Magic Loop for Pin Mamas

If you're family, this probably won't interest you very much. I'm about to go on a knitting talking fit, so pardon the email you just got notifying you I had an update featuring my beautiful children. LOL!

Right now I'm at the Wonderpants Pattern on page 8 where the crotch shaping decreases (CSDs) start. At this point your work is all on your 16" circular but we need to transfer everything to the 40" circular to use the magic loop technique. Using the 16" needle in your left hand and your 40" circular in your right, knit to as instructed to the completion of the back leg. This is where you add your yarn. Some prefer to tie a new yarn on, but I just like to start knitting with it and leave about a 6" tail. If I know I can complete the project out of one skein, I just knit with the outer end of yarn wound into a center pull ball. The first leg is knit with the center-pull end and the second leg is knit with the outer end. Here's a photo of how it's all connected once you start knitting the second leg after marker B with the second skein/other end. You start with an SSK, remember. The marker in the photo is marker B:

Let your original working yarn just hang loose while you knit the second leg per the instructions (through marker C) but don't get all tangled.

So here we are at marker C and this is where the magic loop begins in earnest. The white marker is marker C. In this picture, the needles are parallel. The back needle with marker C on it is the 40" circular and the front is the 16" circular you are working on getting the work off of. Two needles parallel like this is basically the neutral position of magic loop. (Usually this will be each end of your 40" circular, BTW.)
Now pull out the back needle (the 40" with the C marker) until all stitches are on the cable and you have enough slack to work the stitches on the front needle (in this case the stitches on your 16").

When knitting the magic loop you want to keep the two halves of the loop close together to prevent any loose stitches or ladders, like this:
Continue knitting as per pattern through to marker D (purple in photos). This is where you switch back to your original yarn for leg 1 (the center if you're using a center pull ball. You will always switch to the working yarn coming from the back needle, see? In the picture you can see both working yarns, the one you abandoned when you came marker D (on the right) and the one you're using after marker D (on the left).
Knit according to pattern back to marker A and you've done one decrease round. You are also free of the 16" circular and have all of your work on the 40" circular and if you've been paying attention you realize you are close to neutral position for the magic loop. Turn your work so that the needle you've been working (right needle) is in the back and make sure the left needle has stitches mounted on it and not the cable. Here's a pic. The yellow marker is A and is on the right needle. Notice the loop of extra cable on the left.
Now we will do what we did the last time we were at a hip marker. We'll pull the back needle until the stitches are resting on the needle and we have enough slack to work the stitches on the front needle. Voila! You're magic looping!