Patridge bantam chicken poorly foot?

[..lay a little egg for me]

Hi all

 

I ordered some laceweight cashmere from e-Bay to make a chemo hat for my sister, but they sent me 3 cones of wool and not 3 balls (lucky me)! So I have loads left over. Now a friend has asked me to make her some bed socks, so I would like to use the cashmere, but does anyone have any ideas how to make thick bed socks from such fine wool (apart from just knitting several strands together)? Also, do bed socks normally not have a heel? I have seen some patterns on the web that appear just to be tubes and got to wondering if it was a good idea so that when the socks rotate in the night there is never a heel in the wrong place. I can turn a heel so it is no problem if the pattern has a heel, I just wondered.

 

Your thoughts welcomed!

[Mrs Webmuppet]

I have knitted socks with heels and they have been used a bed socks. My friend reckons they are the toastiest socks she has ever had . Most sock wool is 4 ply. I'm not sure how thick laceweight yarn is (never used anything that lightweight). There is a fantastic sock pattern on http://www.sockyarn.co.uk/sock_pattern_calculator.php.

 

Natural fibres are nearly always warmer than synthetic ( except fleece).

[Couperwife]

I would love to be able to knit socks (turing a heel is totally beyond me )

 

good luck with the socks

 

will you post a picture when you are done

 

cathy

x

[..lay a little egg for me]

Turning a heel is much easier than you might think. Basically, you stop knitting in the round and start knitting back and forth, shortening your rows by one stitch each time until you reach around 10 stitches and then you start increasing again until you are back at the beginning. This makes a "pocket" into which the heel fits. Then start knitting in the round again. There are some fancy bits of stuff you can do to strengthen the turns but that, in a nutshell, is what you do. If you get a sock pattern and just follow it, it will suddenly become clear (no, really, it will)!

 

I have a great toe-up sock pattern where you start at the toe (of course!) and increase at both "sides" until it is the right width for your foot (you can keep trying it on). Then knit in the round until 3" away from the heel of your foot, and increase 2 stitches on the "heel" side of the foot; keep on knitting until you are 2" inches away and increase again (that makes 4 more stitches on the heel side than the front of the foot. Then turn the heel. Decrease the 4 stitches and carry on up the leg until you get to the length sock you want! It is fantastically easy and you never have to worry you are going to run out of yarn before reaching the toe!

 

What I was wondering was whether there was any particular stitch pattern that would result in a thick fabric from fine wool. Some kind of cabling or rib perhaps?

 

 

Photos? Hmmm, have never got to grips with how to post photos on the forum. I will try though...

[Snowy]

Turning a heel is much easier than you might think. Basically, you stop knitting in the round and start knitting back and forth, shortening your rows by one stitch each time until you reach around 10 stitches and then you start increasing again until you are back at the beginning. This makes a "pocket" into which the heel fits. Then start knitting in the round again. There are some fancy bits of stuff you can do to strengthen the turns but that, in a nutshell, is what you do. If you get a sock pattern and just follow it, it will suddenly become clear (no, really, it will)!

 

I have a great toe-up sock pattern where you start at the toe (of course!) and increase at both "sides" until it is the right width for your foot (you can keep trying it on). Then knit in the round until 3" away from the heel of your foot, and increase 2 stitches on the "heel" side of the foot; keep on knitting until you are 2" inches away and increase again (that makes 4 more stitches on the heel side than the front of the foot. Then turn the heel. Decrease the 4 stitches and carry on up the leg until you get to the length sock you want! It is fantastically easy and you never have to worry you are going to run out of yarn before reaching the toe!

 

What I was wondering was whether there was any particular stitch pattern that would result in a thick fabric from fine wool. Some kind of cabling or rib perhaps?

 

 

Photos? Hmmm, have never got to grips with how to post photos on the forum. I will try though...

What about a moss stitch? I think thats what it is called! It's the knit one purl one on one side, and on the reverse do the opposite of what you do to get a rib, ie instead of knitting into knits and purling into purls, you knit into purls and purl into knits (it's that long since I've done any knitting I can't remember! But I did once do a sweater in moss stitch - it's nice and even but slightly chunkier)