FLOSS YOUR SOCKS! tutorial link youtube no sew flat seam machine knit socks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W3GrluyVWM
no sew flat sock seams single bed machine knit.wmv

FLOSS YOUR SOCKS!
This is a 12 minute tutorial of an idea that came to me after stitching up side seams on socks that I knitted on my single bed (I don't have a ribber) standard knitting machine. Titled "no sew flat sock seams single bed machine knit"

I concluded a few improvements after completion:
1. that it would be better to come from the bottom with the dental floss bobbin instead of over the top and down.

2. it is not necessary to knot the main yarn being pulled through the edge stitches - just be sure to have enough length to make sure it doesn't come un-threaded from the dental floss leader. This way there won't be a yarn knot to hang up while coming through the edge stitches.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W3GrluyVWM

Samantha Socks

this is a medley of hand knit and machine knit techniques

I goofed up on the lace pattern on the machine. However, it turned out easier to replicate in the hand knit section on the foot. So it worked out easier.

Now that I know what NOT to do on lace knitting on the machine I think I've got it a ok going forward.

I made my own punch card for the slip stich heel, and worked out the methodology for it. ODD no. sts (so each end is slip stitch) watch the side tension - DONT pull the side stitches tight.

Suz.

youtube link for a short tutorial: speeding up your dutch-heel slip/knit work

http://www.youtube.com/user/susiefreckleface?feature=mhee#p/a/u/0/Iaqs49fXaQA

roflmao

Hippie child socks - ages 4-5

size 3 Kollage Yarns square dpns.
8sts (7.75sts) and 12rows per inch guage.
Regia stretch - Partie

c/o 41
knit 1 row
divide onto 4 dpns 11-10-10-10
to join - slip the end st over the 11th st on opposite end.
proceed as normal

CUFF 10-10-10-10:
10 cuff rounds - k1 p1

LEG 10-10-10-10:
20 stockinette rounds

HEEL FLAP ROWS:
slip st heel flap 20 sts, 20 rows

TURN HEEL ROWS:
sl-1, k2 past ctr, ssk, k1, turn (5 left)
sl-1, p5, (ie. purl 2 past ctr), p2tog, p1, turn (5 left)
sl-1, k6, ssk, k1, turn (3 left)
sl-1, p7, p2tog, p1, turn (3 left)
sl-1, k8, ssk, k1, turn (1 left)
sl-1, p9, p2tog, p1, turn (1 left)

GUSSETS:
pick up 10 gussets
knit the gusset pick up round twisting the pickups [and my secret slip/pass/over to eliminate gusset hole]
distribute stitches 18-9-9-18 and count the center bottom as your round markers
gusset decreases are on alternate rounds
round 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 are mirrored decrease rounds
round 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 are knit rounds
at end of round 13 redistribute stitches to: 10-10-10-10
(from 11-9-9-11)

FOOT:
25 foot rounds 10-10-10-10

TOES:
toe decreases mirrored alternate rounds until 2-2-2-2 then slip one in middle over other in middle and put on two dpns = 3-3
thread tail through 6 sts, pull, weave, cut.

TIPS:
when ssk decreases - slip the 1st onto right needle normal through front to back, BUT... slip the second stitch by 'knitting into the back loop' but don't drop it off - merely fudge the tip of your left needle into the 1st slipped stitch as if to pick it up , yarn over - and knit them tog. Doing this flips the underlying slipped stitch so it lays almost as flat as a k2tog.

Chandler's preemie socks

Chandler’s preemie socks


Preemie socks on five dpns.
For a quicker knit-up use four dpns on the leg portion; switch to five dpns at the gusset rounds through the foot and toes.

You'll notice that at the heel flap you begin with slip one and purl across... That is because you divide for the heel flap by knitting the first twelve stitches of the round onto CONTRAST waste yarn - 4 rows should be fine... and then with your main yarn technically at the end of the round just completed, you purl back across the row (i.e. the last 12 stitches worked). When you pick up the slip stitches to make the side gussets twist the stitches by knitting into the back of the stitches and viola... no holes!!!

1. c/o 24
2. rib 1x1 10 rounds
3. stockinette 10 rounds
4. slip stitch heel flap will be 9 rows.
4a. knit 12 sts onto contrast WY - four rows will be fine.
4b. Now, you will begin the heel flap with a purl row and end with a purl row
s1 - purl 11, turn
*s1 - k1*, repeat across, turn
repeat these two rows for a total of 9 rows
5. turn heel:
s1 - knit 1 past center - ssk - k1 turn
s1 - purl 3 - p2tog - p1 - turn
s1 - knit 3 - ssk - k1 - turn
s1 - purl 3 - p2tog - p1 - turn
s1 - knit 4 - ssk - turn
s1 - purl 4 - p2tog turn
s1 - knit 5 and......
6. continue knitting in the round: pick up 6 sts anklebone, unravel WY and pick up instep sts, pick up 6 sts on other anklebone knit to end of round. count this as one round.
7. begin standard gusset decreases:
on odd rounds - decrease
on even rnds - knit
proceed gusset decreases to 24 sts remain
standard decreases at anklebone gusset: k2tog, knit to other anklebone gusset and ssk.
8. stockinette to round 36 or 5/8 inch less than desired length.
9. begin standard sock toe decreases:
on odd rounds - decrease
on even rounds - knit
decrease rounds: k1, ssk, knit to last 3 sts of instep, k2tog, k1; k1, ssk, knit to last 3 sts of sole, k2tog, k1.

proceed with the toe decreases until 12 sts remain
10. end with knit round and kitchener when 12 sts remain. Weave in ends.

Enjoy!
Suz

getting around to it

seriously a dishcloth design for those of us who need to get a round to it.
so here's your round 2 it.