I'm working my first sweater to be knit entirely in the round (I really hate sewing the seams!). Following Elizabeth Zimmerman's technique, my plan is to knit the sleeves from the wrists up, knit the body from the waist up, join the live armpit stitches with the body stitches and decrease for the shoulders. I'm planning a V-neck and not entirely sure yet how the V will come into play...I guess I'll have to knit back and forth when I get there but at least there won't be any seams to deal with.
So knitting two sleeves on two circulars is interesting...I know I won't have to make a second sleeve when I'm done, but the two seem to go so slowly together! With the two balls of yarn and trying not to get everything all tangled up it's definitely less portable than one sleeve would be, so it will probably end up taking me longer than doing each sleeve separately. I'm still keeping an open mind about this technique...
Here's the tutorial I followed for setting up the sleeves. I set it up with one long circular as suggested, but found it awkward to keep pulling the extra wire through so after a few rows switched to two circulars which I find easier.
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