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How to join double pointed needles. Cast on the number of stitches required for your pattern plus one more onto a single dpn (so if your pattern says to cast on. A standard longtail cast on with two needles. Showing an easy way to avoid that and create a tight joi.

Now, pick up the third needle, hold it beside the first 2 and cast on the final 8 stitches. When the needle in your left hand is empty,. Double pointed needles are necessary for knitting in the round when the number of stitches around is few to fit on a regular circular needle.

Watch just how incredibly simple it is! Continue wrapping the working yarn around needle 4 as if to knit. Before circular needles were invented, double pointed needles were the only way to go:

Bring the yarn to the front between the needles, bring the empty needle under the yarn, and insert it to purl. Knit into the first stitch on needle 1. How to join knitting in the round.

To begin, cast on as many stitches as your pattern requires using a single needle of your set. Get ready to join in the round. Slip the first stitch on the right needle to the left needle.

When you finish knitting the stitches on that first staging needle, your empty needle is ready to move onto the second staging needle. Now you will make the needles. Make sure that the yarn is in back of your work.