Winter is certainly the time when you want to go for new, warm and comfortable things to wear at home. You certainly know the names of knitting and crochet, but have you ever heard of giant knitting? It works just like the small knitting machine, which makes it possible to make rolls of wool. However, given its size, we can afford more fantasy. It exists in different sizes that allow you to make different types of woollen projects: Adult or baby hats, snoods, mittens and socks!
We had already presented you a video tutorial to knit a giant knitting hat, now here are the booties! You will have to use big wool because the stitches are not very tight. Use minimum wool for crochet 6 or needles 7 to 8, up to wool for crochet 10.
To make woolen socks you will need to use the smallest size of the knitting set. This circle has 24 picots. The largest size allows you to make an adult bonnet. You will need about 2 to 3 hours per sock. The second one will certainly go faster!
The first part of the video is used to make the hem of the sock. We start by knitting the top, the heel, the foot and then the toe. Make a slip knot and hook it to the first peg. Wrap the thread twice around the pimples, on 3 pimples each time. Then pass the bottom yarn over the pimple. Do not use the thread at this stage. The looser it is, the prettier your hem will look. Go round and round until you come back to the first pimple.
Pass the wire in front of the first spike above the first wire. Pass the first thread over the first spike. Repeat this operation on all the pins over several rounds until you have a knit length of just over 4 cm.
Collect the first loops from the first round and place them on their respective pimples. Use this opportunity to hide the wire end in the hem. Run the bottom thread over the pimples again to close the hem.
Now we're going to knit the ankle part of the sock, below the hem. This time wrap the yarn around the pimples, over the yarns that are already attached to the pimples and pass the yarn from underneath over the pimple. Continue until you are about 10 cm long. You can make it a little shorter or a little longer.
It's the heel of the sock. We're gonna have to do a decrease using the first 12 spikes. To do this, start by knitting the first 11 pimples normally. On the twelfth you will make a loop and then start again on the eleventh pimple without knitting the twelfth. Knit normally, but knit back the eleventh and follow it to the first pimple. For the first pimple, do the same as for the twelfth: do not knit the loop. Start again in the other direction until you reach the eleventh pimple, which you will not knit in turn, then start again in the other direction, and so on until you reach the turn of the ninth pimple.
Now we're going to make a raise. Knit the ninth peg and then pass the yarn around the tenth which already has two threads. Pass these two threads together over the new thread and the pimple. Take another turn on the tenth pimple and pass the bottom yarn over the pimple and then go back to the ninth pimple and knit to the third pimple where you will do the same as for the tenth pimple. Continue in this way until you have no more than two yarns on any of the spikes.
Knit as in step 4 all around the knit until you reach the length of your foot. You can put your foot through the knitting to test or use a sock as a reference. When the length almost corresponds to the length of your foot, repeat steps 5 and 6 but this time decreasing to the fourth peg. That is to say that you do your last half turn of decreasing on the fourth pimple and that you normally knit the eighth pimple and then the ninth pimple with these 2 yarns to start the increase.
Cut the thread keeping 30 cm. Pass it through the needle and then pass the needle through the spikes from bottom to top to bring out the loops. Start with the first loop, then the twenty-fourth, the second, the twenty-third and so on. Once removed from the knitting, pull the thread to tighten the stitches. Turn the sock inside out and tie a double knot on the wrong side. Cut off the excess thread.
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