I've knitted only one pair of toe up socks which I vowed to not do again. Until this video. I SO appreciate how you organize your videos. Thanks for your chart and formula for customizing the toe fit since this is where the toe up socks went downhill for me.
This is really informative! Knitting socks has always been a scary thought and I've never dared to venture into it. But you always do an amazing job of breaking everything down to the how's and why's. It takes away all the overwhelming aspects of knitting! Thank you!
Thanks for this great video. I am always amazed at how clear and concise your explanations are. Roxanne you are the best teacher ever ! Thank you so much for the work sheet it is great, especially when knitting for others.
You're a life saver ! I knit a lot of toe up socks but always the same pattern... this time I needed a wide toe on a sock with only 32 stitches, and I couldn't get it to work with the wedge toe I usually do. Not only does this look much more promising, but it was very easy as well ! I'm considering switching to round toes a lot more often. Also--I did this using the turkish cast on and dpns, and it worked just fine. Thank you for the tutorial !
Thank you, thank you!!! My family does NOT like the typical sock toe, so this is just what I need. Thanks for the excellent instructions and the chart !
Thank you so much. That was so informative and educational. I loved it. You made it easy to understand. Not all knit teachers are like that. They act like you should know all the knitting language. It's different but when it is explained like you did It's so much easier to grasp. Thanks again!!!!!
This was so helpful. Thank you. From the look of the 2 forms, I think one of them might solve the toe issues I have had with my socks. Always enjoy your videos and learn so much!
This was fascinating to me as a relatively new sock knitter! At this point, I have only been asking my gift recipients how the overall length is working for them without asking more specifically about the toe! Do you ever do anatomical toes? Could you do a video like this about those as well? Thanks Roxanne!
Clear, complete explanation of not only the how but the why. And excellent tips!! I’m going to have try the short round tour on my next pair. I have tiny toes!! Lol. Thanks so much!!! 🧶💕🧶
Thanks Roxanne. I am a long-term sock knitter and have only ever adjusted length of foot, or using smaller needles (I have small feet) and always using the same trusted pattern. This works fairly well but I realise now that my socks are a little on the baggy side. I am now in the process of adjusting this pattern to get a better fit with negative ease and so far I have done leg, heel and most of foot and I am happy with the fit I have created. However I have an extra long big toe, bigger than other toes and bigger in proportion to the rest of my foot so the big toe nail fairly quickly wears a hole. I have watched your reinforcing techniques and will use those too, but now I am thinking about whether a different toe design might also help. So thanks for this video and also your garter stitch toe video which also looks like it might be more stretchy where it needs to be stretchy without creating a lot of bagginess where my other toes are too short to fill. 😀
I love this video! Thank you. I’ve been using Cat Bordhi’s round toe which uses a multiple of 6. I can’t wait to try this method out and customize the length of the toes!
I have such short and stumpy toes on wide feet I always get a laugh out of average toe lenghth :D. My toes might be around 2.5 inches from the base of my little toe, but my feet only get narrower at the tip of my little toe, so really my sock toes only need to be around 1.5 inches long! (Ironically this means that commercial sock toes aren't really all that wrong for me, though with the stretchyness there it doesn't really matter.) Interestingly my sister-in-law ALSO has really short toes (and a high instep), so I'm getting the impression that this is more common that one might think!! (bias in statistics ;) ) When I learned to do socks I was taught a version of the round toe with varying plain rows, and I've always just adjusted the plain rows (read done many less) to get the fit I wanted. (My most recent experiment in sock toes was to do decreases in every row (after all we want to get a steady taper!!) and space them alternatingly across the round to get an even effect (6 rows with one decrease, 18 rows with 2 decreases and 4 rows with 3 drecreases) and it works! (But having to think about where to put the decreases is annoying!) :D
this is a wonderful thorough explanation thank you.. I guess my biggest issue is, I like to make socks as gifts so I know the person shoe size but nothing more. Which would be the better toe to knit?
The less information you have about the person's foot, the less likely you are to be able to make that choice. I take the opportunity to trace and measure the feet of any person I may be inclined to knit for so that when it comes time to knit for them, I can assess what would work best. Having a more complete set of measurements will help you get a better fit, otherwise, you have to just choose one, and then get feedback on the fit once the recipient has the socks, and then try to guess better the next time. Shoe size can give you an approximate foot length, but it doesn't tell you anything about their foot circumference, toe length, or if they have a high arch. Having said that, the larger the circumference of the foot, the more likely the short toe will work best.
Off Topic if I may…I’m sampling (swatching) 3 weights of Shetland I dyed then spun into singles for a class. The fiber revealed just how much I am over tensioning my front stitch leg. I knit pretty close to Norwegian style, as taught by my Lithuanian grand mother. ( hold yarn in left fist and over index finger). Any ideas of how I should approach learning to balance my stitches.?
If you're trying to create balanced stitches while knitting singles, that is unlikely to happen. This video will explain why ruclips.net/video/jRM_MqANiiA/видео.html
That depends on whether or not you, personally, are able to do a closed cast on like JMCO or the Turkish CO using dpns. Some knitters are able to manage that; others are not. Many dpn knitters will start their toe-up socks with a circular needle using the Magic Loop technique and then switch to their dpns after the first few rounds are established.
I've only used Turkish cast on for my toe up socks, but I find it worked very well on my dpns. I've not tried it with magic loop but judging by the my struggles I've had with my first pair of cuff down magic loop socks, I would get very tangled & frustrated! I start toe up socks with 3dpns - 2 holding the stitches & 1 working needle, & add the other 2 needles when I need to. I think doing all the increases with the stitches on 2 needles & adding in the others when I started to do the straight work up the foot would be easiest for me to remember how the round toe increases were going.
Roxanne you and this channel are the best resource for knitting!!
I've knitted only one pair of toe up socks which I vowed to not do again. Until this video. I SO appreciate how you organize your videos. Thanks for your chart and formula for customizing the toe fit since this is where the toe up socks went downhill for me.
This is really informative! Knitting socks has always been a scary thought and I've never dared to venture into it. But you always do an amazing job of breaking everything down to the how's and why's. It takes away all the overwhelming aspects of knitting! Thank you!
Love the concept of “reading” our knitting. Makes me a much more mindful knitter, really appreciating the work, not just doing it. 🧶
Thanks for this great video. I am always amazed at how clear and concise your explanations are. Roxanne you are the best teacher ever !
Thank you so much for the work sheet it is great, especially when knitting for others.
You're a life saver ! I knit a lot of toe up socks but always the same pattern... this time I needed a wide toe on a sock with only 32 stitches, and I couldn't get it to work with the wedge toe I usually do. Not only does this look much more promising, but it was very easy as well ! I'm considering switching to round toes a lot more often. Also--I did this using the turkish cast on and dpns, and it worked just fine. Thank you for the tutorial !
Thank you, thank you!!!
My family does NOT like the typical sock toe, so this is just what I need.
Thanks for the excellent instructions and the chart !
Thank you so much. That was so informative and educational. I loved it. You made it easy to understand. Not all knit teachers are like that. They act like you should know all the knitting language. It's different but when it is explained like you did It's so much easier to grasp. Thanks again!!!!!
I have not tried a toe-up sock yet, thank you for this demo!
This was so helpful. Thank you. From the look of the 2 forms, I think one of them might solve the toe issues I have had with my socks. Always enjoy your videos and learn so much!
Fascinating Roxanne! I will be watching this video a few times more! So filled with great technique! Thanks for sharing with us!🤗🤗
This was fascinating to me as a relatively new sock knitter! At this point, I have only been asking my gift recipients how the overall length is working for them without asking more specifically about the toe! Do you ever do anatomical toes? Could you do a video like this about those as well? Thanks Roxanne!
Clear, complete explanation of not only the how but the why. And excellent tips!! I’m going to have try the short round tour on my next pair. I have tiny toes!! Lol. Thanks so much!!! 🧶💕🧶
Thanks Roxanne. I am a long-term sock knitter and have only ever adjusted length of foot, or using smaller needles (I have small feet) and always using the same trusted pattern. This works fairly well but I realise now that my socks are a little on the baggy side. I am now in the process of adjusting this pattern to get a better fit with negative ease and so far I have done leg, heel and most of foot and I am happy with the fit I have created. However I have an extra long big toe, bigger than other toes and bigger in proportion to the rest of my foot so the big toe nail fairly quickly wears a hole. I have watched your reinforcing techniques and will use those too, but now I am thinking about whether a different toe design might also help. So thanks for this video and also your garter stitch toe video which also looks like it might be more stretchy where it needs to be stretchy without creating a lot of bagginess where my other toes are too short to fill. 😀
thank you for your charts, very useful xxx
wow that is brilliant never heard of that toe b4. will definitely try that out. Thankyou
Thank you for this. It's so fun to watch. I refuse to knit toe up socks on principle, but sometimes working backwards is an educational tool.
