This is the MOST PERFECT TUTORIAL about magic loop. Love this and now I know how to knit my sleeves without that awful and annoying gap.😅 10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for you Mr. Frank.
Thank you very much for explaining this improved knitting technique so meticulously for us! :) Your skillful teaching makes the problems we are facing easier to understand, which is a hallmark of a great teacher.
I hate using DPNs. The magic loop works better for me but still leaves unsightly “ladders”. This technique of making a second loop is absolutely fantastic! I thought it would be troublesome making the second loop but it’s not and any trouble would be well worth it to achieve the great results! Thank you, thank you thank you!
this is a fantastic video. So good that you're going through the different beginner's strategies, so people don't make the same mistakes as each other. You're literally saving the world thousands of hours of headaches. Well done!
OMG. Thank you! This is how I’ve been doing Magic Loop on my own. Then I watched probably 15 videos of “How to Do Magic Loop” all doing it the first way you showed. I wondered if I was doing something wrong or creating some problem even though my sleeves look great. Now I’ll continue to do it the second way you showed. It is the only way that make sense to me.
this video saved my knitting!! I was having SUCH a hard time with tension right at the gap and was considering just switching back to dpns (even though I wanted to learn magic loop). Your method completely fixed my problems and I find it so much easier to knit now. THANK YOU so much!!!
Total game changer. Thank you so much for sharing this as have struggled so much in the past with ladders or loose or tight stitches in my projects. Will be using this method all the time now 🙏😊
I could just hug you to pieces! I was struggling so much with the magic loop! I couldn't hold all the stuff I needed to at the start of each half and the ladders drove me insane! This way is PERFECT!!!! It's more natural to hold, work, and NO LADDERS WHATSOEVER!!!! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
Brilliant! i was just having that problem - with the 2 last stitches being too tight. I kept trying to redistribute the tension on every turn. Can't wait to try this. Thank you, Phrancko! And your instructions are so clear!
Came across this video accidentally. I hadn't tried the Magic Loop yet, but was about to, so I can finish the sleeves on my first sweater. Kept reading about "ladders" and was hesitant to try it. Not anymore, this shows the perfect way to avoid them! Thank you!
Just attempted the magic loop method and watched a couple of vids. I love your solution for the tension problem and I will be using the 4 stitch solution. So glad I found this from the start. Looking forward to watching more of your RUclips videos. Thank you so much 😊
These suggestions are brilliant. I've watched countless magic loop videos, but was never able to find a solution to the tight, sloppy or laddered columns. Thank you!!!
Oh this is a joy to watch. I've wanted to do magic loop for years. My efforts have been futile. I end up with the working yarn in the center, taking everything apart and been in near tears, swearing I'll never try again. I love the 4 stitch move over method. Thank you so very much.
Wow, I hit like on this video, then went ahead and tried it. Had to come back and comment.. I've tried magic loop before and always got ladders, this method is perfect. Thank you!!
i don't usually comment, but i gotta say this is the only video that provided a clear solution for fixing my tension issues. other videos were like "your tension is too loose or too tight". thank you for posting this and helping me improve my knitting!
Just adding to the chorus of thank yous. I have watched several Magic Loop videos where I could not figure out at all what they were doing. In the first few minutes of this you gave a far better demonstration of the basic technique than any others I have seen, even before considering your improvement on it. Now I can finish my hat, hopefully without frogging the whole crown for the third time.
I've been struggling with ladders using magic loop and cotton yarn. I have just used this method on a beanie in wool with a repeat lace pattern and it works brilliantly. It was a 8 stitch repeat so I left 8 stitches on the needle instead of 4. Thanks for sharing.
There is a kit made by ChiaoGoo in a blue pouch and these are interchangeable circulars which are shorter tips than their regular needles which these full kits are available as 5” and 4”. The Blue kit has needles which are 3” and 2”. The kit comes with cables of 5”, 6” and 8”. One can also get 2” additional cords so one can make the equivalent of FlexiFlips. The screw threads are the same as for the small cables of the full kit and there are double ended adapters which allow one to virtually then make whatever size cable would be necessary. If one gets into an in between spot, making up 3 needles with the 2” joins in between can make the awkward parts easier to do. So long as you have your leading needles you are knitting with at gauge, the trailing needles can be any size smaller. If doing 3 needles, there are then two which are 3” and one which is 2” but since they are the same diameter join as the full kit, I have 4” needles as my hands are smaller than a man’s hands and I can work with 4”, then down to 3” then down to 2” to be able to make the sleeve taper. ChiaoGoo’s kit isn’t cheap but if you are only knitting with a certain size needle, you can get that size in a kit with 2 tips at 3” length and 2 tips at the 2” length. These come with one 5” cable and one 6” cable. If you are working two circulars, it is all you need really. If you need the 8” cable, the one from the larger full kit works too. This allows ones total flexibility and good quality knitting. I have grand children and it works on their hats and sock and have the Red Lace kit in the red pouch for doing socks. I just love them. I like knitting in the small tube better when I can as there it makes an absolutely smooth knitted tube. If one is doing ribbing or cables, the two circular needle method or making up the equivalent of Flexi-Flips can be done if you gets the additional 2” adapters which come in a bad of 3 for both the Red lace mini join or the small in the blue cable. These days to knit, yes, takes some investment, but I’d rather buy the tools I need and buy on sale yarn than sit in a psychiatrists office. Knitting is splendid mental therapy for finding that place of peace in heart. Thank you for your splendid video.
