#Magic loop

[textilefile]

guys not to brag but I’ve become friends with a guy whose grandma invented Magic Loop knitting. She is the inventor of Magic Loop. he wants me to meet her, please let me know if anyone has questions for the queen herself, the inventor of Magic Loop and my friend Patrick’s grandma

[the-fiction-will-knit-the-real]

OK, so I've been knitting since 2010, and I just learned 2 things.

[1] Magic loop was invented around 2002

[2] Circular needles were invented in the 1910s

That means that, if you were knitting as recently as just over 100 years ago, you either were knitting with straight needles or with double points

??????????????

I fucking hate straight needles, and I fucking despise double points [personally, I know not everyone does]

I like to imagine knitting as this craft that goes back hundreds of years and connects me to history and all that. And in some ways it is

But then I find out that I've been ALIVE longer than the magic loop method? If my grandmother had been able to teach me to knit [she died around the time I was born but was apparently a very experienced knitter], she wouldn't have even known what magic loop was???????

I also wonder if I would have even liked knitting at all If I was stuck with straight needles and double points

Idk my mind is blown over this and I guess I just need to remember that my knitting is a modern craft that is only in some ways related to historical knitting

[yarnoveralison]

Day 2 of my second pair of socks ever

The progress pic was a little difficult to get today lol I tried real hard to get a good angle. But the heel flap stitches are chefs kisssss!!!!

I’m absolutely loving the way this sock is looking. I was a little nervous because this is my first time doing a pair of short socks. Also I wasn’t too sure if this yarn was a little too thick. It is a fingering / sock weight but it felt a little thicker than my other sock weight yarn.

I’m also happy to say I got a lot more done today than I thought I would 😎 I finished the heel flap, heel turn, and gusset *deep sigh* now just a shit ton of knit rows then the toes!

[kneading-stitches]

Second sock syndrome? Sorry, don't know her 💅🏻

Patons Kroy FX | Celestial Colors

Vanilla Socks on Magic Loop | Crazy Sock Lady Designs

[siriscrafts]

I finished the reversible double-knitted mittens! The symbol on them is from Skyrim. It's the fiery hand of destruction, symbol for the destruction school of magic! I've taken to calling these "the mittens of resist frost".

Pattern was improvised on the go. It was easy because I made these with magic loop, ie. two at the same time on one long circular needle. (Lots of untangling on the go was also required... I also had both ends of one ball of yarn going into each mitten.)

[iplaywithstring]

People were intrigued by doing sleeves two at a time on one needle (magic loop). There are MANY magic loop tutorials/videos that exist, so this is not a full tutorial, just progress pictures because I was picking up sleeves anyway.

You're going to want a longer circular needle for this - 32" ( I think, hard to measure after I've got the sleeves on it). You also need two balls of yarn (unless you work from the outside and inside of one ball of yarn like I do for socks but really I don't recommend following my example on that).

Step 1: Pick up the top of the sleeves. I started about 10 sts from the armpit. Do both sleeves. You're just sliding the stitches onto the needle (I keep my life line/waste yarn in when I do this).

Step 2: Push the work toward the other end of the needle so you leave a gap when you start to pick up the bottom part of the sleeve. You could join your yarn here if you want, but I like to make things difficult for myself and put the join at the underarm, so again, I am just slipping the stitches onto the needle until I get to the underarm. If you join the yarn earlier, go to step 3b

Step 3a: Use knit cast on for under arm stitches.

Step 3b: From this point on you need to knit the stitches onto the needle. This is much easier if you slip the stitches onto the other end of the needle. Don't worry about the stitches from the other sleeve yet because they'll all be transferred to the right needle. Knit until you have knit the remaining stitches from that sleeve

Step 4: take a breath, you've got one sleeve picked up! Now if you're not used to magic loop, you need to make sure when you move your work on the cable you don't pop out that loop (the purple cable sticking up in the above picture). If you did 3b, skip to 5b and use your second ball of yarn.

Step 5a: Slip the other sleeves stitches onto the cable until you get to the underarm, use knit cast on for your underarm stitches with your second ball of yarn.

Step 5b - pick up the other (left) needle, make another loop in the cable, and pick up the stitches that you will need to knit. All of the stitches are now on the needle. There is a loop of cable on the left, the needles meet for the left sleeve, then there is the right sleeve and another loop of cable. Each sleeve is joined to a different ball of yarn

Step 6 - knit the stitches on the left hand needle until both needle tips are on that side and there is still a loop on the right side of the work

Step 7: Flip it over, carefully pull out a loop of cable like you did in step 2, and keep knitting. Don't forget to change yarn strands when you get to the other sleeve.

