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How You Learned Double Pointed Needles?

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How did you learn how to do double pointed needles and circular needles? Saw a bag using both techniques but I haven’t really used both techniques. I thought if I started with a few small projects I may be able to do a bag. Any type of projects that are small that use double pointed or circular needles? Thanks!
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My mother taught me - I'd seen her knitting with dpns once, and asked her how come they had points on both ends. She popped a small yarn ball on one end of one of the needles, to show me what happened when she knit around (I can't recall for sure, but likely was a sleeve). Then, I wanted to know how to do it. I don't recall the exact details, but I did make a small round "thing". Learned a few things - appears as stocking stitch when you knit all the stitches in the round, and that stocking stitch curls. So, I may not recall all the details, but I recall the main lessons!!
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