Calling all circular sock knitters!

#1

OK - I need HELP.

Here is as far as Ive gotten on my first sock…

I cast on using Silver’s wonderful sock tutorial, which was written (very clearly, I might add!) for DPNs. Ive translated on my own until now.

I was looking and looking last night at other online circular sock patterns to try to figure out how to do the gusset decreases, and I swear I was reading Swahili all of the sudden! :??

There are 81 sts on my needles right now. Is my working yarn supposed to end up in the middle of the turned heel? If someone would be SO generous as to come up with a formula for finishing this sock for me, I would be OH so grateful!!

#2

You should have an even number of stitches, so for this formula, increase 1 stitch somewhere. (I’d do a M1)

82 stitches on your needle
Place markers to divide sts into 25, 25, 32. (25 for sides, 32 for the instep)
Decrease the sides every other round, 9 times. (do not decrease the instep)
64 sts (16, 16, 32).

K ever round until sock is 2" shorter than the length of your foot.
Begin toe decreases.
Decrease at each side every other row for 10 rows. 24 sts remaining.

Graft the toes. (12 sts on each side.)

I’m assuming you know where to place these decreases. If you need more help, just let me know. :slight_smile:

#3

I didnt even THINK of placing markers!! :doh:

Silver, you are the BEST. I wasnt meaning to bother ya, because I know you are bogged down with work. :oops:

BIG SMOOCH to you!! :blush: [color=red]MUAH![/color] :blush:

#4

No problem!! I’m not working today. Instead, I’m getting ready for my daughter’s birthday slumber party tonight. We’re expecting 7 girls.

I think I’d rather be working. LOL

#5

I think I’d rather be working. LOL

And tonight, I bet you’ll be thinking “I’d rather be sleeping!” :roflhard: Trust me, you can sleep when they’re grown, and then you’ll be missing all those giggles (like me). :crying:

Kelly, congrats on starting your first pair of socks. I never had the nerve to try them myself before I found Silver’s excellent tutorial. My learning style must have pictures. :smiley:

#6

hijack! hijack!

Yes, I’m hopeful that they’ll crash early. At the last slumber party (last year), they were all talking about how they were gonna stay up all night watching movies. I put a movie in at 11pm… they were all out by midnight. :roflhard:

#7

I found this old topic.
Silver said that when you decrease the sides back to 16 sts…She said, decrease “every other” row. I just asked a question about this area of a sock. My directions call for me to decrease every row until i am back to 16 sts. Would I maybe not have what look like holes runnning up the sock if I decreased every other row?

Cindy

#8

:rofling: omg i was reading this as a brand new thread and could not figure out for the life of me why Silver was having a slumber party on a Monday night! :rofling:

[size=2][color=gray]back to your previously asked question[/color][/size]

#9

Silver, you know that those girls are NOT gonna crash early :roflhard: :rofling: sorry :blush: :oops: …been there, done that…it was fun, though…my baby will be 21 in May…no more slumber parties :crying:
KK…WTG on the socks, girl :wink: I have a dvd coming to show knitting socks with 2 circs :cheering: :cheering: I figured that I would have a much easier time watching it rather than deciphering written instrucions…AND…I love knitting dvds :happydance: :cheering:

#10

That’s going to be a beauty, Kelly!

And Silver…I’ve always wondered why the call it a “slumber” party when no one slumbers? Hopefully there will be no fights or tears. I’ve got 3 girls…been there done that. :roflhard:

#11

OMG this is SUCH an OLD thread! That sock was frogged LONG AGO! :roflhard:

#12

LOL Well she started it!! :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard:

#13

No you won’t have a hole. Decrease row, knit a row is standard and makes a nice decrease. But follow whatever your pattern says.

Kath