Knitting Scrappy Socks - Part One
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 พ.ค. 2024
- Part one of a mini series showing how I knit scrappy socks, an overview of my process, how to ensure a good fit and the techniques, tools and materials I use. Part two next Friday. ❤️
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Love to meet other throwers. Was always told I was knitting incorrectly but no other way felt comfortable so I used to not knit in front of people!!! Now in my senior years I know it doesn’t matter what other people think 😂. Very excited to learn to knit socks. Thanks Kathryn for the very clear instructions.
Hello Ellen, oh those know it all types who tell folk they're doing stuff wrong. I was once crocheting (I do that weird too) and my neighbour came round and said that's not the proper way to do it. I don't care any more either, as long as I enjoy it. ❤️
Yes! It’s just a shame I didn’t tell them so at the time!! Haha.
Oh my! I loved seeing the cardboard foot shapes. I am a beginning knitter. Verrrrry beginner. I'm not quite ready to attempt socks (my head is still on free-form machine quilting as my next sidebar stitching), but I love listening to you talk about your projects. You educate us in so many different ways about all sorts of needlework. Thank you🌷🌷🌷
Thank you Meridel so pleased you like it. When you are ready and have time, I am sure you can make socks 😁❤️
I thought I was the ONLY one left using my 73 Year-Old-Happy-Ager Knees….I agree One must have a “box for the Fiddlies” for my ChiaoGoo changeable needles…..love the CARDBOARD sizing of family bare feet….Auntie Lilly and my Finnish Grandmother Ina seem to be on the same page when it comes to knitting and passing it on to the future…..
There is much to learn from the 'new' ways of knitting but the old ways have their place too don't they? Apart from anything else, it's lovely to keep them alive. I have tried to teach my daughter to knit but she never took to it, though she likes to crochet. My son has asked about knitting occasionally because he finds it fascinating so I perhaps I will try and teach him, the Aunty Lily, Granny Ina method of course. 😁❤️
Loved going through all the stages of preparation, need to get all the sock blanks done for everyone. Looking forward to seeing part two ❤
Fabulous tutorial... clear instructions and extremely helpful tips so far...I will now be using your method for my scrappy socks. I partake and thoroughly enjoy your videos ... inspiring and brilliant, thank you wholeheartedly for all your efforts and considerable time you take to share your talents. Most appreciated. B
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it and thank you ☺️
Finally! Someone who casts on and knits the same way that I do. I think it must be a generational thing because my Nana (born in 1898) taught me. I've tried to copy the fluid, speedy way of others on many tutorials but my fingers won't join in. I didn't know I am a thrower 😁. Just giving it a name legitimizes it as a method so I am happy.
Love the "2 strands at a time" knitting. It's a game changer. Ditto the cardboard feet. I now feel cautiously optimistic that I might become a sock knitter. I've knitted everything else but socks have always eluded me...until now. Thank you Kathryn.
Mary x
My pleasure Mary, yes I learnt the terminology of thrower or picker on the internet. Also referred to as English style or continental. For years of course, I didn't know there was another way. I can now 'pick' with the wool in my left hand but for some bizarre reason, only when knitting fairy isle, when I have one colour in each hand. When I use only one colour, I go back to what I have been doing for fifty plus years. 😂 I am certain you can knit socks, hope you enjoy it if you give it a try. ❤️
Hurrah! I've been knitting for over 60 years and have made quite a few socks...and here you are teaching us a bunch of new things. 🙂 I, too, have bought different needles, but I'll now buy some of the Twist brand to replace what I have for sock knitting. I imagine I'll watch this series numerous times, as I'm excited to learn how to knit two pair at a time. Thanks again!!
My pleasure Kate, hope you like part 2 next week 😁❤️
@@k3n.clothtales I'm sure I will.
Oops. Not two pair at a time! Yikes!
