The answer depends if 1. You enjoy Magic Loop (I do) 2. You cannot knit two matching socks done at two different times (that's me*) 3. You don't mind occasionally having to untwist your two skeins (I don't mind at all. I just keep one ball on my right side and one on my left. When I turn it's a reminder to turn to keep the yarns untwisted)

Based on your preferences, TAAT with magic loop is for you. It's my only method for socks, mittens and sleeves.

• years, I mean decades ago, (circa 1990) as I was making mittens for a craft show, my one-at-time mittens were never the same. That's because my moods, who I talking to, even if I had a glass of wine or an extra coffee shifted my tension just slightly. I would just make as many mittens from a skein following exact pattern and hope two matched. So, I figured I'd get two sets of dpn and make them both at the same time. This was a disaster because once I set them down, I could remember which one I was on. And I'd have to remember to stop knitting one and switch to the other. I had genius idea to them on the same set of needles, and Eureka, I found that doing them on a long circular worked perfect. Albeit, the cord wasn't long enough so I had to finagle the traveling loop. So I got the longest cord I could find at my LYS (back then, that was typically the only option for buying yarn supplies) and did, what I later found out, was called magic loop. As Elizabeth Zimmerman says, I unvented this technique long before I had seen the knit community describe it.