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.
Felicia, do you have a video showing how to do the cam draft on two needles.