I’ve worked my first sleeve, and started it on a 16 inch circ, and hated how it was stretching out my stitches – EZ recommends just putting the 42 stitches right on the circs off the bat, but I can’t adjust my gauge like she was able to, knitting master that she was. At any rate, I ripped it out after about two inches, and recast-on onto four dpns. But, the dpns were size sevens, and I was working in eights. So, I switched after about an inch to two size eight circs. I think the smaller start will hold in the sleeves better. Here’s a picture of the sleeve on the two circs.
You can see the fishtrap pattern continued up the sleeve. After the sleeve grew wide enough, (I increased two stitches every four rows) I transfered the sleeve to one circ:
So much easier on one circ, as there’s no shifting of needles. The sleeve worked up pretty quickly, and now I just have to find the motivation to start the next one. Then steeking…
That is cute looking. I have never been able to get the hang of working with multiple dpns or multiple circs. All of my hat patterns have to be sewn up the back.