First of all, thank you for sharing your knowledge and skills. ❤️🙏 I have been a knitter since I was in the womb (at least, that’s what it feels like), and I’ve been knitting socks forever. But never have I come across a nostepinner, which, I think as others have commented, is a game changer. I often use 2 strands together for thicker socks, so this is a game changer for me, too. I do, however, keep the specifics of each foot I knit for, but not in the organised way you do. I love your practical approach. I’ve learned so much in this short video. I knit cuff down, but can see SO many advantages to toe up. However, I struggle with circular needles for socks. Which is weird, because I knit other items on circs - in the round and flat - so maybe it’s just a ‘head thing’ for me. Anyway, I am really looking forward to Part 2. Take care, lovely K3n ❤️
Thank you so pleased you liked it ❤️
I can’t wait to part 2 to start knitting. The end has cut short. Have I missed anything. So excited…. Thank you K3n!
Hello no, I am sorry it was just bad editing on my part. I am getting better but still learning. Next episode on Friday ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales No worries, just excited and impatient. I have enough to shew on for now. I will check Judith magic cast on -Sock Matician.
I have been knitting since I was 10 and once, at a very young age about 11 or 12 I knitted mittens on 4 pins and I thought socks would be to tricky. This looks like something I would definitely be able to do and enjoy doing. Thank you so much k3n you are an inspiring teacher. Love the cardboard feet!! Big love from Scotland❤
Hello Margaret, I first started sock knitting on 4 pins and never loved it. I find this way much easier. ♥️
Perfect timing Kathryn, I’ve just started knitting my very first pair of socks! I’ve knitted for years but never socks! Learnt lots already, can’t wait for part 2!
That's great, I hope you find my mini series helpful ❤️
Finally someone who knits just like me! I have always been told I knit weird and should wind the yarn around my fingers. I have just made my first sock , looking forward to trying your way ❤
Yeay, we can start the Weird Knitters Club 😁❤️
Yay! I'm a "thrower" too! I also dont tension my working yarn, and I've never seen anyone knit like me before. How nice to be affirmed in 'knitting incorrectly' for 20 years 😂
I've just read a couple of other comments saying the same thing. Yay Weird Knitters Club!
I wonder where you get your yarn from? I used to buy premium local merino wool. But now that I've been slow stitching and using reclaimed cloth, I dont know how I put so much money into yarn. I would like to use reclaimed yarn but I'm not sure where to start.
I'm looking at getting a pair of angora goats in the summer time 🤭
There is a little wool shop run by a woman who spins and dyes her own wool in England near my friends house where I stay when I visit. She also sells commercial yarn, some from local, small businesses. I honestly can't remember where I got these little bits from, though I think they are pure wool and alpaca by the feel of them so they won't wear that well in socks. My biggest issue is that I find socks have to include some nylon or they wear out in no time. I think using thrifted sock reinforcement thread is maybe the most 'eco' thing to do but I do have quite a few balls of commercial sock yarn to use up which has a percentage of nylon in it. I also buy wool for fair isle etc from a mother daughter company here in France. I have unraveled thrifted sweaters to reknit in the past and it's quite a task. Getting your own goats or sheep would be a great way to go. 😂❤️
Thanks Kathryn, that's very helpful :) I won't feel bad about buying lovely local wool. I think it's the best way to go for me. I've bought some commercial merino sock yarn with a bit of nylon in it, and they're incomparably durable! Less stretch though so I will make my next pair a bit bigger :)
This has me excited again to knit socks. I have knit some over the years. I always manage to make some kind of mistake, always different each time 😂 Maybe this can be a new recipe for me.
From all the ways I have tried over the years, this for me is the easiest to remember, even if I haven't made any for a while. I hope you like it too. ❤️
Well, I'm extremely excited to know what a nostepinne is, because I have one upstairs in my Handwork room and had no idea what it was for. It must have come in with some purchase of vintage sewing notions. Thank you!!
Extreme novice to knitting here,so this was like a foreign language to me!🤣😅Not got it in me for this....but never say never!! Thank you for the video Katherine,I'm sure those skilled knitters and beginners,braver than me,will be starting their scrappy sock journey!!
