How To Knit Socks Easy With A Circular Needle
All you need to be able to do is work in the.
How to knit socks easy with a circular needle. I just designed a pair of socks for my beginning sock knitting class and have made the pattern a free download. Work in straight pattern stitch. This project is a simple tube sock that acquaints the knitter with knitting on two circular needles. It is a good intermediate step between working with double pointed needles and working two socks at a time on two circular needles if you love to knit socks thats extremely efficient.
Needle 2 work straight ie. Cast stitches onto a flexible circular needle and work the body heel flap and gusset. My silver ring is actually a knitting needle gauge. K to last 3 sts k2tog k1.
12 sock knitting patterns for beginners using circular needles. Decrease for the gusset round 2. Knit all stitches if working in stockinette stitch rnd 3. Rep rounds 1 and 2 until 52 56 60 64 68 72 sts remain.
The project includes how to measure for a pattern determine the correct gauge and how to join. Heel flap on 9 inch circular needles duration. Knitting socks on a set of circular needles is moderately easy and requires some knowledge of knitting. The first time you knit two socks at the same time youre likely to be confused some of the time but trust that everything will work out and soon you may be wondering why you ever knit socks one at a time.
If youre comfortable with knitting in the round and are ready for a new challenge knit your own socks. Plus you cant have too many socks especially during the cooler months. They dont require all that much yarn and are quite useful. How to knit socks on circular needles.
Knitting two socks on two circular needles at the same time is a bit of knitterly magic that like so many other things in knitting seems a lot more complicated than it is. For our purposes that would be 36 sts. These socks are designed with the first time sock knitter in mind. This method makes the knitter feel a little more in control of the socks.
Needle 1 work to last 3 sts k2tog k1. Ssk k1 k to end. Needle 3 k1 ssk work to end. One of the most fun things to knit are socks.