One thing I really appreciate about your beginner tutorials is that you don’t just teach the pattern itself, but also skills that can be applied to any pattern, especially when it comes to adjusting patterns to your own measurements
I love that too! I am way too much of a beginner to add in all the math, so I probably will just follow a pattern as-is a few times just to get a feel for the process, but when I’m ready to level up to a higher quality sock that fits better, I know exactly where to go to learn to do that! I love his teaching style so much.
I'm really struggling. I can't make the two legs of the stitch appear when I pull down to make the double stitch. I've tried and tried ... I don't know what I'm doing wrong. 🤦🏼♀️
I am new to knitting and no matter how many tutorials I watch, I always come back to yours. They are by far the most detailed ones. I especially appreciate that you explain WHY you do the things you do, it makes it so much easier for me to understand how knitting actually works. Thank you so much for all the hard work you put into your tutorials.
I just finished my first sock! Now I’m restarting the video for sock #2 💞 thank you Norman!! This is my first ever knit project!! I just learned to knit less than a month ago with your Stockinette Stitch Tutorial and now I’ll be making socks this way for the next 50 years!! 💞
I don't think Norman has a video on this...correct me if I'm wrong, Norman. I found this super helpful. Doing 2 at a time socks. ruclips.net/video/UDfHGKtlkk4/видео.htmlsi=h_al10PCTQhhOVDy
I was wrong. Here is Norman's video on two at a time socks. This was a big game changer for me. ruclips.net/video/YC5w6i_Umqw/видео.htmlsi=Jiid95CqbrEUSuz0
oh my god, i've been knitting for almost a year now and mostly figuring thing out on my own. I have watched 20 min of your video and I've been mindblown so many times already!!!! how are there so many tricks and techniques I didn't know about!!!! thank you so much for these detailed videos Norman. from now on when I have a question I will always search on your blog to find the answer.♡
Socks,,especially toe up,,are one of my favorite things to knit~I was just thinking last night that I haven't made any in awhile~!! I'm now teaching my 9 year old grand daughter how to knit,and she's learning SO FAST~!! Her mother,,my daughter, also knits,in fact,she got me into it. Turns out,it's WONDERFUL for people with ADHD,,I find I stay focused for hours,knit EVERY day for 4 years now,and haven't gotten bored or lost interest. My daughter and grand daughter also have ADHD(surprise,surprise,,it runs in families!!) and knitting works better than any medication,,which none of us take. So,there may be 3 generations of Clarke women who have short attention spans,,but we're also 3 generations of knitters~!!🧡🧶🥢 I Love it~!!😄
love that story, Vivienna. And even though I don't have ADHD, knitting still helps me tremendously to gather my thoughts. It is such a wholesome hobby, isn't it? :)
@@NimbleNeedles It is !! The best part? My grand daughter no longer spends so much time hypnotized by her phone~! Instead of grabbing her phone as soon as she wakes up,she grabs her knitting~!!
Im a returner to knotting and trying to improve my knitting. I want to knit socks , love your tutorials simple, clear and concise. Also found your magic ring video v helpful as couldnt get my head round it, but i get it now
I followed your instructions and knitted a sock over the weekend. I really appreciate how positive and encouraging you are. Even my non-knitter adult daughter was watching your video with me and commenting about how pleasant it was to watch. You are the best!!
Yaaaay! Perfect timing! I've been wanting to try toe up socks and have been researching different types. I knew you were close to finishing these and was patiently waiting. These are perfect! Toe up, no picking up stitches for the heel... yes please! Thank you so much!!! 😃
After trying 5 other times with another video, this video actually got me started. I love the way that you tutorial this so well, that I made my husband buy your pattern for me, and I'm happily knitting my very first sock from it! You are awesome!
I finally finished my socks and I love love love them! This is the first pair of socks I have ever owned that actually fit me. Thank you again for explaining how to adjust for the variations in everyone's feet. =]
I have never been able to knit a sock that actually fit me before I followed your tutorial. I now have the most PERFECT fitting socks I could have ever dreamed of! I cannot thank you enough for the hours and hours of hard work you put into your tutorials,. Socks always seemed way too advanced for me to tackle but you broke them down so clearly that I am now confidently living my sock knitting dreams
Norman, I have been knitting socks for four years, so don’t watch too many sock knitting videos anymore, but you have become my go to Knitting resource for finding the best and neatest ways to do specific techniques so I watched this one to see if I would learn anything new. I am doing your KLL and KRL increases for the gussets in my current socks and they look beautiful. Thanks so much for all you do! Kathy
Whenever I have a pattern that makes no sense I google how to do something and invariably one of your videos is top of the results and saves me. You're my knitting hero!