Ah yes, the language of knitting and those strange hieroglyphics in knitting patterns 😂❤️
So clever.
Socks are my favorite thing to knit. I love Chiaogoo needles too. Great video
Thank you ❤️
Ooohhh, I’m novice in knitting 🧶 as in ‘never knitted a thing’. I’ll just watch and will attempt as I will study more into it.
(Right now, I’m sticking my pressed flowers on tea bags☺️). My brain is trying to understand the terms the terms you’re wonderfully explaining.
I’ll keep on watching.
🌸tess
Sounds like fun, the pressed flowers and tea bags. I hesitate in doing a 'how to knit ' video as my way, 'taught by my Aunty Lily after she had a stroke ' might not be the best way. 😂 Although, perhaps I should, just for that very reason. 😉❤️
try to knit something easy like a scarf maybe there’s a knitting group where you live 🧣
Thank you 😊
Thank-you great tute❤
So helpful! Thank you. 💖. I’ll now be able to make hanks into balls. 😊 and knit the two socks from the two ends. I’ve been looking forward to your tat toe up tutorial. 💖💖💖
I enjoyed watching her wind those little balls of yarn too. I have a yarn winder tool, but not sure it would do those smaller balls. This was fascinating to watch.🌷
Hope you enjoy the rest of the series 😁❤️
I am lost😊 however it is still interesting. Thank you for sharing
My pleasure, it's a lot if you are new to it. Pleased you find it interesting at least. 😁❤️
This is amazing! I’ve never heard this explained. I’ve tried socks, always top down, and never got anything wearable. So I’m on board for toe up. I now think I can tackle it wow I’m excited to get going
Thank you, I hope you enjoy the series ♥️
Absolutely my most favorite socks to wear! I am on my second pair making them from left over yarn....not too crazy about sewing in the ends though. Oh, I have about six cardboard feet for all my loved ones feet.
I agree about the ends, but now I do it as I go, half knitting them in and half sewing, then it's not too bad. I show it in the next video. ❤️
I like to wind yarn by hand but I use my thumb. Now I know how to use my nostepinne, I will practice.
The principle is the same but I think it's easier as you can turn the nostepinne through 360 degs, which you can't do with your thumb. 😁❤️
Enjoyed this video. Been years since I did any knitting, but thinking I should pick it back up! Never liked metal needles, they hurt my hand so went with bamboos.
Looking forward to the next video. Marion, Arkansas, just west of Memphis, Tennessee.
Hello there, I use bamboo or wooden needles often for knitting jumpers but found the really fine ones for sock knitting snap, I find these quite comfortable although they are metal. 😊
I’ve always wanted to learn how to knit socks. I love your way of teaching.
Thank you, hope you will give it a go 😊
I have always wanted to knit a pair of socks, watching this video has definitely made me think I could do it, thank you
My pleasure Jean, I am sure you can. ❤️
Brilliant! What a great explanation and why did I never think to do my gauge swatch like that? I have cut mine, so it looks like a scrappy hedgehog by the end and all the yarn is wasted. Looking forward to the rest of the series. 🧶
I do cut them if it's for a more complex project like a sweater and I am going to wash and block. I have saved them all though, with a vague thought of maybe stitching them together one day to make a Frankenblanket 😂❤️
My Mom tried to teach me how to knit but I never caught on to it. She did manage to teach me how to crochet. I’m still enjoying this video.
My daughter Lily is the same, likes to crochet but never took to knitting 😉❤️
Yay! Someone else who knits like me!! My mother tried to teach me how to wind the wool around my fingers…..something I could never manage ….she would give me scathing looks as she watched me knit MY WAY 😊 But hey I’ve been knitting this way for over 60 years……
There are a few of us judging by the comments so far. 😁 I am feeling very reassured. 😉♥️
I never heard of the nostepinne. I was taught by my grandma to wind balls of yarn around my thumb in a similar way.
Yes I have seen it done around the thumb too. ❤️
So, even when you speak a language I don’t understand (the one of Knitting), I still love watching your video. And the language, I will learn it one day. I just know it.🍀💖
😂 I remember my Mum, Aunties and Granny all knitting and talking in that strange language, and seeing the knitting patterns with the strange hieroglyphics 'k2tog' 'psso' 'ktbl' etc. it seemed magical to me that they could take two sticks and a ball of wool, read the magic symbols and produce a sweater. I just HAD to learn. I think I knitted even before I stitched. 😁❤️
Very interesting. I am not a knitter. My sister was an amazing knitter
I usually knit my socks on 4 bamboo needles. This looks like a game-changer for me… thank you for the inspiration.
I used to do that too and did quite happily for years, but now I prefer this way. I think it's personal preference and advantages to both. I like this because you can do two at a time and plus, you don't keep losing the spare needle down the side of the sofa 😂
Hallo Kathryn,
Leuk dat je deze filmpje hebt gemaakt🥰
Ik brei nu ongeveer 5 jaar sokken. Ik brei ze op mijn “Addisockenwunder “ een klein rondbreinaaldje. Ik vind dat naalje heel prettig breien.
Liefss Joke😘🙋🏻♀️
Hello Joke, I haven't tried that needle but I have used a 9" circular when I knit one at a time. It goes quick when you get the rhythm. ❤
I am not a knitter - too many good knitters have cringed at my leftie attempts. I do go from left needle onto right needle, so I do ask myself " what's the problem? "
But only yesterday, mooching around the charity shop, I picked up 'Knitting for Dummies', some yarn and needles, all for the princely sum of 50p. So, here's to something else I can do with my hands. ( I nearly said 'fingers crossed ' -but maybe not.
Sounds like a perfect find. 😁 I actually don't know how left handed folk knit, if there's a certain way. I must look it up. No lefties in my family unfortunately. Meanwhile, if knitting makes you happy, I think whichever way works for you is fine. ❤️
I am 55 years young and a leftie. Have made a few attempts at knitting through the years without success. Then I read that lefties may find Norwegian style knitting easier to pick up. Have been having some modest success following tutorials from Arne and Carlos' channel. Best of luck!
@@Ellie-yx8ni I never learned to knit properly as a child but was taught by my left handed friend when I was a good age. She had been taught to knit (right handed) by her crafty aunt who sounded similar to k3n’s Aunt Lily. She taught me that same cast on and to knit by throwing. It is really good to see some of us still knit that way.
Hello ❤from Beautiful British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦
My local Guild of Weavers does Advent scrappy socks . Small balls of suitable yarns are amassed and swapped so each participant has 24 to knit a stripe a day during December - hoping to achieve a pair by Xmas. Not my thing as nobody I know would want to wear socks made by me - me included!!
I have a nostepinne! Now I know what it is - thanks to you!! My son gave me it along with a few vintage spools and weaving tools! I do have a ball winder which is super simple but I’ll now have a go with the nostepinne.
Bit more research! It seems my nostepinne is not one! Although the same shape, mine has a hole through it which would have fitted over the pin in a shuttle and would have held the weft. It is therefore a “pirn” which you also mentioned.
Yes a pirn, some of mine also have a piece of metal around the top that acted as an electronic stop when the thread had run out. Love the sound of the community advent socks ❤️
I should give it a try too. I used to knit but there’s too many slow stitch projects waiting for me 😂❤
Know that feeling 😂 ❤️
Hi Kathryn 👋🏼,
In over under off. Thats about all i know about knitting lol. I can crochet though and i have done some rather large macrame pieces. But knitting, i should give it a try now though.
