Detailed Instructions for Knitting Toe-Up Knee Socks with Chessboard Pattern for Children

Kids Socks:

toe-up knitted kids knee socks with chessboard pattern

Our children do not wear tights. Thus, it needs a winter woolen leggings and socks to warm the legs. Last winter, our daughter wanted high stockings, showing his knee, so I knitted children's knee socks. These instructions describe socks for child (5 years old), size 7.5 inch long foot. Copyright @ 2007-2012 blicknits - Cindy Nartmann - www.blicknits.de - Contact: cindy@blicknits.de All rights reserved. FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY (V1.0)

My Motivation

Martine Paulauskas pattern has published on her blog "Strickloft" (http://www.strickloft.kunstloft.de/) derived from an old knitting pattern book. This pattern is from the book "knitting pattern stripe in school" of 1894. According to this Martine knits all patterns, she has written the patterns in today's knitting "language" and photos taken of her knitted pieces. In two PDF documents, you can get the "pique" and the lace pattern of Martine. These patterns have simply fascinated me. Thus began my journey through the old knitting patterns. Viewing the wool it is often very quickly clear to me to whom this piece of knitting is to knit. So there were a few pairs of socks for my husband and our children. :s to Martine for her wonderful work, thus enriching the "old knitting books" my knitting

Before the start

Challenges

Toe-up sock knitting with heel flap and gusset

Prerequisites

I assume that knit, purl, bind-off, cables, work short rows, sewn threads, cast-on and cast-on during knitting. These techniques I am using here, but I will not describe them. I knit as a "right-handed", my knitting stitches are going from left to right. I use the "continental"" method of knitting, wool thread running through my left index finger.

Preparation

There are two 50-gram balls of wool. Both socks are knitted in "parallel", it is always a pair ready.

Abbreviations

BO - bind-off stitches CO - cast-on stitches k- knit kfb - knit front and back (knit in the front and back of the next stitch) pfb - purl front and back (purl in the front and back of the next stitch) p-purl ssk - slip slip knit, slip one stitch, as you knit it, then slip the next stitch. Insert the left needle into the front loops of the slipped stitches and knit them together from this position, through the back loops. st — stitch or stitches w&t- wrap and turn.

The start of the sock - the knit will be born

I knit the socks round. Toe 1. R: cast on (13 instep / 13 sole) using. ,Magic Cast-on" by Judy Becker or "figure-eight" or invisible cast on, or a closed cast on you know. 2. R: k (13 instep / 13 sole) in rounds 3. R: kfb, k until the second to last stitch, kfb, k 1(1 time instep and 1 time sole) 4. R: k (instep / sole) R3 and R4 - 6 times, the number of stitches for sole is 27 and for the instep 27

Feet

(instep (k 1, Chart A - 5 times, k 1) / sole (k 27)) work 36 rounds

Create the gusset

I use to increase the stitches kfb. The first stitch and the second to last stitch of sole are worked as kfb, every 3. Round - 8 times. All the other stitches are knitted. Instep stitches are working in pattern. After the last increasing round, knit two rounds without stitch increasing, knit until you stay in the middle of the sole stitches and stop here, start the heel

Heel (Turn the heel and heel flap)

Turn the heel

The instep stitches goes sleeping and I knit only the sole stitches, for a while. Create the short row rounding on the sole site the heel. H1R: k 5, kfb, k 1, w&t H2R: slip the w&t stitch, p 13, pfb, p 1, w&t H3R: k 11, kfb, k 1, w&t H4R: p 9, pfb, p 1, w&t

Heel flap

F1R: k 17 (stitch 9, 12, and 15 are the wrapped stitches), ssk, turn work F2R: sl 1, p 25 (stitch 18, 21 and 24 are the wrapped stitches), p2tog, turn work F3R: sl1, k 25, ssk, turn work F4R: sl1. p 25, p2tog, turn work F3R and F4R - 9 times repeat The heel flap is done! Now I knit the leg. 22 rows are worked.

Leg

To reduce holes between the heel flap and the top of the foot, simply take here stitch from the cross stitch thread and remove those stitches again a few laps later. (instep stitches work in pattern / sole k) work 42 rounds (two stitches before the sole center kfb and one stitch after the sole center kfb) work 2 rounds) 8 times (that's 24 rounds and 43 sole stitches) (instep stitches work in pattern / sole ((p 2, k 2) 4 times, p 2, k 7, (p 2, k 2) 4 times, p 2)) work 18 rounds (3 stitches before the sole center ssk and one stitch after the sole center k 2 together) work 2 rounds) 2 times (that's 6 rounds and 39 sole stitches)

Cuff

(instep (k 2, p 3) 5 times, k 2) / sole (p 2, k 2) 4 times, p 2, k 3, (p 2, k 2) 4 times, p 2)) work 21 rounds or 41 rounds The description is how I knit the cuff. You can knit it as you like. My favorite technic for bind-off is the "Russian bind-off", I explain my way in the appendix of this document. If the bind-off is stretchy it is much easier to put the sock on and there is nothing fix around the leg.

The first sock is done, and what is about the second?

Weave the end of the yarn. After I finished my socks, they get a warm bath in a washbasin or washing machine with a soft wool washing agent. After this they have to dry in lying position.

Appendix

Charts

ChartA (based on "Alte deutsche Pique-Muster" by Martine Paulauskas (http:/www.strickloft.kunst-loft.de/), pattern 3 on page 13 (I have change the row numbers and the stitch numbers. The changed pattern fits better for these socks.):

Thus, the pattern is 6 stitches wide and 8 rounds high.

Bind-off

My way, based on the "Russian-bind-off" Knit two stitches as they have to be knitted, now insert front side the left needle into the two stitches on the right needle and knit these two stitches through the back loops. On right needle is one stitch. \* Knit the next stitch from left needle as they have to knit and repeat the knitting through the back loops of the two stitches on the right needle.\* Repeat the work in the \*\* as long as all stitches are BO. This BO I also use for my Toe-up socks or children pullover cuff BO or shawls. Wherever I think a stretchy BO I should use, I take this one.