Thank you! I was watching your top down round toe video and trying to write everything in reverse.
That's essentially how I worked this version out, myself--by reversing my cuff down method! :-)
I love this video! Thank you. I’ve been using Cat Bordhi’s round toe which uses a multiple of 6. I can’t wait to try this method out and customize the length of the toes!
This is such a valuable lesson! Thanks for the file, it really helps. ♥️♥️
So clear and easy! Many thanks
This was awesome thank you.
Thank you, this is such valuable information.
Thank for this video it has helped me so much
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Reading the comments, looks like lots of knitters are going into toe up socks. To them I say, WELCOME.
That's very interesting
Love your tee shirt 👚
I have such short and stumpy toes on wide feet I always get a laugh out of average toe lenghth :D. My toes might be around 2.5 inches from the base of my little toe, but my feet only get narrower at the tip of my little toe, so really my sock toes only need to be around 1.5 inches long! (Ironically this means that commercial sock toes aren't really all that wrong for me, though with the stretchyness there it doesn't really matter.)
Interestingly my sister-in-law ALSO has really short toes (and a high instep), so I'm getting the impression that this is more common that one might think!! (bias in statistics ;) )
When I learned to do socks I was taught a version of the round toe with varying plain rows, and I've always just adjusted the plain rows (read done many less) to get the fit I wanted. (My most recent experiment in sock toes was to do decreases in every row (after all we want to get a steady taper!!) and space them alternatingly across the round to get an even effect (6 rows with one decrease, 18 rows with 2 decreases and 4 rows with 3 drecreases) and it works! (But having to think about where to put the decreases is annoying!) :D
this is a wonderful thorough explanation thank you.. I guess my biggest issue is, I like to make socks as gifts so I know the person shoe size but nothing more. Which would be the better toe to knit?
The less information you have about the person's foot, the less likely you are to be able to make that choice. I take the opportunity to trace and measure the feet of any person I may be inclined to knit for so that when it comes time to knit for them, I can assess what would work best. Having a more complete set of measurements will help you get a better fit, otherwise, you have to just choose one, and then get feedback on the fit once the recipient has the socks, and then try to guess better the next time. Shoe size can give you an approximate foot length, but it doesn't tell you anything about their foot circumference, toe length, or if they have a high arch. Having said that, the larger the circumference of the foot, the more likely the short toe will work best.
Off Topic if I may…I’m sampling (swatching) 3 weights of Shetland I dyed then spun into singles for a class. The fiber revealed just how much I am over tensioning my front stitch leg. I knit pretty close to Norwegian style, as taught by my Lithuanian grand mother. ( hold yarn in left fist and over index finger). Any ideas of how I should approach learning to balance my stitches.?
If you're trying to create balanced stitches while knitting singles, that is unlikely to happen. This video will explain why ruclips.net/video/jRM_MqANiiA/видео.html
@@RoxanneRichardson thank you!!
Can I do this on my dpns?
That depends on whether or not you, personally, are able to do a closed cast on like JMCO or the Turkish CO using dpns. Some knitters are able to manage that; others are not. Many dpn knitters will start their toe-up socks with a circular needle using the Magic Loop technique and then switch to their dpns after the first few rounds are established.
I've only used Turkish cast on for my toe up socks, but I find it worked very well on my dpns. I've not tried it with magic loop but judging by the my struggles I've had with my first pair of cuff down magic loop socks, I would get very tangled & frustrated! I start toe up socks with 3dpns - 2 holding the stitches & 1 working needle, & add the other 2 needles when I need to. I think doing all the increases with the stitches on 2 needles & adding in the others when I started to do the straight work up the foot would be easiest for me to remember how the round toe increases were going.
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