Warm, soft, bright, with patterns or plain knitted socks are loved by everyone: both adults and children. How to knit 5 knitting socks? Here's an example for size 30/31.
It is necessary
In order to knit socks, you will need 5 special knitting needles with a thickness of # 2, 5 (for fine yarn) or # 3 (for medium thickness yarn) and thread
Instructions
Step 1
The approximate yarn consumption for socks of the indicated size is 50 g, taking into account the fact that the yarn is of medium thickness (150-155 / 50 g).
The knitting density should be 28 loops and 36 rows - 10x10 cm.
You should start working from the top of the sock. To knit a sock of the required size, we collect 48 loops, evenly distributing them on four knitting needles, close them in a ring and knit with an elastic band (alternating two front and two purl loops). The length can be knitted arbitrarily, in our case 12 cm will be enough. Do not forget, the back line of the middle is the transition from one row to another.
Step 2
On the loops of the 4th (fourth) and 1st (first) knitting needles - on both sides of the back line of the middle, on 24 loops we knit straight and back with the front stitch. Thus, we should have a heel wall, the optimal height is 4.5 cm or 16 rows.
Step 3
Next, we knit the lower part of the heel, the loops must be divided into three equal parts. If the number of loops is not divisible by exactly 3, then make sure that the 1st and 3rd parts have the same number of loops. In our case, we knit the wall of the heel on 28 loops, so after the first 8 loops we make the first mark, after the next 8 - another one, and the last 8 loops remain. Knit the first two parts with the front loops, without knitting the 1st loop in front of the 2nd mark. We knit this loop in front of the mark and the loop after it, along with a tilt to the left, turn and remove the 1st loop, as in purl knitting. Next, you need to knit with the purl loops of the middle part of the heel, with the exception of 1 loop in front of the first mark. The loop in front of the mark and the loop after the mark are knitted together with the purl, turn and remove the 1st loop, as in purl knitting. It is necessary to decrease it until we knit all the side loops, and only the loops of the middle part remain in our work. We turn the work and knit to the middle.
Step 4
Now we knit a wedge of the instep of the foot. To do this, on each edge of the heel, we collect 12 loops, as a result, we should get less on the second and third loops than on the first and fourth knitting needles. During the formation of the wedge of the instep of the foot, the extra loops must be gradually reduced - the last 2 loops of the 1st knitting needle are knitted together with the front one, the first 2 loops of the 4th knitting needle - together with a tilt to the left. Until we reach the total initial number of loops, the same on each spoke, these reductions will have to be repeated in every 2nd row. Then we knit the foot to the required length, in our case another 16 cm to the toe.
Step 5
We form the toe as follows: knit the 3rd and 2nd loops of the 1st (first) knitting needle together with the front knitting needle, and knit the 2nd and 3rd loops of the 2nd (second) knitting needles together with a tilt to the left. Decrease at the end of the 3rd knitting needle, as on the 1st knitting needle, and at the beginning of the 4th knitting needle, as on the 2nd. These reductions must be repeated five times in every 2nd row. The length of the foot for our size is 20 cm, the remaining 8 loops on the spoke, we tighten it with a working thread and fasten it on the wrong side of the sock.
