I’m just not very confident that I understand the basic sock construction enough to think of it in a 2 dimensional way (2 needles, magic loop style) vs. having the socks divided onto 3 or 4 DPNs. See, when I’m reading a pattern meant to be done on DPNs, it’ll get really specific about how to divide stitches onto 3 various needles and what to do with each of them – I can’t seem to wrap my head around the idea of how to do this with only two needles when I’m doing magic loop.
As an example question, if I’m using two needles magic loop style and it’s time to do the heel, since I should already have half of the stitches on one side (and the other half on the other needle) I don’t really need to shuffle stitches around – I just work the heel on one side only and leave the other stitches be, right? That seems simple enough, but then most instructions for DPNs get really specific after that point about “pick up x stitches on needle 1, x stitches on needle 2, x stitches on needle 3” and since I’m such a sock-knitting noob, if I don’t follow the instructions to the letter I get confused. With magic loop I’d only have 2 needles to work with so I’m not sure how to divide the stitches up back on the two needles to keep going properly after the heel. I’m sure I’m making much more of this than it is.
Someone tell me one simple sentence to make this click. Like, “Shut up and just do it.” or “Suck it up and try it, you just need to keep in mind blah blah blah.”
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