How to Measure Your Foot for Hand Knit Socks
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Learn how to measure your foot so you can make well-fitting, hand-knit socks.
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Pattern: Birch Gove Socks - shop.thechilly...
Notions: Creative Grids 6x12 inch non-slip grip ruler, tape measure
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So helpful! Knitting my first sock with your tutorials, they’re very clear, thank you!
Thank you! This will help a lot for knitting socks for friends.
Thank you so much for this explanation, especially the pattern part. I keep getting socks that are too big, so I wasn’t calculating for enough negative ease. Hopefully my next pair is perfect now!
I wish someone would design a sock for men like my dad who wears a size 15 shoe!!!
The detail that I am looking to find is the length of the knitting before the increase begins for the heel.
Hi, Laurie. There's not a single, general formula for determining where to start a sock heel. That's mainly because there are several different heel shaping methods (short row heels, gusset heels, several styles of flap and gusset heels and a few styles of afterthought heels). Each heel shaping method give your sock a different fit and each are worked over a different number of rnds and/or rows.
Where can I get the pattern for the sock in the demonstration? What kind of heel is that?
With the measurements(length & Circumference) as you stated. How do I know how many stitches to cast on(my start cast on stitches on a magic loop).
The next piece of information you'll need to figure out is your gauge. That means knitting a swatch (in the round), blocking it (by laundering and drying the swatch as you will launder and dry the socks), then measuring your gauge. Once you know both your stitch gauge and your desired sock circumference, grab your calculator. # CO sts = gauge sts/in x desired circumference. Whenever fit or size matters, your gauge matters. Happy knitting.
The Chilly Dog thank you
Do you think I'd need to adjust anything since I've no toes on my foot? (Osteomyelitis caused me to lose them)
Where can I purchase the ruler you use?
It's a quilting ruler and I'm pretty sure I bought mine at Joann years ago. I imagine most fabric and quilting stores would carry something similar.
what's 5% of 8.5 inches. How do I calculate percentages?
It's been months, but for reference:
In maths we can use numbers from 0 to 1 in place of percentages; 0 is 0%, 1 is 100%, 0.5 is 50%, and so on.
To find 5% of something, multiply it by 0.05. To take 5% off something in a single step, you can multiply by 0.95 (95%).
(To reverse this, use division. If you know A is 80% of B, and you want to know B, divide A by 0.8. You can't multiply by 1.2 (which adds 20%) because 20% of B is smaller than 20% of A.)
Bit of a tangent, but it's useful to know.
*larger than 20% of A, whoops.
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