Slip all 16 (18, 22) instep sts onto 1 needle.
Next row, k across 5 (5, 6) heel sts.
Using another needle, k across the other 5 (5, 6) heel sts.
Using this same needle, pick up 10 (11, 12) sts along the side of the heel.
Using another needle, k across the instep sts.
Using this same needle, pick up 10 (11, 12) sts along the side of the heel and, using the same needle, k across 5 (5, 6) heel sts.
The middle of the heel is now the beginning of the round.
There should be 15 (16, 18) sts on the 1st needle, 16 (18, 22) sts on the 2nd needle (instep), and 15 (16, 18) sts on the 3rd needle.
Ugh. It might take me until 2013 to figure out how to do this when I'm already knitting on the round.
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Socks are hard even if the pattern name says "easy."
maybe try DPN? I think I get it, but I don't think I could do it in the round. I always go cross-eyed the first few times I read a new pattern. Then I start sloooowly stitch by stitch and, after undoing things 5 more times, finally get it. Good luck! I can't wait to see the result!
I never knit socks. Enough said.
OK, so I have knit only one pair of socks, so my experience is limited, but this is what it sounds like. Sounds like you have turned the heel of the sock and you're ready to pickup the gusset and knit down to the toe. If that assumption is true, basically you are being asked to
(1) redistribute your existing stitches onto three needles such that the back of the sock is between two needles (i.e. you are establishing a new start of round), and
(2) rejoin the heel flap to the rest of the sock to start knitting down.
If that is true, watch this video starting at the 3m30s mark and that should help a lot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnObMmtN0G4
Also here is a video on picking up stitches. Like many things in knitting, it is confusing at first but once you actually do it, I PROMISE you that picking up stitches is easy
http://www.knittinghelp.com/video/play/pick-up-and-knit-stitches
I hope this helps. If you want someone to hold your hand, you could bring Henry over to play with E&A after gymnastics today, about 5 and I could show you. (or we could find another time that would work)
Well, I'm still on the ribbing of my socks so I'm of no use. But you have managed to scare me a bit. :-\
They should not be able to say a pattern is "easy" if it is not easy. Grumble.
I was thinking of trying to switch to DPNs just for this one part. It's the trying to figure out how to do those instructions on the circular that is messing with my head.
Rachele - I'd love to take you up on that offer but today is bad for us. (Really bad. Hen is in anything-can-set-me-off meltdown mode.) Perhaps a craft night is in order?
Crikeys, Betty - If you don't do socks, what the hell am I doing trying to knit them?
Oh goodness, I can't believe you're not using DPNs for what you've done so far! Magic looping (is that what you're doing) is really tedious for socks.
I am pretty free on Sunday. If not Sunday, we can work out a night next week. I'm hosting some neighborhood mamas at my house on Thursday for a knit night 8:30-10:30 and you are very welcome to come to that (even if you are over your gusset hurdle by then :) )
Over my hurdle, you crack me up. I'm shelving that project for the next couple of days to calm my nerves and starting a new one on regular old needles. I just need to learn the box stitch to do it. Yippee!
Here's the sock tutorial I used: http://www.knittingonthenet.com/patterns/sockschevron.htm
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