I will typically put a stitch marker on the sleeve that I cast on first, just so I remember and don't make one sleeve a row longer than the other.

From this point, you'll knit the top of sleeve 1, top of sleeve 2, bottom of sleeve 2, bottom of sleeve 1, then repeat until you're done.

The benefit of this method is that if I do any patterning or changes or follow any whims (cables! Lace! Decreases! Colour changes!) I can do it on one sleeve and then immediately do it on the other. You will also continually work both sleeves - in order to skip one sleeve you'd have to start purling.

When it's time to cast off, you can put a stitch holder in the stitch from one sleeve while you work on casting off the other.

You do have to do some yarn management, but you get used to it and it's not so bad.

[daiyanerd]

Knitting a pair of warm wool socks in advance of the winter storm coming this weekend. I usually do socks 2 at a time but i hadn’t done this pattern so did 1 to check the fit. “When you finish the first sock, immediately cast on for the second. This improves your odds of getting a pair” - the Yarn Harlot

[ce-archerhelke]

I think I finally figured out this magic loop business guys...

[kaiyonohime]

Started knitting the sleeves for my cardigan and decided fuck it, time to learn and use magic loop.

It's a thing. That's going. Probably need a longer cable next time though. But at least I just need to knit the sleeves once!

[crochetpedia]

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Check out my foolproof method for the magic ring!

It's so easy you'll remember it forever and won't have to check how-to videos ever again.

[gilly-laughs]

Who has owned these circular needles for a year? Who forgot how to cast on? Who is learning magic loop at 4 am?

(points thumb at self) This girl.

I really did have to refresh myself on how to cast on (I've been crocheting for the last year and half) but once I got the pattern it all came back to me. I'm not knitting to a pattern, just learning how to knit in the round and magic loop for now.

[duhdumb89]

I have made one (1) sock. This was not hard at all! Idk why I never tried to knit socks all these years.

[otaku553]

I am going to be So Insufferable about this man in 2 days.

[zillychu]

sometimes you black out and just an entire Persona 5 AU in one night

did I ever settle on a design for phantom thief! Siffrin? no. anyway,

NOT fully mirroring the P5 plot!! it's a bit different! a few were hit with the obligatory anime teenager beam

Siffrin gets arrested for allegedly attacking someone with a knife! this did not happen. while trying to help someone, he in fact got knifed in the face and lost an eye.

the adoption system is about to drop their ass since they're nearly an adult and no one's too happy about the aggravated assault. fate drops him at Nille's doorstep, who takes pity on him but insists she's only housing his ass for some extra cash. Bonnie acquires another felon a sibling!

showing up to school looking like shit (anxiety, no sleep), with an eyepatch and a natural silent intensity, no one really questions if he's stabbed someone. everyone's pretty sure he's killed someone actually.

Mira and Isa are charged with helping the new local mass murderer get settled, and they slowly start to uncover the real Siffrin hiding under all that apprehension. Odile, the school nurse, is all kinds of queer so she's got these kids' backs. as the story progresses, they each have their own character arc around biting back on authority (Isa gets the courage to transition, and Mira stops straightening her hair)

what about everyone else's outfits? that's the fun part! SIFFRIN IS DOING ALL THIS PHANTOM THIEF SHIT ALONE

well not totally alone. they've got a weird cat now. they can talk (Siffrin wishes they didn't) and has a concerning amount of knowledge about the metaverse for being an amnesiac! (this worries them too, they just try not to show it)

the OTHER fun part is that Siffrin is doing half this phantom thief stuff in the metaverse, half in the real world. good news is, he has the magic metaverse stuff irl! bad news is he has the magic metaverse stuff irl. yeah it helps keep him from getting caught, but law enforcement starts rising quickly to military arms when you start breaking physics while also being a theater kid about it.

the meat of the plot is surrounding Siffrin's struggle to fit two lives into one, and how his friends are WAY too perceptive to keep this up forever. but they have to, because they've only barely convinced their friends to accept them. if they knew he was some evil freaky magic terrorist (he's not, but like, who would believe him when he's doing seemingly evil freaky magic terrorist things!), they'd turn him in, they'd be scared, they'd HATE him!!

btw there is no rival for Siffrin. he's his own rival. lets give the "I'm terrified I'm manipulating my friends" twink actual mind alteration powers and see what happens :))

[ayilings]

do we fuck with black parade hatsune miku [wip] 💀🖤

[raemirs]

ISAT au where the only difference is that siffrin is a magical girl