Increasing onto Turkish Cast on

How-to Questions
1

When using this method to cast on for toe up socks worked on a circular, what is a good method to use to increase for enlarging? :??

2

I use the bar increase on toe up socks, but you could knit into front and back also.

3

You can use any method for making toes that uses a provisional cast on. Right now I like the rectangle toe a lot. (I think it’s pretty much the same as the “easy toe” in Sensational Knitted Socks.) Here’s a pattern that uses that toe. Note that if you choose a rectangle toe, you wouldn’t start working in the round right away – you would work back and forth on one side to make your rectangle first. (If you look at the pattern, I think it will make sense. Just use the turkish cast on for your provisional cast on.)

You could also do a short row toe if you wanted to.

Or, probably the easiest of all – you could just start working in the round from the get go (at the tip of the toe) and increase from there. If you do that, make sure you do a couple plain rounds before you start increasing.

As for my favorite increase, it seems to keep changing, but right now I’m partial to KRL and KLL. Amy has videos on this page.

HTH

4

Just so we don’t confuse the OP, if you go by what it says on Amy’s page of increases, a bar increase is the same as kfb. I think you were probably talking about M1L and M1R (what Amy calls M1F and M1B and which I have also seen referred to as a strand increase). I don’t mean to “correct” you, Kemp, since there’s really no “right” way of doing things in knitting, but I thought it might be helpful to clarify .

sigh I really wish someone would standardize these things… everything seems to have a million different names for the same thing, and sometimes they totally conflict with each other. :shrug:

5

I have been using the bar increase, but thought there might be one that works and looks better. I choose Turkish Cast on after wasting two days trying to do the short row toe, provisional and the others mentioned, I understand the methods, but I’m just not getting those. The turkish was easy from the start. Go figure. Thanks.