Brilliant! That was the one thing that continued to bug me when using the magic loop technique. Like all ideas so simple you wonder why you hadn't thought of it before. Many thanks for sharing.
AWESOME! I have been using magic loop for years but always have been super careful when moving from one needle to the other. This is perfect! Thank you 😊
Pure genius! I'm learning your technique right while I'm in the middle of knitting a baby hat, in the round of course. Thank you so much for this, Frank!
Genius! After years of knitting I only learned magic loop today from RUclips. It seemed so time consuming and I was really struggling to push those stitches up the needle when switching sides. Your method is so easy and seemed to just fly in comparison to regular method. I even timed myself and on a 37 stitch row it was 30 seconds quicker. That really adds up. Thank you!!
Phrancko, all I can say is... mind blown and you made magic loop work for me. I was determined to try it again as my previous attempts were full of ladders and look crappy. So I had resigned myself to dp needles. I watched and rewatched RUclips videos, and the I found yours and ... Hooray! Love it and thanks so much! You've got a new subscriber!
Thank you for this! I gave up on magic loop because I could not find a video that addressed that issue at all and I was at my wit’s end with having those two tight stitches preventing me from being able to easily slide the stitches on to the new needle. You are a life saver and I can’t wait to give your method a try!
Am just learning magic loop. Lucky for me to have come across this video before I actually begin to knit with wonderful method for knitting in the round! ❤️🙏🏼❤️
This is so helpful! So often I needed to switch from a knit to a purl and struggled trying to make sure my yarn was correctly positioned. Now there’s no guessing. Thank you!!
This is so simple, how could no one have come up with it before??? This is ingenious, and I think would make my stranded socks come out soooo much better! Thank you for sharing your technique ☺
I've been knitting for years but tried magic loop for the first time today.I didn't like the laddering but I must admit yours is the best I've seen so I'll give it another try.Thank you
I knit done with my mother as a child, but had forgotten everything but the basics. I figured cuff down magic loop socks would be a great place to start. Ughh! I’ve started, torn out and started a dozen times. Your tutorial for the four stitch loop clicked with me and I’m almost done with the cuff now. Thank you 🙏🏻 so much, Frank !! I’m now subscribed to your channel.
Thank you, thank you....Now that I am using this technique, I find myself humming that line from "My House"..."everything is easy now 'cause of you." Good-by ladders!
I love this method. I started using it for learning my sock knitting. I started of with such terrible ladders! The only odd thing I find with this method is sticking to 4 stitches when your work is so based on 8 ! I've found that to keep my markers in place where I don't have to go searching all over for them when they "jump off" the needle is to vary the pick up. 5 stitches help because it breaks the monotony of 4 which ultimately ends up always on a marker. So that's my suggestion for those sock knitters that would like to use this method but find it confusing while knitting socks. It is essential that you use markers of you do and to track your decreases somehow. Thanks again Phrancko!
I'm so glad you found it helpful. And you're right, there is nothing that says you must use four stitches. I often use more if I am working cables or colorwork and come to a place where four stitches would break the pattern at an inappropriate place, like in the middle of a cable or a partial block of color that is being stranded across. And I describe using markers to keep track of the beginning of round in my addendum to this video, which you might want to watch if you haven't already found it: ruclips.net/video/_J874R6HcIE/видео.html
So so brilliant! Thank you so much for this! I am a beginner but been playing with magic loop and it seemed "ok" managing the tension issues you mention until recently I tried to knit herringbone stitch with magic loop and it was sooo difficult getting the tension right as I had to slip only one stitch and move the remaining at each turn to the other needle, so got stuck in a project. This fixes the issue completely!!!! I will try tomorrow...hopefully it will be my last swatch and practice round so I can do it properly! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I had learned from someone else recently to switch the position of the turn moving the loops around, but not the way you show to solve the tension issues! I am beyond thrilled to have found your video!
This is brilliant! Thanks. I am new to magic loop, so took quite a bit of practice to get to grips with that, and this at the same time. But now I have, it's awesome. A knitting superpower 😃
THANK YOU! This tip made me fall in love with knitting all over again. I am a perfectionist and this was so simple yet makes my socks look even more amazing.
Thank you. I have seen this done the first way and without fully understanding the precise glitch I somehow realized that there would be problems. I did buy exact size needles for a pumpkin project for my charity work but do have many needles with large loops so I will try this. Sometimes the simple things are the hardest to fix. Years ago after setting up our first tower desktop computer myself and getting all the hardware and cables connected I could not figure out how to turn it on and those very early directions did not show the power button! Eventually I called the company tech line, feeling like a total idjiot. Those were the days the companies still had help desks. Now You Tube is my help desk! Happy to find you. Will try on my next pumpkin.
