making socks on a loom knitting ring

[Chas]

Have you got a link, of any sort, for that, Alan, please? I have the Knifty Knitter and have managed to turn out some reasonable cuffs, but your model looks to be a bit more versatile.

Regards

Chas

[brewerpaul]

Have you got a link, of any sort, for that, Alan, please? I have the Knifty Knitter and have managed to turn out some reasonable cuffs, but your model looks to be a bit more versatile.

Regards

Chas

KB Sock Loom which can be bought from their site or places like JoAnn's Fabrics. I think Amazon might have the too.

http://www.knittingboard.com/product_p/sock%20loom.htm

[sydnie7]

I've used the Knifty Knitter -- a lot -- and frankly, it was easier to just learn to knit! The whole wrap-and-hook business is really tedious, even with relatively large yarn and round plastic loom. Anything small enough to make decent kilt hose strikes me as tedious to the Nth degree, not to mention the difficulty of wrapping around those small, closely spaced posts.

[brewerpaul]

I've used the Knifty Knitter -- a lot -- and frankly, it was easier to just learn to knit! The whole wrap-and-hook business is really tedious, even with relatively large yarn and round plastic loom. Anything small enough to make decent kilt hose strikes me as tedious to the Nth degree, not to mention the difficulty of wrapping around those small, closely spaced posts.

Yes it can be a bit tedious and time consuming. Add big hands like I have and it can be a chore. The plus side is it takes up some of my winter evenings quite nicely. In time perhaps learning to knit will be the ticket but till then......

[Alan H]

Good information here, thanks everybody.....Yeah, Sydnie, probably easier to just learn how to knit, but I suspect that my good intentions here will wind up making me two pairs of hose cuffs and then the thing will be resigned to the back of some drawer.

[Friday]

As Steve says one question is the number of stitches per inch that your knitter can make. Sock yarn if frequently knit at around 7 to 9 stitches per inch, or more. If you have a 18 inch calf you will be working with about 130 or more stitches to go over your leg.

It appears that the model show only has about 60 stitches available. I have seen other models that have more stitches available.

As a knitter I believe that the increased versatility of knitting needles may well be worth the extra effort, and I don't think that it is much more effort.