Jaywalkers on Two Circulars-disaster.

I started the second Jaywalker using the two circular needles described in Cat Bordhi's book, Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles. I'm not sure if doing one sock with dpns and one with circulars is a good idea, but we'll see. She recommends the Addi Turbo needles, at around $12-$13 each, however, after doing a bit of research and reading about peoples' experiences with socks on two circulars (such as this review at She Knits Shizknits), I decided to try the Knitpicks Options Harmony needles- much less expensive at only around $4 per needle!

After a couple of mis-starts, so far I really like them, and this technique. The joins aren't as quite as smooth as I'd like, but the cables are nice and flexible. After a few times casting on and having some trouble remembering where the starting point was, I added a stitch marker to mark the start of the round. Now the sock does seem to be going quite quickly with this method. I'm a bit nervous about what will happen when I get to the heel, but hopefully things will just make sense as I go along.

I will admit, I tried out the magic loop technique before the two circulars. Argh! It truly was like wrangling an octopus!

Update: I started this post and then thought, hey, maybe I should check to make sure these socks are the same size/gauge. Um, they're not, which you can clearly see in the above photo. Ugh.

Update number two: Ok, I thought maybe I should check needle size. Let's see, sock number one is knit on size 1s, sock number two on size 2s. Geez, what a surprise that the gauge is off. At least I can most likely switch to the two circular methods for the second sock. I just need to make sure they're the right size. Duh.