I'm glad it was helpful. I had a similar experience recently. I ordered a product and the box was covered with instructions but none of them told how to OPEN the box. It was ridiculously difficult to get the product out of the box! LOL
There's so many thanks here already but I just have to add my own because this video solves the problem I've been facing for quite a while. This method allows me to knit fair isle patterns in my socks without the annoying result of a gap between the change of the double pointed needles and especially when you start a new row. As has been told here in the comments too I just mark the start of new row and follow the pattern from my chart. It's so nice that I only have to twist the yarns when knitting extra long set of stitches with the same color and not at the end of every row. I am so happy about this. Thank you!
I’m telling you this is brilliant! It solves so many issues! Increases, decreases, color work! I’ve researched so many places and have never seen this solution. I can’t thank you enough!
I'm making infant tube socks, and just learned magic loop, was very frustrated with uneven tension with joining stitch. Thank you so very much ❤ for removing the frustratiin. Your a great teacher.
I like your methode very much, a great solution. I always knit socks for my grandchildren and I had always ladders. Thank you Francko. Eleonore The Netherlands
This is brilliant. I use Chiagoo Shorites with a 30" cable for hat crowns and am always pulling out loops as needed. This puts a method to it. Thank you
Jane, when using a marker to mark the beginning of each row, would you move it four stitches each time, or would you slip marker and then do your four stitches? Thanks.
@@shelleyn.8503 I attach a removable marker to the right leg of the first stitch so it’s never actually slid across needles. After 5 or 6 rows I move it up closer to the needle so I can see it better. You can then manipulate the stitches on your needle and never lose your marker.
I am brand new to the magic loop. I tried several attempts watching other videos. I gave up and ordered dpn's. They arrived yesterday. Now seeing your tutorial l think l can "get" it. Watching other people try to teach this is such a mess, the way you hold the needles and taped this is done very well. I'm so glad I saw your video. Thank you!
This has changed my life!! Thank you so much Frank, I no longer dread knitting sleeves!! By any chance do you have a special technique you use when alternating skeins with hand dyed yarn? Would love to hear which method you use!
Yes, I do use a special technique for that. It's called Helix or Helical knitting. Here's an excellent video on the technique by Suzanne Bryan: ruclips.net/video/RIi2WVprRXE/видео.html
Thank you thank you thank you. I've spent the past 2 days learning the magic loop technique, and none of my compensation attempts worked to keep even tension, so it was awful trying to slide the stitches up the needle with my arthritic thumbs. I can see where this will also help with reorienting the working yarn for purling. I haven't always been able to visualize where that tail should be when I start a new row. I'm still practicing now, but hope to start that sweater sleeve soon. I believe there are other videos for this "traveling loop" method, but yours makes the most sense. Well done.
I'm so glad to hear that this is helping you. Thanks for your response. I should mention that this is not the "traveling loop method" though as another technique seems to have claimed that name. If you're interested, see my lengthy reply to another comment that suggested that name.
In one year......! I have learned and knit with RoundNeedles and I thought that I could handle the Roundneedle, though I had some problems..... why couldn't I found this video with you when I was started..... thank you thank you thank you for showing this so easily❣
OH! I see! It took me a few goes but this is great. I was thinking of doing Arne and Carlos’s Christmas stocking KAL this year and had forgotten all the techniques… and I hate dpns too. Thank you
The volume on my tablet sucks so sometimes videos w low volume are really hard to watch. This is one of those times. There is a way you can adjust it. Thanks for the tutorial. Brilliant. I'm using it.
I see what you mean. The volume on this is much too low. Sorry about that. I struggle with getting the cameras, lighting, and volume all tuned correctly. Hopefully I will improve in time.
This has bugged me for years and no matter what I did, nothing worked. So I searched again as I'm doing sleeves again and SO happy I found this. It's working so well!
Your comment has sent me on a very interesting RUclips journey. I think "Traveling Loop" would be an excellent name for this technique and I had not heard that name before. So I did a search for "traveling loop knitting" on RUclips and found a bunch of videos that say they are describing "travelling loop." The first five of the videos are not describing this technique at all. Here they are: ruclips.net/video/SHHSZQYuy9Q/видео.html ruclips.net/video/EpRzblhz_68/видео.html ruclips.net/video/0Ec0B7iu_RU/видео.html ruclips.net/video/7uwq7a7RgO8/видео.html ruclips.net/video/kAHRglyXhpQ/видео.html All of those videos are describing a version of magic loop that uses only a single loop, rather than the usual two loops for magic loop. The single loop "travels" all around the cable needles from the left needle around to the right needle, hence the name. They then start the round again by knitting across the divide where the back stitch is resting on the cable. That's the problem my technique is solving. With this technique you never have to guess the tension of the loop left on the cable. There was only one video that I found that describes a similar technique to the technique I describe here and called it "traveling loop". It is this one: ruclips.net/video/-SFy_OJT-pc/видео.html And such is the problem with naming. As much as I would love to call this technique "traveling loop," it appears another technique has essentially claimed that name. In the technique I describe in this video, whether you are doing magic loop with one loop or two, it is the gap between rounds (or half rounds) that travels around the stitches. The focus is not on the loop traveling at all. Maybe we should call this technique "the traveling gap magic loop"? Or just call it magic loop know that there is a better way of starting each round.
