All About Sock Knitting | Tips, Patterns, and Needles | WIPs and FOs | Knitting Podcast Episode 3

[@Serenity-fu8xz]

DPN’s all the way❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@hattyknitsalong]

🙌🙌🙌

[@brazosfiberworks]

Love all your socks! I also love knitting the Stephen west socks for learning new techniques.

[@debbyflowers1488]

Hi from Minnesota, newish knitter (less than one year). Working on 2 pairs of socks and a sweater now. I love using 9" circulars after starting with magic loop.

[@cindyh112]

Hello Hatty. I hadn’t thought about making socks because they look so difficult. I enjoyed your explanation about how you make them and seeing the variety of patterns that you used. Someday I may give it a try. Currently I’m waiting for my needles to be delivered and I’m hoping that I can start on the Be Brave Shawl. Have a great week 😊

[@hattyknitsalong]

Sock knitting definitely looks more difficult than it is. I hope you try it some time.

[@sharonimler857]

I think you are doing as great job on your podcast. Very clear voice and nice content.

[@janetjroberson2581]

Hello from Swansea, Illinois. This is my first time seeing your podcast and I subscribed to it.❤❤❤ My very first pair of socks was knitted on DPN’s now I knit my socks on 9” circular needles which is easier for me. I do use DPN’s for the heel flap and the toe decreases.I have tried to use magic loop but couldn’t get the hang of it. I am knitting a pair of socks again and crocheting a baby blanket, at present then I will start knitting a pullover.

[@hattyknitsalong]

Thanks for watching and subscribing! Do you cast on socks with 9” circulars or dpns? I always feel like 9” stretch my sock out a lot in the beginning so I like to cast on to dpns.

[@LilleyKnits]

This was perfect timing! I’m trying to knit my own first pair of fingering weight socks following Summer Lee’s vanilla sock pattern. This is my 5th or 6th attempt 😅 I have a really hard time adjusting to the tiny needles but am determined! The yarn is from Ritual Dyes and I’m hoping to submit it to the Sacred Sheep MAL. Great video! I love how the cardigan is turning out!

[@hattyknitsalong]

I love working with tiny needles, definitely prefer it to bulky needles. I believe in your ability to knit socks!!

[@reneesmith3033]

Love your podcast. I was led by one of your shorts. I subscribed, I will be back!

[@hattyknitsalong]

Thank you for watching and subscribing!

[@sharonimler857]

I know toe up 2 at a time magic loop socks. I use the Kiss Lips heel most of the time with the Turkish co. I recently found Laurie's twisted bo. It doesn't flair and is stretchy.

[@hattyknitsalong]

Oh I do like the way a Turkish CO looks, I'll have to look into Laurie's twisted BO. Thanks!

[@melissaemery8686]

Enjoyed your podcast. It was very interesting to see your thoughts on sock knitting. I am attempting my first sweater for me. I chose the Vesper by Knitty McPurly. It’s a free pattern. If it goes well I can see many more sweaters in my future.

[@hattyknitsalong]

Thanks for watching! I hope the sweater goes great!!

[@ritamay7526]

Enjoyed you talk about your socks, I am an avid sock knitter too, I’m trying this year to branch out a bit away from just vanilla,, I really like the stripe mosaic sock pattern, is there a pattern and a name for it please, I have lots of self striping yarn and am always looking for some patterns for it, thanks. I much prefer magic loop, I’ll use the 9 inch circulars for color work, I keep trying dpn,s but I just can’t get to a place where I’m comfortable with them. I am working on summer Lee,s color work monthly cuff club, A Musselburgh hat, The coorie poncho, and several socks.

[@hattyknitsalong]

Thanks for watching! I think the socks you’re talking about were the Contrast Blast socks by Stephen West. www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/contrast-blast-socks

[@jacquelinehood5417]

First time seeing your podcast. I have subscribed and will be looking for your next podcast. I knit lots of socks for myself and for gifts for friends and family. My go to are DPN’s also and have several sets in nickel and bamboo. I am currently knitting a pair of vanilla socks (my own pattern) and the Studio Sweater by Ysolda Teague.

[@hattyknitsalong]

Thanks for subscribing and sharing about your makes!

[@jeffreybrenner2313]

What a great episode of the best knitting podcast of all time! Love the sock talk! What they say about guys with big feet? They need big skeins to knit a pair of socks for themselves! Hatty, do you ever make your own patterns? Has anyone here tried it?

[@hattyknitsalong]

Thanks for watching Jeffy! I have not written my own pattern but sometimes when I knit socks I just make it up as I go a long. Is that the same thing?

[@jeffreybrenner2313]

​@@hattyknitsalong I think that counts. Excited for the new episode today. Going to watch at lunch.

[@SarahNeau-tp3bx]

Solid dpns user. Magic loop drives me nuts, plus I would get huge ladders when switching needles. With dpns ladders are easier to overcome. Working on a pair of knee high socks for nephew using Purl Souls Very Long Sock pattern and adapting to my gauge and his measurements.

[@hattyknitsalong]

Hooray for dpns!! How long does it take you to knit knee high socks?

[@SarahNeau-tp3bx]

I started sock #1 on Oct 10 and now I'm ready to do heel flap. 17 inches of 2x2 rib with decreasing from 84 sts to 68 in the last 7 inches.

[@stephaniewilliams8687]

I am determined to master socks in 2025. I tried twice and ended up frogging them. But I just purchased the Kate Atherley book so I can measure my foot better. I can see myself really getting in to socks as I master the fit.

[@hattyknitsalong]

Yeah! I am sure you will love it once you get the hang of it!

[@stephaniewilliams8687]

@@hattyknitsalong I hope so too. I am self taught. No one in my family or friends knit so I am learning on my own. I love knitting so I am determined to get my skills up so I can complete challenging knits! 😊🧶

[@hattyknitsalong]

I'm self taught too! You got this!