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It's a little bit of a faff, but it works perfectly for me: when you get to the end of a needle, drop that needle and carry on knitting the next two or three stitches from the next needle onto your live needle as well, then pick up your empty needle, slip those two/three stitches from the old live needle onto this needle, and carry on.

Basically, always knit two-three stitches from the next needle without changing your live needle, then change to the next live needle and slip those two/three stitches onto it, so you're never having to knit any stitches on joins.

Hello! I have a question about laddering with DPNs because no matter what I keep getting ladders on my socks. I usually knit with three in the stitches and the fourth one to knit and I've tried using all five and I've tried putting more tension on the parts where the needles meet but I can't seem to get it right :/ should I give up and just do magic loop?

Hi there,

Unfortunately, laddering can happen with the magic loop method as well.  

You said you’re using more tension at the joins.  Are you putting extra tension on the first few and last few stitches on each needle?  

Also, another trick I use is moving the stitches around periodically to change up where the first and last stitches on the needles are.  This can make laddering quite a bit less noticeable because it’s not happening with the same stitches every row.

Aside from doing what she’s already doing does anyone else have other ideas for a-piece-of-pjorn on how to avoid laddering?