Warning: more knitting tech-talk follows. If you don't understand the headline, you can stop reading now. ;-) And for those of you who DO understand the headline, your ideas, experience and suggestions are welcome and wanted.

Anyway, this evening I sat down with the only "pair" of circular needles I have (size 3s; one addi turbo, the other bamboo) and some Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino (color #503) to give Cat Bordi's two-circular-needle sock knitting method a try.

I'm not convinced.

I figured out the basics of the method and have the sock cuff going now - 6 or 7 rows or so - but I'm not sure I like the results. Despite trying to keep the 'joins' fairly taut as I switched needles, I still ended up wth a bit of a 'ladder' in between the stitches, which I'm not at all happy with. I think I am going to keep knitting on this sock for a bit, just to see what the resulting fabric looks like - particularly at the joins - but I may end up pulling it out again...

My next experiment may be the method Laura suggested - the Magic Loop method, which is similar to the two-circular needle method but uses only one long circular that is doubled up in some way that I don't quite understand yet. My only reservation with giving this a try is the need to buy a 40" needle in a size 1 or 2. If I don't like it, I'm stuck with a REALLY long needle in a tiny little size...

Maybe I'll just skip it altogether and use dpns - they weren't so bad with that first pair of socks, after all. And the bamboo dpns are usually cheaper than the addi turbos...

Decisions decisions...