Get the full pattern pdf with 12 pages here: www.patreon.com/posts/new-toe-up-sock-73669408 And make sure to comment anytime if you have a question Errata: At the end of the toe-box calculation I say that you need to cast-on 52 stitches. You always cast-on 16 stitches. What I mean is that you need 52 stitches at the end of the toebox.
happy to hear that. I was a bit hesistant at first if I should do it that way and not teach the textbook method but then I was like..what the heck..let's show them how I do it ^^
You are a very excellent instructor - and that is from on instructor (different topic) to another. Thank you. I've been wanting to tackle socks for a while now and your method makes the most sense. to me.
I’ve been knitting socks top down for a little while now, decided to retry toe up. This new to me SKL increase has such a better appearance! Thanks for such a great tutorial!
Norman you have a wonderful teaching gift and I’m thankful to have found you! I hope all your supporters help you continue this channel for years to come😊 ❤from Edmonton, Alberta
Thank you so much Norman for your tutorials!! They are so useful, so easy to follow and I love your enthusiasm! The chapter guide is great! Please keep on teaching us knitting :)
Thank you so much for this video! I started my first pair of socks, toe up, using magic loop sometime during the pandemic lockdown. When I got to the spot in pattern where I was supposed to start the gusset and heel, I became completely overwhelmed with the project and it became the bottom of my UFO pile…for three years! Thanks to this very easy to follow video, I am now finishing the cuffs and will be ready to bind off soon. I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it. I will have finished them thanks to your instruction. I am grateful for your time and expertise.😊
This is a wonderful tutorial! I'm only 20 minutes in, and I've learned two new skills. I've made 3.5 socks so far, and I don't especially like the "squared pointy" toe box that you get from increasing every other row from the start. Your technique of increasing every row until you've doubled your starting stitch count makes a much nicer toe box. Weaving in the new color is a great technique as well. Thank you SO much for all your videos!
Thank you so much Norman, for your wonderful detailed tutorials, all your shared precious tips, techniques and knowledge about yarns, needles, knitting both on RUclips and your website. Your videos were the inspiration to bring me to the new passion in life: Knitting. Wonderful work 👏🏼🙏💖🫶
Thank you so much for your tutorial ! I just finished my first pair of socks for my husband. He is super happy with them and I am super happy to have learned a new skill.
I watch Arne abd Carlos but Arne goes so fast I cannot follow. I found you last night and I'm so excited because I can actually learn from you. Thank you a million times over!!!❤❤
Wow, wow what a great explanation of reasons for the correct use of measurements in the gussett!!!! The BEST ever, thank you so much. I am now a new subscriber to your site🤩😍
Socks and sweaters have always eluded me. It's so easy to understand and your lighting makes it easy to see what your doing. I've never used the skl stitch before, but it's so much easier then any other stitch I've tried. Thank you for your hard work. ❤❤❤
I am simply mesmerized by how you work. Your style seems to be impeccable and you explain every step so clearly. This is by far the best knitting channel!
Not only your style but your products themselves are always so impeccable they look like machine made (in a good way) as in meticulous! I think your even knitting is the most refined on the web. Thanx so much for maintaining such a high standard of instruction and result!
Norman, you’re absolutely brilliant! Thank you so much for such comprehensive tutorials. They are easy to understand and provide so much support and insight for both beginners and knitters with some experience. I absolutely love this sock tutorial and can’t wait to try it out! 🙏🏻
Just found this video and am SO thankful for you and your teaching style. I have previously made socks cuff down, but I think I will continue to use your method from now on.
Thank you so much for that video - I finally get how much it is easier than I thought it would be to knit socks. I just enjoy the way you are explaining each part of it. I replay parts for putting my numbers down to be able to knit with medium, kd, or fingering. I really appreciate and enjoying your tutorials.
Thank you soooo much. You answered the question I've had for years, the bigger calf gusset!❤ thank you. I'm watching from Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦. Love your tutorials.
THIS. This is the video I've been needing for socks! Mostly for the calf gusset. I have meaty calves and have a hard time figuring some of these things out. You have given me the info I've been looking for and can't wait to use this video for socks.
I'm very excited to see such thorough tutorial from my favorite knitting channel! I've been a little timid to try a sock but I'm confident after this video I'll be able to make a nice pair of socks
Thank you so much for taking the time to make such a detailed video, i have just finished one sock. It fits so perfectly and is super comfortable. Onto the next one!
This is a really great tutorial. I learned a lot watching this. I love your videos because you explain things in detail with good video close ups and you have a lot of knowledge about knitting.
Norman, I'm not a beginner sock knitter, but fit issues are no joke! I'm still learning how to fit my socks and thus got lots of practice with the parts of the sock top down. Toe up, I need to make more.
Hey there Norman. You are so thoughtful and motivating for a beginning like me. I just recently started top down and oh vey how the heel portion tested my patience. So I am enjoying this.
it sure can feel that way. But believe in the process and you also need to do it once or twice. I don't even notice that section anymore and can knit a heel in my sleep, lol.
Maravilloso tutorial!!!! Gracias!!!! He tejido calcetines varias veces pero siempre con patrón. Ahora he entendido perfectamente como se construyen y como adaptarlos a diferentes grosores de lana, agujas y medidas personales. Para mi sorpresa, el idioma no ha sido ningún problema!!!! Muchísimas gracias otra vez. Saludos desde Granada, España.
oh ja, ich stricke meine Socken schon seit mehr als 10 Jahren nur noch gleichzeitig auf einer Rundstricknadel damit sie wirklich gleich groß werden :-D Ich hoffe auch auf ein Video in dem Norman erklärt wie er das macht ☺
You totally granted my wish! Thank you enormously xXx Ideal tutorial for first attempt at knitting socks. You are a wonderful, thorough, absolutely adorable teacher ❤
Very interesting! I just finished knitting my first toe-up socks the other day, but I used a fleegle heel. Will definitely try this heel construction for my next pair :)
OMGosh you have turned teaching into an art form and a match project!!! thanx so much. I am a right brainer so all this is VERY intimidating to me, and yet I need it. Here's why. I knit following patterns of course but always tweak everything to make it more fitting or aesthetic. I combine patterns to get less of a wedge toe or shorter heel or some other feature and take notes. My problem is I think I am going to remember what I did but when I go back to read the notes i often have to guess at ??? what I actually did, even by the next day!!! After at least 50 pair of socks over 3 years, I don't think 2 of them ever came out the same, just similar!!! Sometimes subtle and sometimes glaring differences. Watching this is overwhelming to my "wing-it" style but I want the exacting results you demo, so I am going to have to take it one minute at a time. Most confusing to me is the customizing of length and do I have a high arch or no? I usually get a strain or a pleat of fabric at arch so what indicates too long or too short? I don't know what I am doing right or wrong. You have turned this into a science almost, and I am eager to plod along until I get it right instead of dealing with the disappointment of having socks that look different from each other, not to others as much as to my meticulous self. Your workmanship is predictable and enviable. Sorry for the long post but maybe others can benefit from this dilemma.
@@NimbleNeedles norman I don't know what you mean I searched all comments and only found once, did I maybe copy onto another of your instructs? Asking specifically about have a pleat of fabric across instep does that mean too much fabric or too little? I appreciate your time and understand if you cannot comment but just trying again.
you're my favorite knitter to follow along with. can you make a two at a time magic loop sock knitting video? there are other RUclipsrs who have these videos but your socks are much prettier than the pattern that I purchased with the accompanying video from another designer. your projects are always aesthetically pleasing to my eye.
Hi from Brazil!!! Thank you for your videos! They are sooooo good!!! I was looking for a video about how to join a new color in a round (in you channel) and I saw this sock tutorial and found it! Thank you so much! All the best and again, thank you for your videos!!!! 😊
Thank you so much for this video! You are my favorite knitting instructor. This type of heal is my favorite but I always struggle. This is going to be my go-to technique.
This is the first video I've viewed on your channel and I'm thrilled to have learned some valuable techniques just 20 minutes into it! I am looking forward to trying what you are demonstrating as I have a wide toe box and high instep, and prefer toe-up socks. Thank you lots - this is exciting!
I wish I could give you 👍👍👍. One 👍 just doesn't tell you how much I appreciate you and your love for knitting. I love your tutorials 😍. Fantastic work 👏
out just in time for me to be done with my first pair of socks! i did those cuff down and as soon as you said you were putting a video out i said i need to try toe up.
Hi Norman! Thank you for your wonderful video tutorials. I have followed other sock patterns with hit or miss results. I just finished my first pair following you and am very happy with the results. I hope to make most of our socks from now on. I spin and can use this method for making socks from my handspun yarn as well, thank you!!!
