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Learn to Knit Socks

Learn by watching!
1. Get your pattern – $8.00 US via PayPal

2. Get your yarn and needles – worsted weight yarn and size 5 US double-pointed needles.

3. Get your knit on – the pattern references the videos below to get you through the tricky parts. (You must have an internet connection to view the videos.)

Video 1 – Working with double-pointed needles and starting the cuff.

Video 2 – Dividing for the heel flap and knitting the heel flap.

Video 3 – Turning the heel.

Video 4 – Working the gusset.

Video 5 – Toe shaping.

Video 6 – Kitchener stitch (grafting the toe).

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196 comments on “Learn to Knit Socks”

  1. Hi Staci-
    First off, thank you for posting such professional and easy to follow videos! DPNs seriously intimidated me, as I am fairly new to knitting (6 weeks maybe?), so once I figured out how to knit in the round on cabled needles (1 pair) I was inspired by a friend who made some simple yet festive socks for herself on dpn’s.

    I have seen several other videos out there, and while they are lovely knitters and the quality may be good on the videos, they lacked that natural teaching quality.

    I enjoy the way you ‘Break it on down’ for the socks- they ARE an unusually shaped clothing item and for this newbie- it made a lot of sense, so I thank you!

    Now I got as far as turning the heel (awesome to see it come to shape by my own hands!) and then somehow goofed on the the second part of the gusset, so I ripped it all out and will start again tomorrow when my eyeballs uncross!

    Thank you again for the great video quality, the gentle and humorous teaching style (if I am ever in Austin I will stop by the shop) and for the work you do with Basenji’s.
    I am an CA State Humane Officer myself and appreciate the efforts of anyone who works to help animals.

    Keep it up!
    Sharon

  2. OOPS…just re-read…it should have read EX-CA State Humane Officer….
    Also a photographer- and I am having a blast looking at your Flikr shots!
    Well done!

  4. I just wanted to say how much I enjoy watching your videos. I am a self-taught knitter and have only made dishcloths up to now. I used your technique/stitch videos to further my knowledge and found them very easy to learn from. I have 3 books on sock knitting, and none of them break the process down or make it look as doable as you do. I have gathered all my supplies and will be starting my first pair of socks using your pattern in the coming weeks to months as my schedule permits, so I hope you keep your videos up for a good long time! 🙂 I am actually from Austin and hope to visit the shop next time I’m in town. Thank you for such quality videos. I feel like I have my own private teacher in the comfort of my own home.

  5. Thank you for posting your knitting videos on youtube. My first knitting project was a basic stitch scarf which took me two years to complete. My second project was socks which I was able to complete in two weeks by just watching your videos. I started my sock project trying to follow the book but I got stuck at the heel. I accidentally came across your sock videos on youtube and was able to complete my socks in no time. Your videos are of good quality and I was able to keep up with the pace. Thanks again.

  6. hello staci!
    i just completed my first pair of sock in 4 days using your pattern and watching the videos on youtube! i’m a beginning knitter and have only been knitting for about 4mos and have been wanting to give socks a try. this was easy. you were like my own personal teacher and if i didn’t catch something, i could just replay and with it being on youtube, i could access it at anytime of the night or day. now my dad, husband and little boy have put in requests. thanks so much!

  7. Hi Staci

    Love the videos!

    Before I buy the pattern, just wanted to check what size the socks will be. I wear a small size. Should I try to use 2 ply yarn maybe or a smaller needle?

    Thank you!

  8. Hi Bhavna – thanks for the note! Even if you have a small foot, you will want to knit the pattern in the same size yarn and needles as the pattern calls for. The socks are stretchy, and should fit your foot fine if your foot is about normal width. The pattern tells you how to make the sock a perfect fit for the length of your foot, so that part is easy. 🙂

    If you have any questions while you’re knitting the pattern, you can always email me for a quick answer.

    S t a c i

  9. Hi Staci,
    I completed my first sock after your class today at Guage. That was a great class and you are a marvelous teacher. Too bad I’m not a very good knitter. : ( but I’m hanging in there and I have hopes that my socks mate will be the pretty one. Your video are a tremendous help to new knitters like me who want to expand their repertoire beyond scarfs.
    Thanks again.

    Loretta

  10. Hi Staci,

    The gussett is the absolute most diffficult part of the sock for me.

    When I pick up the stiches on the second side, they are much tighter and there is a stich between the v’s. Am I doing something wrong?

    Thanks,

    Vicki

  12. Your videos were SO helpful as I learned to knit socks! Now I’m hooked on socks, and still revisit your video on the kichener stitch as I finish each sock! I think I will now buy your pattern/videos on knitting two socks at once on circulars. You are an AMAZING teacher (or dare I say … you rock my socks?!) Oh! I just bought your basic scarf pattern/videos to teach my 22 year old daughter who asked to learn to knit! You’re terrific. THANKS!

