I am so glad that I posted my question over on yahoo Niebling groups!

My thinking 45 st. vs 30 st shift change would have been WRONG.  

Much Thanks to Heather for setting me straight on this issue!  She writes:

...Regardless of how you arrange your needles, to make the pattern line up, you
only shift 30 stitches. The pattern doesnt care if you're on 2 circulars, or
1 circular, or 90 dpns (although other people watching you knit will think
you're massaging a porcupine at that point ;)

The choice of needles doesnt affect the pattern in any way, they're just
holding onto the stitches until you get to them. You may want to rearrange
how your two circulars are sitting once you've done the shift over, but the jump of 30 stitches to change where the round starts? That doesnt change. 

See how much I have learned with just one question! This opens up so many new projects for me as I now understand much better ;)

Just a quick update.  I did end up restarting my frosted fern Niebling. Mainly because I didn't like the center start. It kept bugging me.  So I learned how to do Emily Ocker's cast-on for two circular needles. It took six times practicing before I  had an good looking center start.


   Still using my size 2 addi circulars as that is the smallest needles that I have but this time I went with size 30 cotton. This is giving me a fair looseness to the knitting which is what I want for my first Niebling until I am much more confident mainly because I am such a newbie at this.   Also I am using 2 markers per needle which is giving 3 sections on each needle. Without those markers I am hopelessly lost and confused. Not that this project is that hard, but it does require alot of concentration for me. Oddly I am finding this concentration need to be as relaxing as any of my other knitting.

 I had already started my frosted ferns earlier in month before I realized someone on the yahoo Niebling group has generously supplied a realigned and charted pattern.   I'm just now to the infamous 30st shift row.  So I'm hoping my thinking is correct that when knitting this on two circs that I will need to do 45 st shift from needle 1 to needle 2 and vice versa and than... re-position my markers back to my 69 sts per marker section which = 207 sts per needle. (equals total of 414 sts for row 75)

  Am so really hoping someone can confirm or correct my thinking on this shift row for using two circular needles!   It's truly been an inspiring pleasure to look through everyone's work over at the yahoo groups!