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A 3 needle join and a 3 needle bindoff are handy tricks to have in your knitting bag.

First the join:

The two pieces that will be joined, the body and the ruffle of a child’s sweater:

Place the ruffle piece around the body piece so that the wrong side of the ruffle is facing the right side of the body:

Hold the two left hand needles — one part of each circular needle — in your left hand:

Insert the right needle of one of the circular needles — whichever one you’d like the knitting to end up on — into the first stitch of the ruffle as to knit:

Insert the same needle into the first stitch of the body as to knit:

Loop the yarn around the needle as to knit:

Pull the yarn through both loops:

Complete the knit stitch by taking both loops off their respective needles:

After completing about half a dozen stitches you can see where the two parts are joined:

This is the sweater after knitting all the stitches:

Here you can see underneath the ruffle: