I was once in a yarn shop (once?) And observed a woman knitting socks in a most unusual method.
Being a beginning knitter at the time, I had no desire to try and figure out what she was doing. Now I am and have searched everywhere in an attempt to figure it out.
She used two dpn’s, but DID NOT turn her work. Instead, she simply knitted from the left needle to the right needle, then slid the stitches on the right needle (now the left needle) from left to right. Just as if knitting an I Cord, but instead, a sock.
Has anyone ever seen, or heard of this?
Note: I do remember it did not have seams.
You certainly have me curious about the method. I’ve done double knitting and it will generate a kind of fabric in the round but you still have to turn the work. Wonder what the method was?
You two have me thinking. Slip stitch dk for a sock inside a sock, maybe. If she knit and slipped then slid the stitches over on the needle to do the second sock with the other end of the yarn or a second ball, you’d have to be around long enough to see that eventually it does get turned.
@ OP If you find out what this method is, do let us know, please.
Somewhere I saw a post by a lady who was knitting socks in a yarn shop. Another lady was there and SHE was knitting socks 2 at a time, and remarked to the first lady that it was easier (and implying smarter) to knit the socks TAAT. Whereupon the first knitter revealed her knitting to be “a sock within a sock,” thereby trumping the other knitter’s attempt at superiority. It was a hilarious thread that stuck with me, but I must admit I have a hard enough time knitting one sock, let alone two at a time of any sort!
Oh Jinx, that story stuck with me too. I think I first read it in Wendy Johnson’s book of knitting reflections, “Wendy Knits”. It’s a wonderful book, even if you don’t knit socks.