Circular knitting: yes, you can!
knitting a sock with two circular knitting needles
I’ve been trying to knit this blasted first sock for years and after all this time I have become wary of stuff like ‘knitting for absolute beginners’ etc. DPNS are simply out of my league, but last week I saw a video on circular knitting by Cat Bordhi and it looked totally doable. I stormed onto eBay and ordered my own set. It’s eight days later now and yes, they have arrived. Here in Spain, these things take their time 
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I was slightly disappointed with my circular knitting needles, let’s call ‘m ckns, because I wanted the nice chunky ones that Cat has in the video and I got much smaller ones. My own fault entirely, of course, because I ordered 4 mm ckns, but then again, these figures mean nothing to me. Next time I’ll know to get at least 10 mm and to ask for chunky yarn. You live and learn……
You cast on just as with regular dpkns, and then you move half your stitches to the other ckn. I repeat: the OTHER ckn!
Yes, I know, it’s kinda obvious once you think about it. Anyway, I had a lot of trouble getting half the stitches from one ckn to the other so in the end I stuck the ‘new’ needle into the stitches from above and basically ‘stabbed’ them onto it. And it worked.
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