This sock pattern is so not automatic. It is all manual. These directions should make sense on any model double bed superba/white and on the old swiss magic double bed and it’s sisters.
You can also do this on the japanese machines with a ribber attached, but I worked on a superba.
Also, CSM crankers will recognize this sock- many make a version like this all the time, as it is a classy sock, and it does not involve using the Circular sock machine ribber.
These directions are for a women's medium sock. It is based on a 6 needle repeat, so add or remove 'ribs' in pairs to make huge or tiny socks.
Cast on waste yarn:
This is an Every other needle zigzag caston.
Beds are full pitch: set with needles opposite, and stay this way throughout the sock. On the front bed, starting at L18, raise every other needle into working position to, and including, R17. Do the same on the back bed, except go from L17 to R18.
I set the bed spacing to ‘4’.
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Carriage on right. Set both carriages to knit, and tension 1. knit one row.
Hang the comb, add some weight, and set both carriages to circular. Change to Tension 4 on both carriages. Knit 3 rows, ending carriage on right.
Now, raise back bed needles L18 and front bed needle R18 into work position. Knit 10 or more rows, ending carriage on right.
take waste yarn out of feeder, and knit one row with ravel cord. Remember: one full row is one row on the front and one row on the back! End carriage on right.
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| What the mock rib looks like |
Here is where the sock really starts:
Now, closed caston for top of sock- (This edge will be knitted to the inside of the sock to make the hem top.)
Thread the main yarn in the tensions and pull down yarn so that you a couple yards of yarn to work with and the yarn is slack.
Working by hand, from right to left across the front bed,using e-wrap in the hooks, raise each needle so that the ravel cord stitch is below the latch, e-wrap in the hook, and pull the e-wrap through the ravel cord stitch. Make the new stitches loose. Then, work the same left to right across the back bed,
Now, on both beds, pull up into working position the rest of the empty needles to make the circular mock rib set-up. On the back bed,starting from the left, the set up is two needles in work, one out, then 5 in work with one out of work across the bed, ending with 3 needles in work. On the front bed, it is reversed- with a set of 3 needles in work on the left, and a set of 2 needles in work on the right. All the way around, you have 5 needles in work and one needle out of work,
Thread the work yarn through the carriage yarn feeder and pull the slack yarn back through the tensions, See that your carriages are set to knit circular, Set the tension on both carriages to your garment tension- (I used 5.1on both dials)
Set RC to 0.
Carefully knit row one. (one row = one pass to the left PLUS one pass to the right. And One row means the row counter counts “2”.
Knit to RC 60 (that is 30 rows). should end carriage on right.
You can now either hang the hem, or you can continue with the sock knitting and sew the hem by hand when the sock is off the machine.
I hang the hem- but the first couple times it takes some concentration. If you are planning on making lots of socks, make the investment in practicing. It will pay off quickly. However, the sock police are not making stops for hand sewn hems.
Mark row for hem now, if you are going to hand sew later:
With a separate short piece of matching yarn (you will need a piece about 18 inches long) you are going to hand knit every other needle, first on the front bed working right to left, and then on the back bed left to right. I do this on the second needle of the sets of two, and on the 2nd and 4th of the sets of 5, and on the 2nd of the sets of three. tuck the ends of the short piece of yarn out of the way inside the sock or down between the beds.
If you are going to hang the hem, drop the ribber bed, and take off any weights. You may want to put some very small weight on the center back and center front, just to assure the stitches stay comfortably in the hooks while you are hanging the hem. You will actually be hanging the long loops between the stitches of the e-wrap cast-on row. I start with the stitches and needles on the front bed, because they are the harder ones for me to see. I use a hook to grab the waste yarn below the working yarn caston row and raise it up so I can see the caston row, and while I have a section raised , I put the loop on the corresponding needle. Work across the front bed, and then do the back bed. You should have added a loop on every other needle around.
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| The black thread is my ravel cord. The red is my waste yarn. I have pushed up the e-wrap cast on row with my fingers. You can see the nice big loops that will make the knit in hem. |
Add back your weights if they needed.
Make sure that your needles are lined up in the right position, and resume knitting with the carriages.
Now knit to RC180. This will be a total of 60 more rows. (Row counter was 60 when you resumed, and the 120 added to the row counter indicates 60 full rows.) End carriage on right.
On the back bed, put the empty needles into work position.
(If you do not want the top of the foot in mock rib, do the same on the front bed. Otherwise replace the out of work needles on the front bed when you set up to knit the toe.)
Knit 10 rows (Row Counter advances by 20 to 200.)
Turn heel on the back bed. Set front bed carriage to (0) and back bed carriage to V. Pull out to non working position one needle on the carriage side each row for 23 rows. On row 24, pull out one needle on the carriage side, and push the inner two hold position needles back into work. Repeat row 24 until all needles are back in work. When you no longer have two needles to push back into work position, manually place the remaining needle back to regular work position and put the stitch back in the hook. If you have to make another row on the back bed to get back to circular knitting, you can loop the working yarn into the hook of the left front bed needle before knitting across, to help close the hole. (Fudge note: I don’t count rows. When there are no longer 2 needles out of work on either side, If carriage is on right, I put the needles back in work position and resume circular knitting. If carriage is on left, and there is a needle still out of work on left, I put the working yarn in the left end needle hook on the front bed before knitting to the right on the last heel row, and with carriage on right, set up to resume circular.)
Set row counter to 0.
Knit foot. Carriages set to circular- knit 59 rows - row counter will advance by 118.
put remaining empty needles in work. knit one row. row counter reads 120.
Turn toe, following directions for turning heel.
When toe is complete,, knit one complete row.
Knit one complete row with ravel cord, and knit several rows with waste yarn.
You can immediately set up for the second sock, by transferring every other stitch to an adjacent needle. Start with the 3rd stitch from the left on the back bed, or the 3rd from the right on the front bed. Remember that the back bed set up starts with 2 needles in work, then every other needle across, and the front bed ends with 2 needles in work.
Knit another 5 or ten rows and begin the second sock with the ravel cord, and the closed cast on for the sock top.
Kitchener the toes and put them on. Take a 'sockie' for your ravelry post.
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