Well that's basically it in a nutshell 😂 ❤️
Thank you, Kathryn, for another informative video! I am an avid sock knitter, I must have made well over a hundred pairs, I've also made socks for hubby too, so much so that i dont even use a pattern anymore lol. I use either Chiaogoo or HiyaHiya needles, 2mm. I start off with Judy's Magic Cast On (I've never tried Nathan's version, I must have a look!) and finish with Jeni's Surprisingly Stretch Bind Off. The heels are just short row. I also throw my yarn, although when in knit Fair Isle I use both hands and continental. I've never knitted two at a time, but I really must try it....I suffer terribly from second sock syndrome!
Thank you again, I'm really looking forward to seeing the rest of them x
I am the same with fair isle. It's funny that we go back to throwing with only one colour. I try to make myself knit continental as it's a more economical movement but always revert to throwing. 😁❤️
Thank you Kathryn! Can you repeat the names of that wooden yarn winding tool? I bought one in a box of old thread and lace at a junk shop in Ottawa last summer. Looked very much like yours except it screwed apart and had some very rusty thin knitting needles inside. I thought it was just a holder and wondered why there were grooves all along it. Looking forward to the rest of the series. I am a beginner knitter and socks are my ultimate goal. Cheers!
Mine is a pirn, from the shuttle of a weaving loom but I use it as a nostepinne, sounds like that is what yours is, sounds wonderful with the needle storage. ♥️
Good morning beautiful Kathryn 🌹
Good morning 😁♥️
That’s the first time I’m watching a video and it seems I don’t understand English 😂! I’m not a knitter, my mother tried to teach me when I was a child, but as I didn’t like it, I never tried again. Never say never, who knows, but I think I would have to learn the words first 😂
Much love 💙🧡♥️🩷💜💚🤍🤎💛❤️🩶🩵
It's a whole other language. 😂 I just commented to Machteld about how I was so intrigued by the knitting patterns when I was a child, with the numbers and strange symbols, and how it seemed like magic that the women in my family could not only read them but take two sticks and some wool and produce a sweater 😁❤️
@@k3n.clothtales The same when I saw my mother knitting 😂
Yeah, I never measure or gauge. It’s not a waste of time but I won’t make fitting objects anymore. I knit book covers. I knit the cover, then make a book to fit the cover. lol. My bad. ❤
😂 that's a good way to get round it. You could also knit a jumper then find a person to fit it. 😉😁❤️
Hopefully Nanny won't see this video, it would ruin the surprise 😜
Hi Kathryn, I looked through the comments and didn't see this question, when you are casting on and testing your gauge, you're knitting with 2 threads from each end of the ball. I thought that each end was going to make a sock, so you make 2 socks at a time with one thread for each sock. Is that the case? Then wouldn't your gauge be wrong if you're testing it with double knitted threads? Or are we making one sock with 2 threads from each end of the ball? In that case, why not just use a fatter thread? Or should I just trust the process? Pardon me while I over-think it! 🙂
Hi Amy, I am making these socks thicker so it goes quicker and I am recommending that newby sock knitters do the same. I would have used double knit but I don't have any, however I have all these little balls of fingering weight so I am doubling it up to equal DK. Hope that's now clear. 😉 You will see when I cast on in Friday's video. I think I confused you showing my Mum's socks, with a single strand of fingering weight on smaller needles. ♥️
@@k3n.clothtales Ok, thank you, that makes sense. The yarn I have on hand is just a little thicker, so I'll stick w/ single strand. My #3 needle is the smallest I have too. I plan to work with that and see how it goes before I go hunting for new needles or yarn. Thanks for doing this, I'm looking forward to learning!
For your book: in danish = en nøstepind eller en vindebind.
Thank you Lisbeth ❤
Ok, I feel stupid, but why the business of moving the stitches to make stockinette rather than purling?
Hello, not stupid at all. 😉 Some people have different tension when they purl instead of knitting, when knitting in the round, you don't purl for stockinette so this way of knitting a swatch mimics knitting in the round. Hope that's clear 😉❤️
I had the same question. I've never seen this before, so thanks for asking!
@@amyspanne5629 hope it's clear now, I watched the video back and I didn't explain very clearly, sorry for that. ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Thank you. Yes, that clears it up.