What are those socks with two needles?

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

Traditional knitting craftswomen are not satisfied, now they make socks on two knitting needles. What needlewomen don’t do with them: they are assembled from individual motifs, faked as a patchwork, start from the toe or from the heel, knit in parts (first the middle, then the ends), with and without a seam …

Advantages and disadvantages of knitting on two needles

It is believed that knitting socks on five needles is inconvenient, although the product is even. And the needlewoman does not need to calculate the loops that are evenly distributed on them. Socks on two knitting needles, according to needlewomen, have a lot of advantages:

• knitting speed increases;
• does not require a lot of space in the bag;
• loops do not fall off, and the product remains intact;
• you can knit two socks at once on circular or long needles.

You can only argue with the first statement. For beginner knitters and craftswomen who are used to knitting in one technique, it will be difficult at first to master a new pattern. The speed of knitting will be reduced to a minimum until the girl remembers the instructions.

The disadvantage of such socks is onecounting in the mind. That is, when knitting the heel, which in traditional knitting is divided into three parts, here you have to count loops on one. By the way, you can knit socks on two knitting needles in different ways, so there is no single pattern. But conditionally they can be divided into "toe" and "heel" products.

Knitting socks from heels

Knitting begins with an elastic band. Cast on the same number of stitches that you knit on four knitting needles, just keep in mind that the extreme ones will be hem. Knit an elastic band of the required height. Next, knit with any ornament, for example, with front stitch, the distance between the elastic band and the heel.

Now knit the heel, but not much

wow, not like you would knit regular socks. On two needles, the scheme involves dividing the loops into 4 parts and knitting the heel on two middle parts with crochets and short rows. For example, in your work you have 44 stitches, which means there are 11 stitches in each part. Now you need to go to the middle, knit three parts, double crochet, and turn the work inside out. Next, only the loops of the middle parts are knitted, and on one side of the work we do not knit the last one, and on the other, we make a yarn over until 8 stitches remain. Similarly, the second part of the heel is knitted.

Next, we carry out the toe, in the place of the toe there is a fourfold decrease, that is, the number of loops is mentally divided into four parts, where the first and last are knitted together. To make the decrease smooth, they begin to do it in every even row, and then in the odd one. The last step is to stitch the product.

Socks on two spokes from the toe

Cast on half sts as for socks on five needles (eg 24 out of 48 sts). Then knit according to the pattern: odd rows - all facial, only the last loop is purl; even rows - all purl, the last is not p

knitting. There should be about a third or a quarter of the total number of loops removed (in our example, this is 8-5 p.).

Then they are also knitted in stages (so that there are no holes in the product, lift the yarn over - the knitted loop of the previous row). Thus, a toe is formed. Then the foot of the sock is knitted to the heel according to the same plan as the toe. The last step is to tie the elastic, and the sock is ready.

Each craftswoman comes up with her own simplified version of knitting. So, some advise knitting the middle of the sock without a toe and heel, which are then tied and sewn on. There are socks on two knitting needles, seamless and with a seam. How comfortable they are to wear and beautiful, you need to look in the course of work. In any case, it is better to experiment with the patterns and texture of the threads, then your socks will be original and unique.