I was doing something like this and feeling bad, but now I have ‘permission’, yay. In my head 'good knitters have perfect tension always' but I'm a bad knitter so I have to cheat. Another way: slip the last 2/3/4 stitches of the right needle onto the left needle. That way you knit straight across the gap with the same finger placement & tension before letting go of the work to wrangle with the cable loop. On a straight cylinder maybe pick a number that is not a neat division of the number of stitches…the gap would fall entirely differently each round and not 'jog' left-right-left-right.
Just learned the magic loop method and tried it today. No kidding about the tight sts. Killer! As a beginner, this will help me tremendously. Thank you!
Thank you. Finally something that really works for me. My only regret is that I didn't discover your video until I was more than half way down the sleeve. Oh well, better late than never.
Thank you SO much for this! I was dreading tackling the sleeves on my first top-down sweater as my practice Magic Loop was hideous but this has really worked for me.
THANK you for this video. I watched MANY videos and read many blog posts trying to figure out magic loop. Your simple technique and your clear instructions made all the difference. I now can confidently use magic loop with ease and no jog mess. Now if you can teach me how to knit continental style, I would be forever grateful. I'm SICK of throwing yarn, but continental confuses me!
ruclips.net/video/CgIp0K4DRm8/видео.html This is a link to show you how to do continental...works amazingly for me!
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I had this issue when I first learned magic loop, my LYS told me to pull tighter, then I got that big line you talked about, after a few months of not being happy with that line not blocking out, I did exactly what you showed us, I have been doing it now for years and I am happy with my knitted items, so glad you made this video to show others. I had ladders when I was using DPNs and learned to move the stitches around there too. I move my stitches around periodically too as I have dexterity issues, which affects my tension sometimes. Love that you shared this as so many ppl get stuck in "the way it should be", relax and happy knitting I say. Great video!
I was wondering, as I am knew to the magic loop, when using this how do you start your first connecting row? In his demonstration he shows you after he has started.
Great technique. I do something similar. I make a new magic loop about every 3 or 4 rows if I'm having tension problems. sometimes I do if I'm uptight while I'm knitting.
Thank you so much! I’ve been struggling with the magic loop and was even about to give up on circular needles and just go back to my DPNs. This was REALLY helpful and clear!
This is the MOST PERFECT TUTORIAL about magic loop.
Love this and now I know how to knit my sleeves without that awful and annoying gap.😅
10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for you Mr. Frank.
You are so welcome! I'm glad it was helpful.
Thank you very much for explaining this improved knitting technique so meticulously for us! :) Your skillful teaching makes the problems we are facing easier to understand, which is a hallmark of a great teacher.
You are so welcome! You are so kind to say that.
WOW!! I'll be saving this video. Brilliant.
Thanks!
Brilliant! As a beginner to the magic loop you will never know how much I appreciate this technique, thank you!
I hate using DPNs. The magic loop works better for me but still leaves unsightly “ladders”. This technique of making a second loop is absolutely fantastic! I thought it would be troublesome making the second loop but it’s not and any trouble would be well worth it to achieve the great results! Thank you, thank you thank you!
this is a fantastic video. So good that you're going through the different beginner's strategies, so people don't make the same mistakes as each other. You're literally saving the world thousands of hours of headaches. Well done!
OMG. Thank you! This is how I’ve been doing Magic Loop on my own. Then I watched probably 15 videos of “How to Do Magic Loop” all doing it the first way you showed. I wondered if I was doing something wrong or creating some problem even though my sleeves look great. Now I’ll continue to do it the second way you showed. It is the only way that make sense to me.
this video saved my knitting!! I was having SUCH a hard time with tension right at the gap and was considering just switching back to dpns (even though I wanted to learn magic loop). Your method completely fixed my problems and I find it so much easier to knit now. THANK YOU so much!!!
You are so welcome!
Total game changer. Thank you so much for sharing this as have struggled so much in the past with ladders or loose or tight stitches in my projects. Will be using this method all the time now 🙏😊
I could just hug you to pieces! I was struggling so much with the magic loop! I couldn't hold all the stuff I needed to at the start of each half and the ladders drove me insane!
This way is PERFECT!!!! It's more natural to hold, work, and NO LADDERS WHATSOEVER!!!! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
My first time to use magic loop! You’ve made it so easy for me. Thank you!
So simple and completely obvious after the fact. Thank you! 😊 Just start the turn with 4 stitches on the needle rather than empty.
Yep, it's as simple as that! I'm glad you found this helpful.
That’s brilliant too!
Brilliant! i was just having that problem - with the 2 last stitches being too tight. I kept trying to redistribute the tension on every turn. Can't wait to try this. Thank you, Phrancko! And your instructions are so clear!
Came across this video accidentally. I hadn't tried the Magic Loop yet, but was about to, so I can finish the sleeves on my first sweater. Kept reading about "ladders" and was hesitant to try it. Not anymore, this shows the perfect way to avoid them! Thank you!
