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Making a Baby Sock

This is a good way to learn how to make a flat sock on the machine. Even if you don't have a baby to wear it, give it a try.

Suggestion Tension: 6 stockinette, 3/3 ribbing
on the standard gauge machine. Gauge isn't all
that important as long as you pretty much use regular
standard machine sweater yarn that gives you 7 sts,
10 rows per inch at tension 7 (or thereabouts).

Cast on 34 stitches for a 1x1 rib (needles 17 - 17)
RC 0 tension 3/3: Rib 30 rows.
Transfer stitches to main bed.

RC 0, carriage on right (COR) tension 6 knit 16 rows.
End with COR.

START HEEL SHAPING.
Set carriage to hold.
Place the 17 stitches on the left side of 0 to hold. (see photo 1)

Photo 1

Use a claw weight under the stitches in working position. You may have to move them up once or twice as your fabric starts to cup.

Now you'll be working on the right side of the bed only (on the needles RIGHT 1 TO RIGHT 17)
*Short row for heel by placing 1 stitch NEXT to the carriage in hold EVERY row until 6
stitches remain in work. (see Photo 2 which shows edge of carriage on the right & the 6 sts in the middle still in
work). Notice how close my claw weight is to the bed?

Photo 2

You are short rowing each side of these needles on the right side of the bed, 1 stitch each side every other row (or 1 on the right when carriage is on the right then 1 on the left when carriage is on the left.

Short row back by putting 1 stitch opposite the carriage back into work position and wrap the last working needle on the other end. Keep going until all the needles are back in work. So now, with carriage on the right you will push 1 needle on the LEFT back into work and you'll be wrapping the last stitch in hold on the RIGHT! Keep doing this until all the needles are back in work. Take the carriage off hold and knit 2 rows plain across all needles.

In photo 3 you can see I'm finished and the heel has cupped under the needles in work. The arrows point to where I wrapped the stitches.

Photo 3

INSTEP AND TOE
Set carriage OFF hold.
RC 00 Tension 6, COR, knit 13 rows.   End with COL.

SHAPE TOE:
Short row exactly the same way you did the heel (start at *)
ONLY THIS TIME YOU ARE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE
OF THE NEEDLE BED.    Short row in until 6 stitches
remain and then reverse short row back out until all are back
in work just as before. See Photo 4 (needles are set up ready
to start toe. Heel is on right. Claw weight is holding the stitches in work for me).

    Photo 4

Take carriage off hold and knit 1 row over all needles.

Put needles on left side back in hold, put carriage in hold and take the
other side off on waste yarn. Put the carriage back off hold and take the other side off on waste yarn so you have 2 separate sections of 17 needles each on waste yarn.

Kitchener stitch toe seam (all the stitches on waste yarn) or rehang right sides together and latch tool bind off.

The last photo shows how the sock will be seamed and also Photo 6 shows the top and bottom of the toe on waste yarn. Kitchener or latch tool toe before you mattress stitch the seam. Seam should be on the inside of the leg.

Make another sock just like the first only reverse the shaping so that both seams will be inside the leg. Don't forget to fold the cuff when you mattress stitch so that the seam is on the inside half of the cuff and on the outside on the other half of the cuff.

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