Converting sock pattern to circulars

Hi there

I have just started knitting my first pair of socks. I chose a simple free pattern that I could use with some leftover yarn.

I clearly haven’t read the pattern before starting and now that I come to the heel I realise that this pattern is for knitting on 3 double pointed needles rather than on circular needles.

I have knitted the entire cuff so don’t want to abondon this now.

Can anyone point me in the right direction for what to do. I’m a relatively inexperienced knitter, have pretty much only knitted on circulars. So I was probably already going to get confused with this pattern.

Pattern is Blueberry Waffle Socks by Sandy Turner

I’m up to the part where it asks me to divide for the heel and I just don’t know where to start… Since I can’t devide… Should I put bits on waste yarn etc… And what should I do when it says to turn etc.

It’s easy to work this out on the circular. So far you’ve knit a tube. Put in stitch markers to indicate which sts are on needles 1,2 and 3. Then you can continue with the heel directions as written. It may help to use different color stitch markers to indicate the splits between needles. If you want you can use the yarn tail to approximately indicate the beginning of needle #1.


Congrats on beginning your first socks!

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Nitsy,
I started knitting socks pretty recently, and let me just tell you: it’s extremely addictive! I use two circular needles also and love, love, love them. I just started my first pair of toe-up socks last week and am having lots of fun experiencing the different approach; it’s great brain exercise to conceptualize how the design works differently than cuff down. Enjoy!

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It’s the conceptualisation that I’m struggling with :sweat_smile: It is good fun… But I have a feeling winter on this side of the world will be finished by the time I finish these socks… If I finish them!

Thank you for your help!

I have gotten so far and now I am a little confused again.

Perhaps maybe I need to knit a pattern written for circs :thinking: I have trouble visualising it and makes it much more difficult when it is talking about needles I don’t have.

Use the markers to mark the division between the needles and then also put a marker on the knitting itself. This should be in different colors of marker or loops of scrap yarn. You can then code the needles as #1,#2 and #3.
At this point this is only in order to work the heel and know which sts and needles belong to the heel. Later, it’ll be handy when you work the toe.
There’s always Kristen Belle’s directions for socks
https://www.kristinbelle.com/socks
and @engblom may have a recommendation for a single circular.

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Thank you. I. Appear to be making progress. I believe it is me not understanding the pattern rather than me having trouble converting it to circs :joy: I just have the toes to do on the first sock and Im finished. Fingers crossed it’s simple. Thank you again for rescuing me with my knitting project, it seems you have rescued me on just about everything I have knitted since I picked up my first pair of needles.

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Delighted to help. Are you sure that this is your first pair of socks? That heel looks perfect. Well done!

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Yes, definitely my first pair… Well not a pair yet… I have the toes and the second foot to complete yet :grin:
I was concentrating so hard to get the heel right I forgot to change my yarn to the contrasting colour… Oh well next pair! (There will be another pair, I’ve quite enjoyed it)!

Thanks again!

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Wow, I’ve never made socks, sounds far too difficult for me but you’ve made this look easy! It’s so neat!

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As always couldn’t of done it without Salmonmac’s help. My first attempt at a jersey last year and I dived right into a fair isle pattern… It definitely would not have been finished without Salmonnac.

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Creations,
I just started knitting socks last year after avoiding them. I also thought they would be too difficult. What I discovered was that if you follow the instructions, the magic of the heel shaping is just that: magic. The challenging bit for me was the Kitchener grafting of the toe for the cuff down socks, but it becomes easier with practice and until then, you just go slow. For the toe up socks, which I have just started, the eastern cast on is weird but simple and eliminates the need for grafting the toe. In short, socks are a blast, and the yarns for them are a treat in and of themselves. I heartily encourage you to give it a go!

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Gosh I think you might be talking me into it!
I dislike everything I knit. I like knitting and have been happy to pvercome prbkems and learn new things but I don’t actually want the finished things :sweat_smile:
Socks could be the answer as I can make them for my son and not have to wear them myself.
Do sock knitters make sock which fit I shoes? That sounds totally wrong but lots of sock look fabulous and cosy like sofa socks. If that makes sense. I’d need shoe wearing socks for my little boy.

Ambitious! Love it!

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Are socks, difficult? Not really because they can be as simple as a hat.

(Note: this poster, O.J.J., has not yet completed the socks he started X year ago. :scream: )

Here is my sock wip thread.

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I haven’t made a hat!

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