This winter my feet have been very very cold for some reason.
Maybe I just need better shoes, but
I thought it would be fun to make some knit
socks, specifically in merino wool
because wool is very very warm and I don't feel like I have enough wool socks.
So this is my first go at making socks.
As you can see I do have a knitting machine here
that I use very often for my work.
For knitwear development which is
my job, or just making fun knitted stuff for myself or for whoever.
I've made lots of stuff but never socks before
So I was really excited to try socks.
This is what one finished sock looks like.
I made them a little bit large for me because I wanted them to be more like slippers
rather than socks, so they're kind of loose
and super comfy.
As you can see there is a good bit of short rowing in the heel
and in the toe.
And it's tubular knitted.
The whole thing is basically tubular knitted
with some short rowing for shaping.
And there's a kitchener stitch here.
This is kind of at the top.
Top of the toes, you just kind of have a
hidden seam here.
Where you finish the tubular.
So this is the first sock and
I did not film it because I wanted to
get all of the mistakes out of the way on the first sock and
then I thought I would film the second sock.
And it's good because I royally messed up on the first sock.
I made the foot really really long, like it was
extremely long. I obviously got messed up with the measurements of
the tubular compared to how big the foot
should be. Anyway, I had to basically unknit
partway down to about here and then I had to attach it on the machine
and reshape the toe again.
But anyway, this one fits me pretty well
So I'm just going to make an exact copy of this sock.
I followed Diana Sullivan's YouTube tutorial
It's three parts on making this sock.
Most of it's the same. I changed a few
things like I didn't do the rib. She did rib for the ankle part.
I just did a regular tubular because I just wanted
the whole sock to be the same and
I kind of wanted to just fold it down and I thought
that would be fine. I didn't really want to go through the trouble of making
a rib top and a tubular jersey bottom
so I just did the whole thing in tubular jersey.
Besides that, everything else I did the same. I followed her instructions.
It's a really good tutorial. I'll link it below.
If you want to try to make socks as well.
The first thing I did was make a tension swatch because
you have to know your gauge and you have to
test the yarn you want to use, so I made
this little tubular swatch to see how many stitches per inch it was going to end up being
And I followed that as far as measurements
for the sock. For how many rows and needles to use.
The first thing you're going to do
is start on this side. Use your waste yarn to start.
At least for my sock, I use
waste yarn.
I'm using white as my waste yarn
My knitting machine is a 7 gauge.
It's basically a 7 gauge.
It's a medium mid-gauge machine.
It's not super chunky, and you can kind of see on here
It's not super chunky, it's not super fine
medium medium mid-gauge
and then you go and knit your needles just
I have my tension where I want my tension
So you knit it all through, and then
you put the comb on.
This is the comb.
I also normally knit in the middle of my machine.
I don't know if you can see I'm kind of on the side
The center of my machine is actually this pole
But I didn't want the pole to be
in the center of my face, so I thought I would
I thought I would film it from
kind of the side of the machine because
the sock doesn't use that many needles. It uses
about this many needles.
That way you can see my lovely face :)
And the yarn is kind of to the side.
Rather than right in the middle of my face.
It's a little odd because I don't usually use the side of the machine.
After that, I put the comb in.
The comb is hanging.
I do left part on the top bed, and I'm going to do the
N to the PR on the bottom bed.
You machine knitters at home know what I'm talking about
All these things have letters but I forget what all these letters mean.
You just know what all the buttons do.
As I go this way it's going to knit just the bottom bed.
And as I go that way it's just going to knit the top bed.
Let's do a few rows of that just because
it helps to
Then you just have a little bit more slack on the waste yarn.
This tension is a little bit tight, but
I don't want to mess up my tension because this is the tension I want for the sock
So for my waste yarn the tension is a little iffy.
But that's fine with me.
We want to start on this side with
the blue yarn.
I need to go get scissors. Hold on.
Ok. Got my scissors.
I don't want to cut this.
I'm just going to pull this thread through.
I reuse my waste yarn.
I'm done with this yarn, so I'm going to pull it all the way through.
I'm going to put my blue yarn in for knitting.
I'm just hoping this sock comes out the same as the other sock.
I'm hoping I remember how to do everything properly.
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