Magic Loop Knitting

Last week while looking around at my favorite fiber arts web site: http://www.ravelry.com/ for some info on double pointed needles I kept coming across a reference to magic loop knitting in lieu of using double pointed needles. I had no clue what this was and for the life of me couldn't understand from just the written description how it worked, then one poster referenced watching a particular video of the technique to figure it out. Following her link didn't get me to what I was looking for, then it occurred to me that just about anything is available at YouTube. So over I went and in my first search I came up with many options, yay! I chose this one for no particular reason: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-R51731ERA. I swear I heard a chorus of angels singing in the background as I watched this woman knit a tiny tube with 1 pair of circular needles! I ran to my stash to grab some yarn and a pair of needles that met the requirements. Let me interject here that I've always chosen circulars with the smallest length of cord so as to be able to knit smaller tubes without difficulty, (irony, you'll see if you watch the video, ha!). I sat down in front of my computer, played the video again and within minutes was working on a tube that consisted of 8 stitches on circular needles. "I love learning new things", I thought, and then a light bulb went off. It was just my beau turning the light on for me since it was a little dark in the room :), no not really, I had another great idea! If I found this wonderful bit of info on YouTube I bet I could find a plethora of information on sock knitting. You see this was my new years resolution for 2010, to learn how to knit socks, and I never did so I just re-purposed the resolution for 2011. And sure enough there are tons of generous knitters out there willing to share their expertise and talent with us in video form. I am going to knit one of everything over the next year! So, now I'm on to knit a sock, I'll let you know how it goes. Oh, and I'll be knitting it, (or hopefully them), with one pair of circular needles.