[NFB-Krafters-Korner] Socks

Mon May 10 05:50:15 UTC 2021

I know how to do the cast-on, my question was how you use this cast-on 
with two at a time. Everything I have read uses a different cast-on or 
you have to start them separately and then move them to the same needles.

I was wondering how you cast-on two at the same time.

Cindy

On 5/9/2021 9:52 AM, Tracy Carcione via NFB-Krafters-Korner wrote:
> The figure-8 cast on, with 2 circular needles:
> Make a slip stitch loop and put it on 1 needle, just like starting any other
> cast on.
> Hold the other needle parallel to the first, as close to it as you can, with
> the points going the same direction.
> Then wrap the yarn in a figure-8, going over 1 needle, between the needles,
> around the other needle the opposite way, between the needles, and so on
> until you have the right number of stitches on both, around 7 or 8 or so.
> Knit around to solidify things, and then start with your increases.
> When I've gotten a little ways, I weave the end through the join of the
> figure-8, just to cover any looseness that may be there.
>
> It's easy. The only slightly tricky bit is keeping it not too loose, not too
> tight.
> Tracy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFB-Krafters-Korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of slery via NFB-Krafters-Korner
> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2021 3:26 AM
> To: Tracy Carcione via NFB-Krafters-Korner
> Cc: slery
> Subject: Re: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] Socks
>
> Tracy,
>
> I also use the invisible figure-8 cast-on. Can you explain how you are
> able to do this and two at the same time? Everything I read said that
> you had to start the socks separately and then move them over to the
> same needles. I've never had second sock syndrome and I also make my
> toes have a right and a left so it didn't really bother me to do them
> separate but it would be interesting to try sometime.
>
> I am currently watching prices as I need to make some white socks and I
> really want this bamboo cotton blend I bought off Joyce a while ago but
> the company went out of business in 2018. My current go to cotton sock
> yarn is Cascade Fixation. It used to be KnitPicks Risata but they
> discontinued it (yes, I did buy up the clearance, but none is white).
>
> Cindy
>
> On 5/8/2021 11:05 AM, Tracy Carcione via NFB-Krafters-Korner wrote:
>> There is an excellent invisible cast on in Knitting from the Top.  I have
>> copied it into a braille file, and I almost always have to read it again
>> before I start.  There's a finger arrangement that sounds complicated, but
>> actually isn't, once you get the hang of it.
>>
>> However, for socks I use an invisible figure-8 cast on that's in Socks
> from
>> the Toe Up, and it's very easy.
>> I always make socks using the 2 circular needles method, which makes 2
> socks
>> at a time, as well as allowing the figure-8 cast on.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: NFB-Krafters-Korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On
>> Behalf Of Deborah via NFB-Krafters-Korner
>> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2021 10:01 AM
>> To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
>> Cc: misslady0971 at gmail.com
>> Subject: Re: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] Socks
>>
>> I think I read Sensational Socks once but I'm not sure about socks from
> the
>> toe.
>>
>> I'd like doing it that way except that I haven't found a provisional
> cast-on
>> that I get along with.  I think I had one once but I misplaced it.  I can
>> knit, but I don't crochet, don't do magic loop, and some other things that
>> are a part of a lot of provisional cast ons.
>>
>> Thanks for the info about the books.  I'll take another look at them.
>>
>> Deb B.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: NFB-Krafters-Korner <nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org> On
> Behalf
>> Of Tracy Carcione via NFB-Krafters-Korner
>> Sent: Saturday, May 8, 2021 9:43 AM
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>> Cc: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
>> Subject: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] Socks
>>
>> Yep, socks are fun, especially toe-up.  NLS has a few books on the
> subject,
>> as does Bookshare.  Sensational Socks has good explanations of sock
> basics,
>> as does Socks From the Toe Up.
>> A lot of sock books have charts, which is very annoying, but Sensational
>> Socks has stitch dictionaries too, so you can make up your own socks
>> combining the basics.
>> And then there are some free sock patterns on the old Internet.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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> On
>> Behalf Of Deborah via NFB-Krafters-Korner
>> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2021 9:12 AM
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>> Cc: misslady0971 at gmail.com
>> Subject: Re: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] A question
>>
>> Wow!  I hate I missed that class.  I have made only one pair of socks that
> I
>> didn't mind claiming was my own, but I like making them.
>>
>> Deb B.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: NFB-Krafters-Korner <nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org> On
> Behalf
>> Of Tracy Carcione via NFB-Krafters-Korner
>> Sent: Saturday, May 8, 2021 9:04 AM
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>> Cc: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
>> Subject: Re: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] A question
>>
>> Hi Deb.
>> Yes, it was a KK class.
>> The ribbings I have I gathered from the NLS book Sensational Knitted
> Socks,
>> which has lots of interesting stitch dictionaries.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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> On
>> Behalf Of Deborah via NFB-Krafters-Korner
>> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2021 5:36 PM
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>> Cc: misslady0971 at gmail.com
>> Subject: Re: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] A question
>>
>> Hey Tracy,
>>
>> Did you teach the sock class in KK?
>>
>> I love all sorts of ribbings.  I've been using some lately on a shawl that
> I
>> really like.  But I've seen lots of different ones.
>>
>> Deb B.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: NFB-Krafters-Korner <nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org> On
> Behalf
>> Of Tracy Carcione via NFB-Krafters-Korner
>> Sent: Friday, May 7, 2021 8:25 AM
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>> Cc: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
>> Subject: Re: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] A question
>>
>> Hi Jeanette.
>> I created a list of rib patterns for my sock class.  At present, I can
> only
>> find it as a .brf file, though.
>> Is that what you're looking for?  If so, I can hunt through my emails for
> a
>> .txt version.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Behalf Of Jeanette Kutash via NFB-Krafters-Korner
>> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2021 6:53 PM
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>> Cc: Jeanette Kutash
>> Subject: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] A question
>>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>>    
>>
>> Several years ago someone (and I don't remember who) taught a class and as
> a
>> part of this class there was a list of a number of ribbing pattern
> options.
>>    
>>
>> If you are still here in KK, please email me off list at:
>>
>> Kutash-jm at comcast.net
>>
>> And tell me how I can get that list of options.
>>
>>    
>>
>> I started researching this issue and it has made me a crazy person (grin).
>>
>>    
>>
>> Thank you for any help.
>>
>>    
>>
>> Jeanette
>>
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