I have saved this video as I plan to make these. Just find your videos slightly confusing sometimes but only co you use the continental knitting method and I of course use the UK method. However instructions are still applicable to any method so thank you Norman!! Have a great day!!! 👍 x
ah...sorry for that Jan. But as you might understand, recording such a long video twice is a little bit too much effort. Besides, my bumbling attempts at knitting English style might be even more confusing, haha!
@@NimbleNeedles AMEN! I do continental for 50 years but this is still difficult for me to follow, you may not realize your exquisite level of continental expertise Norman. You are definitely in your groove in Continental.
Hi Norman, I hope you can read this message ,(you must get many per day) first of all many thanks for the absolute great quality of tutorials, even for experience knitters your atention to details is very useful. Just one Question: Why don't you include a negative ease on the stitches cast-on calculation? What is your opinion on that regard? Have a great day.
Just to make sure. I think negative ease is just such a fishy term nobody really can capture in absolutes. So I stopped using it. It's just confusing and inaccurate. How far do you stretch a swatch when blocking and how much of the stretch left is negative ease? Never found an answer to that.
I'm very excited to knit my first pair of socks! Such an easy to understand video will make it fun. I've been waiting to get the self-striping yarn in the mail from Denmark to a small town in the Midwest US. Maybe it will arrive today... Thank you so much for this excellent video. I will look into the Patreon too.
I wasn't interested in changing colors. I was planning on skipping it. But holy crap that is such a nice technique! And you explained it so well! Now I have to! 😂
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One thing I really appreciate about your beginner tutorials is that you don’t just teach the pattern itself, but also skills that can be applied to any pattern, especially when it comes to adjusting patterns to your own measurements
Definitely...it can be difficult to incorporate all the different levels but I certainly try my best!
I love that too! I am way too much of a beginner to add in all the math, so I probably will just follow a pattern as-is a few times just to get a feel for the process, but when I’m ready to level up to a higher quality sock that fits better, I know exactly where to go to learn to do that! I love his teaching style so much.
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@@NimbleNeedles❤
I'm really struggling. I can't make the two legs of the stitch appear when I pull down to make the double stitch. I've tried and tried ... I don't know what I'm doing wrong. 🤦🏼♀️
I am new to knitting and no matter how many tutorials I watch, I always come back to yours. They are by far the most detailed ones. I especially appreciate that you explain WHY you do the things you do, it makes it so much easier for me to understand how knitting actually works. Thank you so much for all the hard work you put into your tutorials.
I totally agree with you!!
Me encanta tu forma de enseñar. Soy hispana, no comprendo todas las instrucciones. Tendrías tus patrones en Español?
@@silvianaveirasvilar6851v@
I've been knitting for 40 years but every time I watch your videos there is something new for me
Norman you are the best for knitting and learning! Thank you for all of your hard work in making all of your videos!
happy to hear you appreciate all the hard work that goes into my tutorials
I just finished my first sock! Now I’m restarting the video for sock #2 💞 thank you Norman!! This is my first ever knit project!! I just learned to knit less than a month ago with your Stockinette Stitch Tutorial and now I’ll be making socks this way for the next 50 years!! 💞
I don't think Norman has a video on this...correct me if I'm wrong, Norman. I found this super helpful. Doing 2 at a time socks. ruclips.net/video/UDfHGKtlkk4/видео.htmlsi=h_al10PCTQhhOVDy
I was wrong. Here is Norman's video on two at a time socks. This was a big game changer for me.
ruclips.net/video/YC5w6i_Umqw/видео.htmlsi=Jiid95CqbrEUSuz0
I cannot even imagine how much effort is put to make this kind of video thank you so much
well...actually me neither, lol. But probably around 40 hours.
The amount of attention to detail is why i love your channel so much ❤ this deep freeze has me wantting to knit some socks 😅
Go ahead!! 🥰
oh my god, i've been knitting for almost a year now and mostly figuring thing out on my own. I have watched 20 min of your video and I've been mindblown so many times already!!!! how are there so many tricks and techniques I didn't know about!!!! thank you so much for these detailed videos Norman. from now on when I have a question I will always search on your blog to find the answer.♡
and if you don't, you can always drop a question here int eh comments :)
Socks,,especially toe up,,are one of my favorite things to knit~I was just thinking last night that I haven't made any in awhile~!!
I'm now teaching my 9 year old grand daughter how to knit,and she's learning SO FAST~!! Her mother,,my daughter, also knits,in fact,she got me into it. Turns out,it's WONDERFUL for people with ADHD,,I find I stay focused for hours,knit EVERY day for 4 years now,and haven't gotten bored or lost interest. My daughter and grand daughter also have ADHD(surprise,surprise,,it runs in families!!) and knitting works better than any medication,,which none of us take.
