Sock knitting on LK150 for 5 year old with no side seam technique
Sock knitting on LK150 for 5-year-old with no side seam technique
Last time, we showed how to knit women’s socks on an LK150 with 2 side seams. See the link here for Part 1, and here for Part 2. Here we are going to show you a different construction of socks knitting. We knit the whole round instead of half of the stitches, and there is only one side seam on each sock.
The toe will need to be closed with a Kitchener stitch, and the ribbing is done by hand knit. Optionally, you can use mock ribbing, hand-manipulated ribbing (latch-up the purl stitches every other needle), or knit the ribbing on a standard gauge knitting machine with a ribber.
Construction of the socks
From the picture below, you can see the socks are knitted in one piece except the ribbing. Heel and toe short-rows are on one side, so there will be only one side seam. You can use the no-sew technique as in the video below or just sew the seam by hand.
The loops for no-sew technique yarn is on the backside of the knitting.
Front side of the sock. The short-rows are on one side. The second sock will have sort-rows on the opposite side.
Back side of the knitting. The loops are from the side seam yarn that will be pulled to close the tube.
After pulling the side seam yarn (the loops)
Watch the video of machine knitting socks on an LK150
Advantages of the sock knitting in one piece
If you use self-striping yarn, you can see it creates continuous strips. That is one advantage of this sock construction.
And you do not have to hand sew the side seam. It saves time and makes it look neat (fewer mistakes).