 17 (leaving 17 to BOR), as well as your BOR marker.
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I don’t do socks but I do use markers for various reasons. I sometimes select certain colour markers to denote certain sections. In this case with magic loop, where dpns are named 1, 2, 3 in a pattern, you could translate that onto the circular needle by seperating the stitches with markers, yellow for needle 1, blue for needle 2, and green for needle 3. You’d have all your stitches on the circular cable but they would then be seperated in the same way as they would have been on dpns.
If you don’t have markers you can make some with coloured yarn loops or there are various hacks for making markers.
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Normally, for magic loop, the top side of the sock goes on one needle and the back side & heel go on the other needle. You could put markers where the start and end of each DPN would be, or just the ends of the DPNs if it’s a four DPN pattern. I’m guessing one needle would be the same as two DPNs. I think if you just start, it will magically come to you! There are gobs of patterns for magic loop, so maybe start with one of those.
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