Glad I could help!
😊 A wonderful solution, and a presentation leading the viewer to be free of fear at learning a new technique. Thank you. 🎉
You are so welcome!
Extremely helpful. A true "aha" moment for me, and what a difference it has made in my knitting! Thank you.
You are so welcome!
Just attempted the magic loop method and watched a couple of vids. I love your solution for the tension problem and I will be using the 4 stitch solution. So glad I found this from the start. Looking forward to watching more of your RUclips videos. Thank you so much 😊
Thank you for this. You perfected what the magic loop was "meant" to be- seamless.
First time I’ve used magic loop - so easy to follow. Thank you!
These suggestions are brilliant. I've watched countless magic loop videos, but was never able to find a solution to the tight, sloppy or laddered columns. Thank you!!!
Great to hear!
Oh this is a joy to watch. I've wanted to do magic loop for years. My efforts have been futile. I end up with the working yarn in the center, taking everything apart and been in near tears, swearing I'll never try again. I love the 4 stitch move over method. Thank you so very much.
Wow, I hit like on this video, then went ahead and tried it. Had to come back and comment.. I've tried magic loop before and always got ladders, this method is perfect. Thank you!!
i don't usually comment, but i gotta say this is the only video that provided a clear solution for fixing my tension issues. other videos were like "your tension is too loose or too tight". thank you for posting this and helping me improve my knitting!
Just adding to the chorus of thank yous. I have watched several Magic Loop videos where I could not figure out at all what they were doing. In the first few minutes of this you gave a far better demonstration of the basic technique than any others I have seen, even before considering your improvement on it. Now I can finish my hat, hopefully without frogging the whole crown for the third time.
I'm so glad it helped you.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You have made magic loop so much better and easier to work with.
You are so welcome!
Thank you. I just knitted a sleeve on a sweater and it has that crease I think I'm going to frog it and do it your way. THANKS AGAIN.
I've been struggling with ladders using magic loop and cotton yarn. I have just used this method on a beanie in wool with a repeat lace pattern and it works brilliantly. It was a 8 stitch repeat so I left 8 stitches on the needle instead of 4. Thanks for sharing.
There is a kit made by ChiaoGoo in a blue pouch and these are interchangeable circulars which are shorter tips than their regular needles which these full kits are available as 5” and 4”. The Blue kit has needles which are 3” and 2”. The kit comes with cables of 5”, 6” and 8”. One can also get 2” additional cords so one can make the equivalent of FlexiFlips. The screw threads are the same as for the small cables of the full kit and there are double ended adapters which allow one to virtually then make whatever size cable would be necessary. If one gets into an in between spot, making up 3 needles with the 2” joins in between can make the awkward parts easier to do. So long as you have your leading needles you are knitting with at gauge, the trailing needles can be any size smaller. If doing 3 needles, there are then two which are 3” and one which is 2” but since they are the same diameter join as the full kit, I have 4” needles as my hands are smaller than a man’s hands and I can work with 4”, then down to 3” then down to 2” to be able to make the sleeve taper.
ChiaoGoo’s kit isn’t cheap but if you are only knitting with a certain size needle, you can get that size in a kit with 2 tips at 3” length and 2 tips at the 2” length. These come with one 5” cable and one 6” cable. If you are working two circulars, it is all you need really. If you need the 8” cable, the one from the larger full kit works too.
This allows ones total flexibility and good quality knitting. I have grand children and it works on their hats and sock and have the Red Lace kit in the red pouch for doing socks. I just love them.
I like knitting in the small tube better when I can as there it makes an absolutely smooth knitted tube. If one is doing ribbing or cables, the two circular needle method or making up the equivalent of Flexi-Flips can be done if you gets the additional 2” adapters which come in a bad of 3 for both the Red lace mini join or the small in the blue cable.
These days to knit, yes, takes some investment, but I’d rather buy the tools I need and buy on sale yarn than sit in a psychiatrists office. Knitting is splendid mental therapy for finding that place of peace in heart.
Thank you for your splendid video.
Brilliant! That was the one thing that continued to bug me when using the magic loop technique. Like all ideas so simple you wonder why you hadn't thought of it before. Many thanks for sharing.
AWESOME! I have been using magic loop for years but always have been super careful when moving from one needle to the other. This is perfect! Thank you 😊
Thank you, thank you, thank you! New subscriber here and i wish you all the best for 2023! Greetings from the Netherlands.
Same to you!
Brilliant solution! I've done this with DPNs and two circulars, but hadn't thought to do it in magic loop! Thank you for this!
Pure genius! I'm learning your technique right while I'm in the middle of knitting a baby hat, in the round of course. Thank you so much for this, Frank!
Best advice ever!! This technique rapidly improved my knitting results. Many many thanks!
Genius! After years of knitting I only learned magic loop today from RUclips. It seemed so time consuming and I was really struggling to push those stitches up the needle when switching sides. Your method is so easy and seemed to just fly in comparison to regular method. I even timed myself and on a 37 stitch row it was 30 seconds quicker. That really adds up. Thank you!!