So,there may be 3 generations of Clarke women who have short attention spans,,but we're also 3 generations of knitters~!!🧡🧶🥢 I Love it~!!😄
love that story, Vivienna. And even though I don't have ADHD, knitting still helps me tremendously to gather my thoughts. It is such a wholesome hobby, isn't it? :)
@@NimbleNeedles It is !! The best part? My grand daughter no longer spends so much time hypnotized by her phone~! Instead of grabbing her phone as soon as she wakes up,she grabs her knitting~!!
Thank you so much for this pattern, you’re such a good teacher !! So pleased to be your silent pupil..!!🫢
I'm happy to have you here
The SKL is a revelation to me! My toe caps are perfect now. Thank you!!! 🙏🏻🤩🧦
It's been 30 years since I made socks, and my goodness this was so helpful!
Dear Norman,
I benefited a lot from your videos. You are a very good person and a very good teacher. I'm so glad to have you. Endless thanks😘
Im a returner to knotting and trying to improve my knitting. I want to knit socks , love your tutorials simple, clear and concise. Also found your magic ring video v helpful as couldnt get my head round it, but i get it now
I followed your instructions and knitted a sock over the weekend. I really appreciate how positive and encouraging you are. Even my non-knitter adult daughter was watching your video with me and commenting about how pleasant it was to watch. You are the best!!
oh wow! thank you for sharing this lovely feedback with me
Yaaaay! Perfect timing! I've been wanting to try toe up socks and have been researching different types. I knew you were close to finishing these and was patiently waiting. These are perfect! Toe up, no picking up stitches for the heel... yes please! Thank you so much!!! 😃
awesome! glad this was what you envisioned
Beautiful instructions, not too chatty, useful commentary and "secrets' of the trade. Keep up the good work, you are fantastic!
After trying 5 other times with another video, this video actually got me started. I love the way that you tutorial this so well, that I made my husband buy your pattern for me, and I'm happily knitting my very first sock from it! You are awesome!
Great to hear my video made a difference
I finally finished my socks and I love love love them! This is the first pair of socks I have ever owned that actually fit me. Thank you again for explaining how to adjust for the variations in everyone's feet. =]
Great job!
I have never been able to knit a sock that actually fit me before I followed your tutorial. I now have the most PERFECT fitting socks I could have ever dreamed of! I cannot thank you enough for the hours and hours of hard work you put into your tutorials,. Socks always seemed way too advanced for me to tackle but you broke them down so clearly that I am now confidently living my sock knitting dreams
You are so welcome!
Love your sock knitting videos. Would LOVE a two at a time toe up socks video
Agree! Would love to see that!
Norman, I have been knitting socks for four years, so don’t watch too many sock knitting videos anymore, but you have become my go to Knitting resource for finding the best and neatest ways to do specific techniques so I watched this one to see if I would learn anything new. I am doing your KLL and KRL increases for the gussets in my current socks and they look beautiful. Thanks so much for all you do!
Kathy
Thank you so much for the detailed instructions! Just what I've been looking for and once again, you come through for your viewers! 👍😊
Thank you Norman! So much effort and such a well produced video! 👍😍
happy to hear you appreciate my work!
Whenever I have a pattern that makes no sense I google how to do something and invariably one of your videos is top of the results and saves me. You're my knitting hero!
Thank you, Norman! You are the reason I’m knitting socks like crazy… I can’t stop. 😁 You’re a very good teacher. 🤗
i am knitting socks like crazy for xmas right now as well :D
Get the full pattern pdf with 12 pages here: www.patreon.com/posts/new-toe-up-sock-73669408
And make sure to comment anytime if you have a question
Errata: At the end of the toe-box calculation I say that you need to cast-on 52 stitches. You always cast-on 16 stitches. What I mean is that you need 52 stitches at the end of the toebox.
I love how you start the toes! That’s brilliant, and so much easier than other methods I have seen.
happy to hear that. I was a bit hesistant at first if I should do it that way and not teach the textbook method but then I was like..what the heck..let's show them how I do it ^^
You are a very excellent instructor - and that is from on instructor (different topic) to another. Thank you. I've been wanting to tackle socks for a while now and your method makes the most sense. to me.
