Getting Started Knitting Socks

By Ann Budd

Book Overview

From cast-on stitches to binding off, this handbook details the simple steps needed to turn seemingly complicated sock knitting projects into easy and enjoyable activities. Helpful photographs and instructional drawings ensure that even inexperienced knitters will be able to produce high-quality socks and handle more complicated techniques, such as the Kitchener stitch at the toe. Using instructions for five different sizes--from child through adult large--at five different gauges, knitters can produce styles ranging from delicate dress socks to thick and furry slipper socks. More adventurous knitters can add variety and flair by following one of 16 unique designs or trying one of the dozens of rib, cable, and lace patterns provided. With plenty of tips and a handy stitch dictionary, this guide unleashes the creativity and fun of sock knitting. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596680296
• ISBN13: 9781596680296
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Krause Craft
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.2" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

clear directions

This book is great. I'm eager to start making socks.

My Go To Book

I have many books on knitting socks I have purchased throughout the years but this is the best. The instructions are so well and cleary written, easy to choose a pattern and yarn. For me this is really the only book on sock knitting one needs. So happy that I discovered it.

I love this book!

I love this book because it explains the basics of sock knitting in detail. Multiple patterns in every yarn type from fingering sock yarn to bulky yarn. Just finished my first pair from this book and they fit perfect!!

This Book Covers Everything for Socks!

Wow! After purchasing about five other sock-knitting how-to books, HERE'S the one I should have bought at the very first! Not only does Ms. Budd cover the rudiments of sock making and shaping, etc, she covers about every GAUGE imaginable. Do you want to make socks out of a bulky Boucle yarn? No problem! She has the gauge for that. Wanna try out socks with a basic worsted weight? She's got that here too! PLUS, she has all...

FINALLY a sock-knitting book that makes sense!

I tried several other sock knitting books (with terrible results and frustration!) before I stumbled upon this gem. This was the book that FINALLY made sock knitting make sense to me! The book begins with an in-depth explanation of the anatomy of a sock as well as all the skills that you'll need to knit one. From there, it gives you several "recipes" to knit socks based on stitches-per-inch. In the back of the book, there...