I forgot to mention in my previous post that when I make a pair of something I make both at the same time. In this way I can keep them the same.
I continued working the first set of rounds in the vein of stitch 1, make 1 on either end with a repeat on the other side so that I eventually ended up with what looked like a small cap now with a total of 52 stitches in the round. Basically I was increasing by 4 stitches on each round until the desired number was reached.
I repeated that with another chain of stitches so that I had two small caps.
By the way, the needle is made from bone and was purchased from Egil's Woodstuffs at Gulf Wars this last year.
