………Sock Scarves (part 2)
6. After you have knitted a series of heels and toes end with knitting a toe. Knit a few rows of waste yarn and remove it from the sock machine. You will have something that looks like this:
7. I turn the whole thing inside out so that I can weave in ends as well as close the foot by grafting on the wrong side. Here:
For handknitting I close the foot from the right side of the fabric with the knitting still on the needles. With most traditional sock patterns you close the toe at the tip of the toe. Since I’m doing short row toes I close the toe at the ball of the foot instead. You graft it the same way but you have more stitches and the grafting is under your foot when you are done. It looks like this on the needles:
8. I usually steam block my scarves to straighten them out and make all the heels and toes lie flat.
That’s it! Its fun to dress up your sock scarves with beads on the picot hem or change colors randomly or at the heels and toes. You can make them wider by using a larger csm cylinder, and longer or shorter by changing your row count. Its fun to experiment with the way the heels and toes create curves in the scarf. Instructions will be on my website under Patterns. Here’s a few from my collection: