I want to try and knit some socks and found this pattern.
How easy would they be to make.
The most complicated thing I have ever made was a pair of fingerless gloves. I know the knit and purl but that is about it. Am I crazy to try these?
I’ve done a lot of knitting, although I’ve never tried socks. I can’t weigh in on whether they’d be easy or hard, but what have you got to lose by trying? Most everything I learned beyond the basic knit and purl I learned by finding a pattern and having a go at it.
You might want to try them out first in a cheap yarn, so you’re not fretting about messing up the expensive stuff. At least I’d go that route.
Good luck!
The pattern looks pretty easy, and as FairyChatMom says, what have you got to lose?
And knitting socks is a heck of a lot of fun and far simpler than it looks.
If you can make gloves I’m sure you can make these. Keep us posted on how they turn out!
I just learned how to make socks and am on my second pair. My only advice is - have faith in the pattern. Don’t try to think it out - it won’t make sense until you’ve made the socks. At least that was my experience. Reading the pattern, especially the heel part, just made me go huh? Shaping the heel was the most confusing part and I held on to those pattern directions like they were a life raft - which worked! There are three (so far!) perfectly good socks to show for it.
Mrs. Bricker’s comment, after I showed her the question and the thread: trusting the pattern is great, as long as the pattern is well-written. She does more crochet than knitting, but has done a fair amount of knitting and she thought the pattern looked challenging.
If you can make gloves, you can totally make these. You might want to knit a test sock using the toe-up method in plain stockinette first, to make sure you understand the mechanics of the method. I got cuff-down socks my first time through, but toe-up messes with my brain a little. The illusion knitting will make things a little more complicated, but not as complicated as five color fair isle.
Just take your time and follow the pattern. Don’t be afraid to be frustrated.
What an awesome pattern! I have to go home to my needles right now!!
My suggestion for stuff with a color pattern, like illusion knitting or fair isle: get a copy of the pattern that you can mark up as you go along. It’s the only way I can keep my place in the pattern
Well here goes nothing.
I’m sure I will be back with more questions soon.
It only took a bit of last night and all of this morning, but I got one toe done!
Yay Ludy!
What colour yarn are you using?
I am using a brick red and a cream. If they work out I’ll post a pic.
Now it’s my turn to be too late with the answer. I looked over the pattern and, while it assumes you’ve got some experience with socks, it doesn’t look too bad. Ludy, if you run into trouble, feel free to check back into this thread. I’ll keep an eye out for it and lend a hand if I can. Meanwhile, I’ve added another site to my favorites!
Woohoo!
This would be much easier if they wrote the pattern in English! :smack:
I think I need an English - Knittese dictionary.
I’ll be happy to translate it for you. I’ve printed the pattern out; I should have a translation tonight or tomorrow morning. Besides, it gives me an excuse to print out an interesting looking sock pattern. One question: are you using red or cream for your main color (the color the toe of the socks will be)? If you want to get adventurous, you could do wone with a brick red toe and top and one with a cream one.
Excuse me. I forgot to do this this morning.
[ul][li]MC is Main Color, the color the toe of the sock will be. If the toe of your sock is red, MC means red.[/li][li]CC is Contrasting Color, the other color you’re working with. If the toe of your sock is red, CC means cream.[/li][li]dpns are double-pointed needles. I’m going to translate the directions assuming you’re using them, if only because I haven’t tried knitting socks on two circular needles yet.[/li][li]sm means slip marker.[/li][li]kfb means knit in the front and back of the stitch.[/li][li]st is stitch or stitches, but you knew that, of course.[/li][li]I think st st is stockinette stitch.[/li][li]rnds is rounds[/ul][/li]I think that about covers it. Does that help? Fellow knitters, please chime in if I’ve missed anything or gotten anything wrong.
All of knitting basically boils down to knit, purl, increase, and decrease. If you can do that, you can make socks.
The oddest part of knitting your first socks IMHO is turning the heel. The instructions will appear to make no sense. Your knitting will look odd while you’re in the middle of it. Trust the pattern, follow directions, and you should have a “Hey! It looks like a sock!” moment. Especially with toe-ups.
And remember, the worst thing about making socks is, once you’ve finished one you have to make another one. Same goes for mittens and sleeves.
Unless you knit two at once! Unfortunately, that probably won’t work for illusion knitting or things like lace. I’m sure you could do it if you had two sets of hands you could work independently of each other, but then you could knit two at the same time on separate sets of needles, right?
St st is most certainly stockinette stitch.
Sm is sometimes also written as pm, which means “pass marker”.
Absolutely. I make all my own socks, and the second always, always sucks. For a while I made mismatched pairs, which was more interesting, but are a bit of a conversation piece on the bus when you’re wearing shorts.