I am amazed at the quality of this channel and your work! You are the ultimate knitting guru. I am deeply grateful for all of the content!❤️
I’ve been knitting socks top down for a little while now, decided to retry toe up. This new to me SKL increase has such a better appearance! Thanks for such a great tutorial!
I really appreciate this thorough tutorial soooooo much! I love your teaching style!
Norman you have a wonderful teaching gift and I’m thankful to have found you! I hope all your supporters help you continue this channel for years to come😊
❤from Edmonton, Alberta
I sure hope so as well. I really kind of love the community we built here and would thoroughly miss it!
Thank you so much, I've just finished my daughter 's socks🎉! Took me a month but Im happy, you are an absolutely genius teacher 😊
Thank you so much Norman for your tutorials!! They are so useful, so easy to follow and I love your enthusiasm! The chapter guide is great! Please keep on teaching us knitting :)
Thank you so much for this video! I started my first pair of socks, toe up, using magic loop sometime during the pandemic lockdown. When I got to the spot in pattern where I was supposed to start the gusset and heel, I became completely overwhelmed with the project and it became the bottom of my UFO pile…for three years! Thanks to this very easy to follow video, I am now finishing the cuffs and will be ready to bind off soon. I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it. I will have finished them thanks to your instruction. I am grateful for your time and expertise.😊
aww...very happy to hear that. now onwards to the second one and then wear it with pride!
Thank you for making projects like this feel achievable! I’m excited to give it a try!
This is a wonderful tutorial! I'm only 20 minutes in, and I've learned two new skills. I've made 3.5 socks so far, and I don't especially like the "squared pointy" toe box that you get from increasing every other row from the start. Your technique of increasing every row until you've doubled your starting stitch count makes a much nicer toe box. Weaving in the new color is a great technique as well. Thank you SO much for all your videos!
I've knitted four socks with the help of this tutorial and they all turned out great! Thank you for this video!
oh wow! you are a qucik knitter. This video is barely two months old! wow
Thank you so much Norman, for your wonderful detailed tutorials, all your shared precious tips, techniques and knowledge about yarns, needles, knitting both on RUclips and your website. Your videos were the inspiration to bring me to the new passion in life: Knitting. Wonderful work 👏🏼🙏💖🫶
Aww..thank you for your kind words ❤️🧶
*literally stopped doing everything to try it*
amazing, thank you so much!!!
My first socks ever and it’s perfect! Thank you very much. You are a wonderful teacher. I have learned so much from you.
Thank you so much for your tutorial ! I just finished my first pair of socks for my husband. He is super happy with them and I am super happy to have learned a new skill.
Great job!
I watch Arne abd Carlos but Arne goes so fast I cannot follow. I found you last night and I'm so excited because I can actually learn from you. Thank you a million times over!!!❤❤
Thanks! I appreciate the time and effort that you put in your tutorials you make it very easy to learn :)
very happy to hear my work is appreciated, Romi. thank you so much for your support!
Wow, wow what a great explanation of reasons for the correct use of measurements in the gussett!!!! The BEST ever, thank you so much. I am now a new subscriber to your site🤩😍
Welcome to my channel ❤️
Socks and sweaters have always eluded me. It's so easy to understand and your lighting makes it easy to see what your doing. I've never used the skl stitch before, but it's so much easier then any other stitch I've tried. Thank you for your hard work. ❤❤❤
Thank you socks are not in the plan right now, but the tips work for many different projects! I like the weave-in add yarn methods.
i always come back to your videos, because I just love your thorough aproach of teaching how to knit! thank you!
I am simply mesmerized by how you work. Your style seems to be impeccable and you explain every step so clearly. This is by far the best knitting channel!
Not only your style but your products themselves are always so impeccable they look like machine made (in a good way) as in meticulous! I think your even knitting is the most refined on the web. Thanx so much for maintaining such a high standard of instruction and result!
Thanks so much for all the little tricks that you demonstrate. Keep this up. I find your tutorials the easiest but most comprehensive.
Norman, you’re absolutely brilliant! Thank you so much for such comprehensive tutorials. They are easy to understand and provide so much support and insight for both beginners and knitters with some experience. I absolutely love this sock tutorial and can’t wait to try it out! 🙏🏻
Just found this video and am SO thankful for you and your teaching style. I have previously made socks cuff down, but I think I will continue to use your method from now on.
Thank you so much for that video - I finally get how much it is easier than I thought it would be to knit socks. I just enjoy the way you are explaining each part of it. I replay parts for putting my numbers down to be able to knit with medium, kd, or fingering. I really appreciate and enjoying your tutorials.