  13. I came across your videos when I first started knitting about a year and a half ago. I’m also a self-taught knitter and I love it. I had to take 6 months off because I dislocated my shoulder last Halloween, but now I’m back and have almost completed my first Christmas stocking! I decided to start early this year just in case. I’ve looked at a lot of videos on youtube.com but I always come back to yours because your instructions are so clear and easy to follow. So far, in the past year, I’ve knitted some washcloths, a scarf, 3 hats, a headband, and the Christmas stocking. I’m also halfway through a sweater. I recommend your website and instructional videos to anyone I run across who wants to learn how to knit.

  14. Thanks so much Staci you really made it easy to understand sock knitting. Your lessons are broken down into easy to manage steps and you make it fun as well!! I’m now on my first pair of socks with actual sock yarn and needles!!

  15. I was at Hobby Lobby today and another lady and I were talking and she mentioned how she had tried and tried to learn how to make socks and I agreed with her. I told her I finally learned how on this great youtube site with verypink.com. She laughed and said me too. We actually high fived about it. lol We went on to talk about how much we each enjoy all you offer and what quality it all is. So, a big thank you from both of us. 🙂

  16. i really want to try knitting socks, but i prefer to only think about one new technique at a time and im fairly comfortable on dpns.
    what do you recommend for a first sock tutorial?
    should it be toe up or cuff down?
    thanks

  17. I tried to do this but I failed. For me, the directions are kinda confusing cause i’m pretty young. Can you help me somehow?

  18. Hi Staci,

    I’ve been wanting to learn to knot socks for a long time, but didn’t find anything that made me feel confident enough to start until this pattern and video, so thank you so much for making these. Your videos, especially, are so clear and helpful. But, I do have a problem with my sock project. It is labelled as a one-size sock, but it is way to small for both me and my daughter, which means no one will be able to use this once I’m done. The cuff just barley fits around my ankle stretched as far as it will go. I tried doing it again on bigger needles, but it didn’t make enough of a difference. I really need to just start with more stitches, I’m thinking an extra 4 on each needle for a total of 52 instead of 40. But then I don’t know what I’m doing well enough to adjust the numbers as I go through the heel section. Could you give adjusted numbers for the heel to make a bigger sock?
    Thanks.
    Lori

  19. I just have to say Thank You. I purchased your sock pattern and watched your videos all they way through prior to begining. I am a visual learner, so the videos are perfect. Very professional, clear and precise. I am just finishing up my second sock (firt pair). I could not quit smiling when I finished the first sock. I knitted a sock. Happiness. (-: Thank you so much for your videos.

  21. When I’ve picked up the stitches, I noticed that by the time I’ve knit a fair bit into the sock I have a hole. It is located at the junction of the gusset, instep and the top of the heel flap. Can you make a video showing how to fix this common problem?

    Thanks

  22. Hi Staci,

    I am an experienced hand and machine knitter, but had never knitted a sock in my life – or used DPN’s. I tried to follow a baby sockee pattern, but stalled at the picking up for the gusset. Your video is so easy to understand and you have a brilliant teaching manner! Thanks I will now revisit those pesky little sockee’s to finish them!!

    Karen

  23. I learned to knit socks with perfect heels (I think…) watching your classes. I still have finished just one pair, but I will knit various from now. Thank you Staci.

  24. Staci, thank you, thank you for making me feel like a “real” knitter! I felt that if I could learn to knit a sock, that act would qualify me! I am moving on to my first pair to wear, beginning today. Over the weekend, I knit that first sock…we have four young children, I was at the computer, needles clacking, while redirecting children to dad if they needed anything..it went great..knit the sock over two days, including some ripping out and dishes, laundry, diapers…thanks again, feeling very confident!!!

  25. i am a 10 year old who knows how to knit(crazy right)and i thought these look easy thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  26. Hi,

    Just finished knitting my very own sock……ready to star the other pair…..your videos are just the BEST! Greetings from Australia

  27. You have made finishing the toe look so much easier, I have a problem that I’m left handed, taught right handed knitting but sew left handed! I have started toe up socks as I have quite a problem with the sewing up but with luck your method could be the answer. From very a wet UK, Juls

  28. Hello Staci!

    I just wanted to thank you for ALL of your tutorials! I taught myself how to knit through YouTube videos (I’ve been knitting for a little over nine months) and I picked it up easily but once in a while I needed some extra help and I have found your instruction to be the most beneficial. Thank you for making DPNs, socks and more advanced projects a breeze! 🙂

  29. Staci,
    Stumbled onto your videos and web site through YouTube. I am a self taught knitter and have been knitting on and off for 50 years. I have never been able to make socks because of the dpn factor. I tried it once and felt like I had 10 thumbs. Then I found your very clear instructional video on knitting socks with the magic loop method. I am proud to say I am now on my second pair of socks and loving it. Thanks for the wonderfully well thought out patterns and coordinating videos.

  30. Hi,
    Staci help I can’t get past the letter “H” when I start knitting every thing get all tangled up and I can’t go any further I totaly under stand the pattern but the begining is awful for me.
    What can I do it sounds like every one can knit it but me.

    SS.