Phrancko, all I can say is... mind blown and you made magic loop work for me. I was determined to try it again as my previous attempts were full of ladders and look crappy. So I had resigned myself to dp needles. I watched and rewatched RUclips videos, and the I found yours and ... Hooray! Love it and thanks so much! You've got a new subscriber!
Ha… somebody else already called you brilliant. Do my description is redundant now. This is a really nice description! You’re a great communicator!
Wow, thank you!
Thank so much fof using bigger yarn so these old eyes could see you were doing. Especially all the mistakes we can make and correction.
I don't usually leave comments but was so pleased to have come across this video. The method is so easy but so effective. Thank you.
You're very welcome!
Thank you for this! I gave up on magic loop because I could not find a video that addressed that issue at all and I was at my wit’s end with having those two tight stitches preventing me from being able to easily slide the stitches on to the new needle. You are a life saver and I can’t wait to give your method a try!
I literally can not knit regular magic loop, but couldn't find shorter needles or dpns of the right size. It's such a simple fix thank you!
You are so welcome!
Am just learning magic loop. Lucky for me to have come across this video before I actually begin to knit with wonderful method for knitting in the round! ❤️🙏🏼❤️
Glad it was helpful!
This is so helpful! So often I needed to switch from a knit to a purl and struggled trying to make sure my yarn was correctly positioned. Now there’s no guessing. Thank you!!
Now I know it's called "Travelling Magic Loop".A great technique taught, very clearly.
This is so simple, how could no one have come up with it before??? This is ingenious, and I think would make my stranded socks come out soooo much better! Thank you for sharing your technique ☺
I've been knitting for years but tried magic loop for the first time today.I didn't like the laddering but I must admit yours is the best I've seen so I'll give it another try.Thank you
I am so excited to see your technique! I've been struggling learning, so will try this tonight. Thank you!
This is a great idea. I've tried it with two, but agree 4 would be best.
Thank you for this video. Very informative!
You are so welcome!
I knit done with my mother as a child, but had forgotten everything but the basics.
I figured cuff down magic loop socks would be a great place to start. Ughh!
I’ve started, torn out and started a dozen times. Your tutorial for the four stitch loop clicked with me and I’m almost done with the cuff now. Thank you 🙏🏻 so much, Frank !! I’m now subscribed to your channel.
Thank you, thank you....Now that I am using this technique, I find myself humming that line from "My House"..."everything is easy now 'cause of you." Good-by ladders!
This made me chuckle.
I love this method. I started using it for learning my sock knitting. I started of with such terrible ladders! The only odd thing I find with this method is sticking to 4 stitches when your work is so based on 8 ! I've found that to keep my markers in place where I don't have to go searching all over for them when they "jump off" the needle is to vary the pick up. 5 stitches help because it breaks the monotony of 4 which ultimately ends up always on a marker. So that's my suggestion for those sock knitters that would like to use this method but find it confusing while knitting socks. It is essential that you use markers of you do and to track your decreases somehow. Thanks again Phrancko!
I'm so glad you found it helpful. And you're right, there is nothing that says you must use four stitches. I often use more if I am working cables or colorwork and come to a place where four stitches would break the pattern at an inappropriate place, like in the middle of a cable or a partial block of color that is being stranded across. And I describe using markers to keep track of the beginning of round in my addendum to this video, which you might want to watch if you haven't already found it: ruclips.net/video/_J874R6HcIE/видео.html
At last I know how to solve the problems I have found using Magic Loop. Thank you so much.
You are most welcome
Fantastic! I’ll be using this. Thank you so much for teaching us to level up our knitting
So so brilliant! Thank you so much for this! I am a beginner but been playing with magic loop and it seemed "ok" managing the tension issues you mention until recently I tried to knit herringbone stitch with magic loop and it was sooo difficult getting the tension right as I had to slip only one stitch and move the remaining at each turn to the other needle, so got stuck in a project. This fixes the issue completely!!!! I will try tomorrow...hopefully it will be my last swatch and practice round so I can do it properly! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I had learned from someone else recently to switch the position of the turn moving the loops around, but not the way you show to solve the tension issues! I am beyond thrilled to have found your video!
That makes me so happy!
This is brilliant! Thanks. I am new to magic loop, so took quite a bit of practice to get to grips with that, and this at the same time. But now I have, it's awesome. A knitting superpower 😃
THANK YOU! This tip made me fall in love with knitting all over again. I am a perfectionist and this was so simple yet makes my socks look even more amazing.
Glad it was helpful!
This is genius. I’ve just started knitting in the round and it’s perfect across the gap. Thank you so much.
I'm so glad it helps you.
This is a Christmas miracle! So simple. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you!!!!! I have only learned Magic Loop 1 week ago and I can already see this is the only way to do it!
