Table of Contents
Introduction How to use this book
All about socks
Sock anatomy
Measuring foot size
Choosing the correct size
Tools and materials
Yarn
- Hand-dyed vs machine-dyed
- Yarn colours
- How to knit matching socks
- Yarn fibres
- Yarn weight/thickness
Needles
- Needle materials
- Needle types
Extras
Checking your tension/gauge
Importance of tension/gauge
Substituting yarn
Swatching
Measuring your tension/gauge
Achieving tension/gauge in a pattern
Sock recipes
Getting started
Cuff-down socks
Toe-up socks
Two-needle socks
Variations on the sock recipes
- Contrast cuffs, heels and toes
- Scrappy socks
- Shortie socks
- No-heel socks
Sock elements
Cuffs
- 1 x 1 rib cuff
- 2 x 2 rib cuff
- 3 x 1 rib cuff
- Half-twisted rib cuff
- Two-colour rib cuff (corrugated rib cuff)
- Picot edge cuff
Heels
- Cuff-down heel flap and gusset options
- Common heel (stocking (stockinette)
stitch with garter stitch edge) - Slipstitch heel
- Garter stitch heel
- Striped (two-colour) heel
- Toe-up options
- Simple shaped heel
- Double stitch short row heel (boomerang heel)
- Wrap and turn short row heel
- Toe-up gusset and heel flap
- Forethought heel
Toes
- Toes for cuff-down socks
- Classic wedge toe
- Rounded toe
- Four-point toe
- Toes for toe-up socks
- Basic toe
- Banded toe
Sock projects
Sloping Hills by Winwick Mum
Under the Stars by Emma Potter
Twisting Pathways by Vikki Bird
Spring Lace by Rachel Fletcher
Bracken Cables by Olivia Villareal
Summer Meadows by Carmen Jorissen
Autumn Berries by Kaitlin Barthold
Red Sky At Night by Abby Brown
Beads of Dew by Anniken Allis
Winter Snow by Kerstin Balke
Knitting in the round
On double-pointed needles (DPNs)
Joining the round
On a short circular needle
On a long circular needle for magic loop
On flexible short needles
Two at a time magic loop knitting
Sock techniques
Casting on
- Long-tail cast on (thumb method)
- German twisted cast on
- Cable cast on (two-needle cast on)
- Alternating cable cast on
- Judy's magic cast on
Basic stitches
- Knit stitch
- Purl stitch
- Slip stitch
- K1tbl (knit 1 through the back leg)
Reading charts
Increasing
- Kfb (knit front and back)
- Yarn over increases (yo)
- Make 1 stitch (M1L & M1R)
Decreasing
- Right-leaning decreases (k2tog, p2tog)
- Left-leaning decreases (skpo, ssk)
- Double decreases (cdd, k3tog, sk2po)
Adding beads
Picking up stitches
- Along edge from right side of work
- Along edge from wrong side of work
- From waste yarn for forethought heel
Cables
Short rows
- Wrap and turn (W&T) short rows
- Double stitch short rows (German short rows)
Working with more than one yarn/colour
- Holding two yarns together at once
- Changing colours
- Carrying yarn along inside of your work
- Jogless stripes
- Corrugated rib
- Stranded colourwork and Fair Isle knitting
Casting (binding) off
- Knit cast (bind) off (in the round)
- Knit cast (bind) off (working flat)
- Three-needle cast (bind) off
- Jeny’s surprisingly stretchy cast (bind) off
Finishing your project
- Grafting/Kitchener stitch
- Mattress stitch
- Weaving in ends
- Fixing holes
- Blocking your project
Abbreviations
About the author
Index
Thanks
The designers
