r/Sockknitting

I’m new to sock knitting. How do people carry their projects around without them falling off the needles?

i tend to knit with this colour in peak summer and it is my favourite way of dealing with summer. 🤭

This is Heritage Socks and I used the shorty heel tab for the cuff. It is for a friend and i hope this lace wool socks are comfortable in humid weather. 🤞

Pattern - https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/heritage-sock

Shorty Heel Tab -

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/shorty-heel-tab-socks

I just had to share my most recent pair!

The yarn was a gift from my sister, because she knows how much I love playing Stardew Valley. I’m just so happy with how this pair turned out!

It was my first time working a shadow wrap heel and I can’t believe I’ve put it off for so long!

🧶 Yarn: Must Stash Yarn’s Stardew Valley Colorway

🧶 Pattern: Soxploration shadow wrap heel by Denise DeSantis

Edit: Alternative yarn dyers that are LGBTQIA + Friendly: I've personally purchased and knit with yarn from both AlwaysBeKindYarn & OinkPigments. AlwaysBeKindYarn has several beautiful self striping colorways and I love their sparkly bases. Oink Pigments is not self striping but I'm obsessed with their Targhee sock base.

Spun Right Round tough sock in *Happy Hour* I love them 😼

I’m a beginner knitter and made socks as my 3rd project. They were so much fun I’m so happy with them. I think they came out a little big, I’m a uk size 3 and cast on 70 stitches, but I’m still so happy with them, they’re so lovely and warm. Pattern is the Winwick mum sockalong and yarn is West Yorkshire spinner purple emperor. I’m now working on a frill sock, I’ve definitely got the taste!

Hello! I've been knitting socks for a couple of months now and have recently learned the shadow wrap short row heel which is by far my favourite in terms of how easy it is to do and how nice the finished heel looks (no ridges from the decreases). I also prefer it to an afterthought heel as I can try the sock on as I go.

On vanilla socks, I've found the fit to be good. My socks are 72 stitches cast on, working the heel over half the stitches and I decrease an extra row to have a 13/10/13 split for a little extra room. I'm working on my first colourwork sock and the fit is a little more snug. I've been looking at options for improving this in future, and it seems that most of the gusset options would interrupt the colourwork pattern?

Would my best option be to work slightly more than half the stitches for the heel, to create more room without interrupting the pattern? Or is there another heel option I could use for colourwork socks that might fit better? My preference would still be to work the heel as I get to it, rather than an afterthought heel (for both ease of trying on and to avoid the inexplicable dread that comes with going back to it later).

Thanks in advance for any advice! I've been trying to find the solution on my own, but haven't convinced myself I've found the right thing so far.

Really happy with how these turned out! Technically the leg of one is ~5 rows longer because apparently I can't count, but I'm going to assume no one can tell when they're actually being worn!

I used the Adore colorway by HueLoco, and mostly used Summer Lee's I'm so Basic sock pattern. I did add a picot edge using the instructions from Carole's Picot Edge Socks!

I used the vanilla sock pattern from the Crazy Sock Lady and did my own colorwork pattern.

I met this sheep called Muppet and she deserved her own socks, so I made her a color work pattern (the brown spots were added later).

Feels good on the foot, not too snug and not too loose. The heel feels good as well.

Hey everybody!

I just finished this pair in left over bulky weight (?) yarn and I did win yarn chicken 💪😄

Granted, these were knit toe-up, so it's a very soft version of yarn chicken

You can see the marled yarn laying on top, which I was successfully squeezing out the heels. The two stripes on top are another colourway of the same yarn, as I wanted to extend the leg a bit.

Started binding off with what I call "half JSSBO" where I do the yarn over on the purl stitches where it will be less noticeable, but not on the knit stitches. I had about 1.0m to 1.2m left when I started that. After having bound off the first half (I always knit TAAT on ML, that's why there is halves), and noticed that what I had left of the darker yarn for the rest of the BO wouldn't be enough. I wasn't willing to tink back 1.5 rounds, so I switched to just a regular BO for the second half of both socks respectively, and YAY, I made it!

You can see how little was left after finishing the BO, as I still have to weave in the ends. So happy the yarn turned out to be juuuuuust enough 🥳

Absolutely loved making these for my baby! I did the GSR heel instead of the pattern and my preferred toe on the toddlers socks and it worked great. I did for a size 8 toddler shoe 44 stitches, increased 4 in the inc row to get a multiple of 12, on US0s

Drying in the sun, can't wait to try them on ☀️ Pattern is petal drop socks by Florence miller, I added the contrasting color and striped cuff. Yarn is linen tweed by Rico design and some regia for the contrast color. Wouldn't recommend the linen tweed since it was pretty uncomfortable to knit.

Obsessed with how pretty these are! A gift for my sister.

Pattern is Summer Lee's DK sock with a ribbed cuff added. Split the 48 stitches in half with 24 for the lace panel and 24 for the underside.

Yarn is Maker Maker's 8 ply Rainbow and Sprinkles - it's so soft and such a fun yarn to work with!

I finished the socks for my mother, and this is the result!

The splitting and grafting worked great and Mum loves them, and the fit is perfect! My Dad was very interested in the process and engineering of it all when I told him about what I did. Now I just need to find a pattern he'd like for when Fathers Day rolls around in September 🤔

My first pair of vanilla socks are finished and I'm so happy with them! Yarn is the avocado speckle sock set from Bellica Yarns that I got at a yarn festival, and the pattern is the Summer Lee Basic Sock No. 1 from her book the sock project!

I'm really happy but the heel flap seems really pointy and stretched - the rest of my sock fits really well and it feels comfortable, but any ideas to reduce the stretching? Maybe making my heel flap even longer or picking up more stitches? Any help would be really appreciated!! 😊

Next step - colourwork!!