Thank you. I have seen this done the first way and without fully understanding the precise glitch I somehow realized that there would be problems. I did buy exact size needles for a pumpkin project for my charity work but do have many needles with large loops so I will try this. Sometimes the simple things are the hardest to fix. Years ago after setting up our first tower desktop computer myself and getting all the hardware and cables connected I could not figure out how to turn it on and those very early directions did not show the power button! Eventually I called the company tech line, feeling like a total idjiot. Those were the days the companies still had help desks. Now You Tube is my help desk! Happy to find you. Will try on my next pumpkin.
I'm glad it was helpful. I had a similar experience recently. I ordered a product and the box was covered with instructions but none of them told how to OPEN the box. It was ridiculously difficult to get the product out of the box! LOL
There's so many thanks here already but I just have to add my own because this video solves the problem I've been facing for quite a while. This method allows me to knit fair isle patterns in my socks without the annoying result of a gap between the change of the double pointed needles and especially when you start a new row. As has been told here in the comments too I just mark the start of new row and follow the pattern from my chart. It's so nice that I only have to twist the yarns when knitting extra long set of stitches with the same color and not at the end of every row. I am so happy about this. Thank you!
I'm so glad it helped!
I’m telling you this is brilliant! It solves so many issues! Increases, decreases, color work! I’ve researched so many places and have never seen this solution. I can’t thank you enough!
You are so welcome!
I'm making infant tube socks, and just learned magic loop, was very frustrated with uneven tension with joining stitch.
Thank you so very much ❤ for removing the frustratiin.
Your a great teacher.
Glad it was helpful!
I like your methode very much, a great solution. I always knit socks for my grandchildren and I had always ladders. Thank you Francko. Eleonore The Netherlands
Wow so glad I came across your video! I have been having a nightmare with ladders - will do it this way from now on. Thank you Frank!
This is brilliant. I use Chiagoo Shorites with a 30" cable for hat crowns and am always pulling out loops as needed. This puts a method to it. Thank you
I do it this way all the time. It never made sense to me the “traditional” way. Good for you to show others!
Jane, when using a marker to mark the beginning of each row, would you move it four stitches each time, or would you slip marker and then do your four stitches? Thanks.
@@shelleyn.8503 I attach a removable marker to the right leg of the first stitch so it’s never actually slid across needles. After 5 or 6 rows I move it up closer to the needle so I can see it better. You can then manipulate the stitches on your needle and never lose your marker.
@@jsorensens2 thank you. I have a tendency to pull my stitches too tight and then have trouble sliding them onto my needle. I will try your tip.
Have used this method on 3 sets of sleeves, never doing it any other way 💜 thank you!
TY. I as having problems with stitches being too tight while doing magic loop. Now I know why.
This is brilliant, I'm knitting a hat for the first time and im getting some SERIOUS laddering. Can't wait to try this! Thank you!
I am brand new to the magic loop. I tried several attempts watching other videos. I gave up and ordered dpn's. They arrived yesterday. Now seeing your tutorial l think l can "get" it. Watching other people try to teach this is such a mess, the way you hold the needles and taped this is done very well. I'm so glad I saw your video. Thank you!
That is so nice to hear. Thank you!
This has changed my life!! Thank you so much Frank, I no longer dread knitting sleeves!! By any chance do you have a special technique you use when alternating skeins with hand dyed yarn? Would love to hear which method you use!
Yes, I do use a special technique for that. It's called Helix or Helical knitting. Here's an excellent video on the technique by Suzanne Bryan: ruclips.net/video/RIi2WVprRXE/видео.html
Genius. Sorry but I knew there was some 'magic' solution to this such as slipping stitches and here it is!
Thank you.
Thank you thank you thank you. I've spent the past 2 days learning the magic loop technique, and none of my compensation attempts worked to keep even tension, so it was awful trying to slide the stitches up the needle with my arthritic thumbs. I can see where this will also help with reorienting the working yarn for purling. I haven't always been able to visualize where that tail should be when I start a new row. I'm still practicing now, but hope to start that sweater sleeve soon. I believe there are other videos for this "traveling loop" method, but yours makes the most sense. Well done.
I'm so glad to hear that this is helping you. Thanks for your response.
I should mention that this is not the "traveling loop method" though as another technique seems to have claimed that name. If you're interested, see my lengthy reply to another comment that suggested that name.
Thank you! I’m a new knitter just starting to use circulars. Am looking forward to practicing and using this technique!
Wonderful! I'm glad you found it helpful.
Wow! Can't tell l you how much this has improved my magic loop. Thank you for your kindness.
In one year......! I have learned and knit with RoundNeedles and I thought that I could handle the Roundneedle, though I had some problems..... why couldn't I found this video with you when I was started..... thank you thank you thank you for showing this so easily❣
This is something I want to do. I’ll try magic loop. It’s always been a nemesis to me. Now I think I can.
So simple and SO effective. Thank you!!
OH! I see! It took me a few goes but this is great. I was thinking of doing Arne and Carlos’s Christmas stocking KAL this year and had forgotten all the techniques… and I hate dpns too. Thank you
This is how I figured out how to do it too!! Thanks for the great tutorial, I'm going to show this to all my knitting friends. Yay!
Glad it was helpful!
The volume on my tablet sucks so sometimes videos w low volume are really hard to watch. This is one of those times. There is a way you can adjust it.