I feel like I’m no overstepping when i say - i love you
Thank you soooo much. You answered the question I've had for years, the bigger calf gusset!❤ thank you. I'm watching from Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦. Love your tutorials.
Thank you Norman! Have been wanting this knowledge for a very long time!🙋♀️🏘👍⛄
THIS. This is the video I've been needing for socks! Mostly for the calf gusset. I have meaty calves and have a hard time figuring some of these things out. You have given me the info I've been looking for and can't wait to use this video for socks.
I was going ask about a knit along. So glad you doing it
You are a detailed teacher, great for me
Thank you!
I'm very excited to see such thorough tutorial from my favorite knitting channel! I've been a little timid to try a sock but I'm confident after this video I'll be able to make a nice pair of socks
I sure hope you can. And hey..you can always come back and ask your questions here, right?
Love Norman! He explains things so simply and understandably. Keep it up Norman!
Thank you so much for taking the time to make such a detailed video, i have just finished one sock. It fits so perfectly and is super comfortable. Onto the next one!
You are so welcome!
This is a really great tutorial. I learned a lot watching this. I love your videos because you explain things in detail with good video close ups and you have a lot of knowledge about knitting.
Your teaching style is so helpful. Thank you for these videos. I am feeling more confident in the sock project I am planning.
I have learned so much with this tutorial, I can't thank you enough.
Thank you. As a beginner I find your videos so easy to understand and follow. My first sock is already well underway and looking promising.
Wonderful!
A very beautiful sock. We expected a lovely project and you delivered. Thanks, Norman. ❤
The best way to knit socks! Thank you very much for the helpful video!
I like to knit toe up so I appreciate your video to remind me what I did last winter. Your tutorials are excellent thank you so much.
Thank you for your tutorials. I could listen to you all day!
Wow, thank you!
Norman, I'm not a beginner sock knitter, but fit issues are no joke! I'm still learning how to fit my socks and thus got lots of practice with the parts of the sock top down. Toe up, I need to make more.
Hey there Norman. You are so thoughtful and motivating for a beginning like me. I just recently started top down and oh vey how the heel portion tested my patience. So I am enjoying this.
it sure can feel that way. But believe in the process and you also need to do it once or twice. I don't even notice that section anymore and can knit a heel in my sleep, lol.
Maravilloso tutorial!!!! Gracias!!!! He tejido calcetines varias veces pero siempre con patrón. Ahora he entendido perfectamente como se construyen y como adaptarlos a diferentes grosores de lana, agujas y medidas personales. Para mi sorpresa, el idioma no ha sido ningún problema!!!! Muchísimas gracias otra vez. Saludos desde Granada, España.
Loved this video! Super easy to understand. Yes, please show the two at a time version as well!
oh ja, ich stricke meine Socken schon seit mehr als 10 Jahren nur noch gleichzeitig auf einer Rundstricknadel damit sie wirklich gleich groß werden :-D Ich hoffe auch auf ein Video in dem Norman erklärt wie er das macht ☺
Oohhhh. I love you and your way of explaining!!! You are a treasure.
Thank you for another excellent and practical video. The SKL is just what I need!
Happy to hear that 😎
The Best lessson!! Thanks!
You totally granted my wish! Thank you enormously xXx
Ideal tutorial for first attempt at knitting socks. You are a wonderful, thorough, absolutely adorable teacher ❤
Best tutorial ever. Thank you so much for your effort.
Thank you so much! I love your beginning 👍😍 of the sock .I made just one beautiful Sock , second cast on this evening
Thank you I love toe up socks I like your ideas
Very interesting! I just finished knitting my first toe-up socks the other day, but I used a fleegle heel. Will definitely try this heel construction for my next pair :)
yeah, there are many other heels. I thought I'd start with a strandard heel for this beginner pattern (and I actually like this one the most!)
This is an excellent tutorial so glad i found it. Wish i could Knit the continental way it looks so smooth. 🌻
one of the best tutorials by far!
