How To Knit Socks On Circular Needles

There are two common methods of knitting with circular needles.

How to knit socks on circular needles. Knitting in the round and knitting flat. This project is a simple tube sock that acquaints the knitter with knitting on two circular needles. They dont require all that much yarn and are quite useful. No matter if you use dpns or circular needles i will show you how to do the technique on both types of needles.

Cast stitches onto a flexible circular needle and work the body heel flap and gusset. 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. One of the most fun things to knit are socks. The easiest way to determine the length of circular knitting needles is to lay the needles out flat and measure from tip to tip with a measuring tape.

12 sock knitting patterns for beginners using circular needles. The length includes the two needle points and the connecting cord. Plus you cant have too many socks especially during the cooler months. How to knit socks on circular needles.

This method makes the knitter feel a little more in control of the socks. 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. In this instruction video i will show you how to cast on for toe up socks. The project includes how to measure for a pattern determine the correct gauge and how to join rounds on two sets of circular needles.