Thanks for the tutorial. Brilliant. I'm using it.
I see what you mean. The volume on this is much too low. Sorry about that. I struggle with getting the cameras, lighting, and volume all tuned correctly. Hopefully I will improve in time.
This has bugged me for years and no matter what I did, nothing worked. So I searched again as I'm doing sleeves again and SO happy I found this. It's working so well!
I'll need to try this, but can imagine it adds quite a bit of time to the project.
Thank you!
Once you get used to it, it can be done fairly quickly. Let me know if you find that's true.
Just the tutorial I needed and explained perfectly. Magic magic knitting. Brilliant, thank you
You are so welcome!
Thank you. I've seen this method called Traveling Magic Loop in other videos.
Your comment has sent me on a very interesting RUclips journey. I think "Traveling Loop" would be an excellent name for this technique and I had not heard that name before. So I did a search for "traveling loop knitting" on RUclips and found a bunch of videos that say they are describing "travelling loop." The first five of the videos are not describing this technique at all. Here they are:
ruclips.net/video/SHHSZQYuy9Q/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/EpRzblhz_68/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/0Ec0B7iu_RU/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/7uwq7a7RgO8/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/kAHRglyXhpQ/видео.html
All of those videos are describing a version of magic loop that uses only a single loop, rather than the usual two loops for magic loop. The single loop "travels" all around the cable needles from the left needle around to the right needle, hence the name. They then start the round again by knitting across the divide where the back stitch is resting on the cable. That's the problem my technique is solving. With this technique you never have to guess the tension of the loop left on the cable.
There was only one video that I found that describes a similar technique to the technique I describe here and called it "traveling loop". It is this one:
ruclips.net/video/-SFy_OJT-pc/видео.html
And such is the problem with naming. As much as I would love to call this technique "traveling loop," it appears another technique has essentially claimed that name. In the technique I describe in this video, whether you are doing magic loop with one loop or two, it is the gap between rounds (or half rounds) that travels around the stitches. The focus is not on the loop traveling at all.
Maybe we should call this technique "the traveling gap magic loop"? Or just call it magic loop know that there is a better way of starting each round.
Thank you for sharing this video! I saw two video's in the dutch language on You Tube and then your video. So very comprehensible.👍🙏
Just started to learn magic loop. Glad I found this before I began
I was doing something like this and feeling bad, but now I have ‘permission’, yay. In my head 'good knitters have perfect tension always' but I'm a bad knitter so I have to cheat. Another way: slip the last 2/3/4 stitches of the right needle onto the left needle. That way you knit straight across the gap with the same finger placement & tension before letting go of the work to wrangle with the cable loop. On a straight cylinder maybe pick a number that is not a neat division of the number of stitches…the gap would fall entirely differently each round and not 'jog' left-right-left-right.
Just learned the magic loop method and tried it today. No kidding about the tight sts. Killer! As a beginner, this will help me tremendously. Thank you!
You are very welcome. Thanks for watching.
This is genius! It’s just what I needed because my gaps always became sinkholes!!!!!!
Thank you. Finally something that really works for me. My only regret is that I didn't discover your video until I was more than half way down the sleeve. Oh well, better late than never.
Thank you SO much for this! I was dreading tackling the sleeves on my first top-down sweater as my practice Magic Loop was hideous but this has really worked for me.
THANK you for this video. I watched MANY videos and read many blog posts trying to figure out magic loop. Your simple technique and your clear instructions made all the difference. I now can confidently use magic loop with ease and no jog mess. Now if you can teach me how to knit continental style, I would be forever grateful. I'm SICK of throwing yarn, but continental confuses me!
I'm afraid I can't help you there. I'm a thrower myself.
ruclips.net/video/CgIp0K4DRm8/видео.html This is a link to show you how to do continental...works amazingly for me!
I had this issue when I first learned magic loop, my LYS told me to pull tighter, then I got that big line you talked about, after a few months of not being happy with that line not blocking out, I did exactly what you showed us, I have been doing it now for years and I am happy with my knitted items, so glad you made this video to show others. I had ladders when I was using DPNs and learned to move the stitches around there too. I move my stitches around periodically too as I have dexterity issues, which affects my tension sometimes. Love that you shared this as so many ppl get stuck in "the way it should be", relax and happy knitting I say. Great video!
I was wondering, as I am knew to the magic loop, when using this how do you start your first connecting row? In his demonstration he shows you after he has started.
merci just what i wanted to know, i had to push so hard to get the last stitch on the needle. merci infiniment
Brilliant. Thank you!
Great technique. I do something similar. I make a new magic loop about every 3 or 4 rows if I'm having tension problems. sometimes I do if I'm uptight while I'm knitting.
Thank you so much! I’ve been struggling with the magic loop and was even about to give up on circular needles and just go back to my DPNs. This was REALLY helpful and clear!
Increíble!!!! Gracias por el video, soy principiante y ahora me animo a tejer en circular❤❤❤❤ saludos desde Argentina
Estoy muy feliz de que puedas acompañarnos desde Argentina. ¡Bienvenido!