I am a Sock Knitting Machine

Let’s talk about the sock knitting machine again! Ever since I learned to hand knit socks in 2006, I have been in love with sock knitting. And since I received my Erlbacher Speedster CSM in July last year, I have been obsessively learning how to knit socks using this machine.

I set myself a path for learning how to knit socks on the circular sock knitting machine, and over the past eight months, I’ve developed a bit of a system for making one kind of sock. My goal was first to learn how to make a sock, then the goal was to get really really solid and confident at making this ONE kind of sock. For today’s Taking Back Friday, I want to document my system for knitting socks right now, as it is… because things are going to change soon.

IN THIS EPISODE

• what I’m wearing in today’s video: I’m wearing the Beekeeper Cardigan designed by Marie Greene of Olive Knits, knit in SweetGeorgia BFL+Silk DK in Cayenne.
• what I mention in today’s video: Here are links to items shared in the vlog…
  • Yarns I’ve been knitting with: SweetGeorgia Tough Love Sock, Mohair Silk Sock, and a Double Sock Yarn Blank.
  • Learn to dye your own self-striping yarn at my Dyeing Complex Colour course at the School of SweetGeorgia (SOS). At the School, you ca also find Rachel Smith’s Spin to Knit Socks course.
  • Katrina Stewart at Crafty JAK’s Wild Blossom yarn in the Lava Love colourway.
  • SockMachineStuff’s charts at Etsy, showing the number of foot rows required.
  • Tip Toe Tool from Chambord CSM.
  • Hannah on Instagram @thegirlwhowearswoolsocks and the sock fitting formula.
  • How to video for Grafting / Kitchener Stitch.
  • The other tool I recently acquired is ALSO from Dave Chambord and it’s called the Sweet Spot Heel Fork. It’s a V-shaped hook that you use instead of the three separate heel forks and then you attach the heel weight at the bottom of the hook. Theoretically this means that you shouldn’t need to move your heel fork as often and that it just makes the process quicker and easier.