OMGosh you have turned teaching into an art form and a match project!!! thanx so much. I am a right brainer so all this is VERY intimidating to me, and yet I need it. Here's why. I knit following patterns of course but always tweak everything to make it more fitting or aesthetic. I combine patterns to get less of a wedge toe or shorter heel or some other feature and take notes. My problem is I think I am going to remember what I did but when I go back to read the notes i often have to guess at ??? what I actually did, even by the next day!!! After at least 50 pair of socks over 3 years, I don't think 2 of them ever came out the same, just similar!!! Sometimes subtle and sometimes glaring differences. Watching this is overwhelming to my "wing-it" style but I want the exacting results you demo, so I am going to have to take it one minute at a time. Most confusing to me is the customizing of length and do I have a high arch or no? I usually get a strain or a pleat of fabric at arch so what indicates too long or too short? I don't know what I am doing right or wrong. You have turned this into a science almost, and I am eager to plod along until I get it right instead of dealing with the disappointment of having socks that look different from each other, not to others as much as to my meticulous self. Your workmanship is predictable and enviable. Sorry for the long post but maybe others can benefit from this dilemma.
hm..okay..this comment seems to have been a duplicate.
@@NimbleNeedles norman I don't know what you mean I searched all comments and only found once, did I maybe copy onto another of your instructs? Asking specifically about have a pleat of fabric across instep does that mean too much fabric or too little? I appreciate your time and understand if you cannot comment but just trying again.
@@ooohlaa13 if I see a duplicate I always delete the second one ;-) so, that's why you couldn't find it.
you're my favorite knitter to follow along with. can you make a two at a time magic loop sock knitting video? there are other RUclipsrs who have these videos but your socks are much prettier than the pattern that I purchased with the accompanying video from another designer. your projects are always aesthetically pleasing to my eye.
hm..one day in the future. But not anytime soon. these tutorials take a loooot of time and effort (40hours+) and it's quite exhausting.
Wow this is a really cool pattern
I do hope it is!
Hi from Brazil!!! Thank you for your videos! They are sooooo good!!!
I was looking for a video about how to join a new color in a round (in you channel) and I saw this sock tutorial and found it!
Thank you so much!
All the best and again, thank you for your videos!!!! 😊
Thank you so much for this video! You are my favorite knitting instructor. This type of heal is my favorite but I always struggle. This is going to be my go-to technique.
yeah, heels can be tricky but glad I was able to shed some light on it!
This is the first video I've viewed on your channel and I'm thrilled to have learned some valuable techniques just 20 minutes into it! I am looking forward to trying what you are demonstrating as I have a wide toe box and high instep, and prefer toe-up socks. Thank you lots - this is exciting!
awesome! feel free to come back any time if you have any questions.
I wish I could give you 👍👍👍. One 👍 just doesn't tell you how much I appreciate you and your love for knitting. I love your tutorials 😍. Fantastic work 👏
heh.. a nice comment is also very much appreciated
out just in time for me to be done with my first pair of socks! i did those cuff down and as soon as you said you were putting a video out i said i need to try toe up.
awesome. try both and see what you like most!
Hi Norman! Thank you for your wonderful video tutorials. I have followed other sock patterns with hit or miss results. I just finished my first pair following you and am very happy with the results. I hope to make most of our socks from now on. I spin and can use this method for making socks from my handspun yarn as well, thank you!!!
Wonderful!
Your instruction is extremely helpful. Thank you.
I have saved this video as I plan to make these. Just find your videos slightly confusing sometimes but only co you use the continental knitting method and I of course use the UK method. However instructions are still applicable to any method so thank you Norman!! Have a great day!!! 👍 x
ah...sorry for that Jan. But as you might understand, recording such a long video twice is a little bit too much effort. Besides, my bumbling attempts at knitting English style might be even more confusing, haha!
@@NimbleNeedles AMEN! I do continental for 50 years but this is still difficult for me to follow, you may not realize your exquisite level of continental expertise Norman. You are definitely in your groove in Continental.
Hi Norman, I hope you can read this message ,(you must get many per day) first of all many thanks for the absolute great quality of tutorials, even for experience knitters your atention to details is very useful. Just one Question: Why don't you include a negative ease on the stitches cast-on calculation? What is your opinion on that regard? Have a great day.
Just to make sure. I think negative ease is just such a fishy term nobody really can capture in absolutes. So I stopped using it. It's just confusing and inaccurate. How far do you stretch a swatch when blocking and how much of the stretch left is negative ease? Never found an answer to that.
I've tried toe up socks but your way to do the heal is different and I can't wait to try it. I enjoy your videos very much.
Thank you so much, I love your tutorials, they are informative and lovely
I'm very excited to knit my first pair of socks! Such an easy to understand video will make it fun. I've been waiting to get the self-striping yarn in the mail from Denmark to a small town in the Midwest US. Maybe it will arrive today... Thank you so much for this excellent video. I will look into the Patreon too.
I wasn't interested in changing colors. I was planning on skipping it. But holy crap that is such a nice technique! And you explained it so well! Now I have to! 😂