  31. Sally – two things that may help you.

    First, you might try watching this video. It’s a short technique video dedicated to getting started on DPNs. Maybe there will be something in here that will trigger success for you!
    https://verypink.com/2011/04/27/getting-started-with-dpns/

    Next, you need to try not to get frustrated, and keep practicing. If you find yourself getting frustrated, put the knitting down for a while. Knitting is supposed to be fun! 🙂

    Hope that helps!
    S t a c i

  32. Hi Staci,

    Loved knitting your Fair Isle hat. Thank you.

    Do you have a basic top down, kitchener toe sock pattern which requires
    at least a size 4 US (3.5mm) needle. I have spent hours looking for one and
    cannot find it.

    (I want to knit with On-line Supersocke 6 ply yarn which calls for size 3.5 mm needle.
    This is a German company and they do not provide the sock pattern pictured on
    yarn.)

    Thank you
    Tina

  33. Hi Staci,
    I just want to thank you for the marvellous tutorials you do. I had started with a free sock pattern and went to every knitting shop around where generous knitters told me what to do. But I found you and now I can really knit confidently. It is your superb teaching abilities and the wonderful way you chunk everything in to bite sized stages. The professionalism of the videos is a part if it; nicely staged with a pretty garment in the frame and the inset of you knitting alongside the close up. That is where is all other videos fall short. If someone is shown hands only (not as well manicured as yours) and poorly lit, it just isn’t the same. Also you are neither too wordy nor too brief. My mother never explained the little basics, like the correctly mounted stitch and S as if to P. Being French, her style was different too. If I ever visit the US I will come to TX just for a workshop. Thank you for your generous help and give the pooches a big hug too,

    Kit

  34. Hi there, thnx alot guyz your videos are very much clear and easy to follow, right now am busy with my first sock!

  35. Hi Staci,

    I followed the pattern for this sock, and I think I did a pretty good job!The videos were a great help!
    I’m now wearing my socks but they don’t fit very good, they fall off my ankle. DId I knit too loose? Or can I do something to make it more tight? Does it help if I cast on less stitches and make a smaller sock?

    Even so, I’m very proud of my first pare of socks!

    Thanks!

    Lara

  37. I would assume that each sock comes out slightly different??
    So would it be wise, for a beginner/intermediate, to do the double knit sock? ( 2 socks at a time on 2 circular needles?

  38. Dear Staci,
    I am knitting a Christmas stocking for my son. I am at the heel and I have done it several times already but the directions do not match. Could you help me please?
    The web address is
    http://www.simplicity.com/t-free-knitting-pattern-fisherman-stocking.aspx
    When I did the fisherman’s pattern was a problem too but at the end I figured it out. With the heel I just cant. I am not a professional knitted so you can imagine I am desperate.
    Thank you very much
    Paula

  39. thank you very much I’am realy happy that I know how to knit socks for my children merci beaucoup beaucoup

  42. Hi was looking for the location to purchase your sock patterns. I was very impressed at how easy you made the majic loop look on the tuturial on utube. would like to purchase a mans sock pattern to use with this method, I have knitted socks in several methods but you explain it so simplistic why use anything else. Thanks

  43. After taking 2 classes at local yarn shops and still not quite getting it enough to knit a sock on my own, I discovered your website, tutorials and patterns. I can now finally knit a sock, and understand what I’m doing, thanks to your very clear videos and pattern instructions.

    THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!

  44. First let me say that the tutorials were excellent and the pattern going along with them is very clear. I am not an experienced knitter and I am left handed. I am almost done with sock #1, looks pretty good I think, with a few mistakes. But I have an interesting phenomenon! I knit inside out!! Which means, when I am done I have to turn them inside out so that the nice smooth purl will be on the outside. Ever have that problem come up?

  46. Thanks so much for the easy to follow video on knitting socks….something a beginner like myself has been hesitant to ever try when just reading instructions…but now I think I am ready to begin while looking at your instructions as I knit. You are the greatest teacher for an old lady like me…just turned 70 , but always had a desire to follow in my grandmother’s footsteps, who knitted so many beautiful things and is probably praying for me from Heaven that I will succeed. Thanks again for a wonderful, inspiring website. NanaBJ

  47. um on turning the heel,you said”work you way thruogh and just purl two or knit two on the biggest gap”am i supposed to knit or purl my way through?

  48. Staci,
    Just finished my first sock. The pattern and the videos made it so easy! I can’t wait to do my second one. I allowed my self a learning curve, before I “really” start with sock yarn and small needles. Thanks for the support!!

  49. Hi Staci,
    I just finished my first pair of socks and I am still in awe that I could do it! I’m a new knitter and this was my first project that wasn’t a square washcloth or easy rectangle. Now I feel like I can do anything! Thanks for making sock knitting so approachable, even to newbies, and keep up the great work!

  50. Hello!!

    I really like to make socks from the toe up (like you taught me on your video) because I use all the yarn, I love the short rows method, but I want to try this kind of heel too.

    Is it possible to make a toe up sock with this kind of “difficult” heel?

    I’ve read that it is possible, but I don’t see anyone doing it. is it because is more difficult? Could you make a video of a pattern with this kind of heel to make it going from the toe up?

    Thank you!!

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