…compilation of tutorials
Isn’t this simply elegant? ;-)
I liked the knitting patterns from the (appr.) 1940’s, it’s such a different style from today.
Anyhow I wont knit none of them – I would never be able to finish one of them ;-))
What I found funny: there is an instruction for a bedsock (search for ‘Spiral Bedsocks’), exactly like the Sock without Heel I presented before.
Links:
1940’s Knitting Patterns (Vintage Purls – Women’s Patterns)
Here at unikatissima: Sock without Heel
I once read somewhere (but I don’t remember, where) that you can knit a sock without a heel if knitting a given pattern.
Therefore I tried it. I find the colours of the sock hideous, on the skein I still liked them, but here… ;-(
I won’t knit another sock.
Actually I should have it knitted higher up and it could have done with a cuff, but because I won’t wear it I restricted it to a Sneaker sock.
Anyhow, the thing about the given pattern is right: That’s how the sock looks like: flat ;-)
I began at the ‘cuff’ and at the toes I decremented by rule of thumb so not to get corners.
As for the pattern you alternately knit three, purl three stitches, every row the pattern is shifted one stitch.
The result is a kind of spiral rib-knit that makes the sock so elastic that it fits the foot all around very well.
Links:
The ‘pattern’
I enthused already about patchwork knitting, now I even found an instruction for socks in this technique – and what for socks!
In fact I’m not one for sock knitting but here I’m really tempted ;-)
Links:
Module Sock – click there onto the same photo that you see here above, behind lies the PDF file with the instruction
Instructions for knitting the modules:
Potholder knitting (English)
Potholder knitting (German)
Here at unikatissima: Patchwork Knitting
Actually I don’t exactly dig sock knitting, but the instructions on how to make Bayerische socks swept me off my feet – mostly because of the beautiful cables!
Maybe one day I’ll make wristwarmers from, then I don’t have to do the sock part ;-))
Not long ago my mother mentioned that she would like to have some slippers for Christmas because she has always cold feet.
When I read a very similar sentence at craftster in a thread, I knew immediately: that will be my Christmas gift.
The instruction is fine, on the photo you see my sketch for the sizes.
But I still have to buy the appropriate yarn.
P.S.: The specific point at the instruction is, that this is no ‘normal’ sock knitting, but it is about a sewn sock.
Links:
How to Knit Slippers
via A slipper that fits over my cast!