If you’ve followed our SweetGeorgia YouTube channel and blog over the years, you’ll see that I have cranked a number of socks on my circular sock knitting machine (CSM). But, I’ve never actually shown you how to close the toes on these socks. So, in this video, I am going to show you how to finish the toes on a CSM sock.
I started off as a hand-knitter, and when I learned how to graft toes, I learned how to graft from two knitting needles. Each knitting needle holding stitches on the top and bottom, and then grafting between these needles. So, naturally when I first started grafting the toes knit on a CSM, I grafted them the same way I had always done. I would pick up half of the stitches onto one fine double-pointed needle, and then the other half onto a second double-pointed needle. It was only in maybe the last half-year that I learned we don’t have to do that. We can actually graft directly from the waste yarn of a cranked sock.
There is definitely more than one way to graft and finish the toes of a sock… this is just one of the ways I’ve learned and I’m happy to share it with you!
In this episode
- I’m wearing the Sailing Sweater design by Beckie Paul, knit in SweetGeorgia Mohair Silk DK yarn in Arbutus.
- I crank my socks on my Erlbacher Speedster Circular Sock Machine. Once cranked, I then keep all of my grafting supplies and socks-to-graft in my Lexi Case by Muud.
If you’re interested in knitting CSM socks using handspun yarn, visit my Knitting CSM Socks with Handspun post for more info.
