Kelley's Sock Class - Gusset, Part 1

Kelley Petkun from Knit Picks teaches you how to knit the gusset of a sock. Follow along with her Sock Class and learn how to knit a sock! To join a knitalong, go to http://community.knitpicks.com/group/sockkal

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[mchllwoods]

I was wondering. I knitted my first pair of socks using ur tutorial. Now I bought the book, Toe-Up Socks For Everyone by Wendy D. Johnson. In these instructions it always says 2 create a gusset but I don't like 2 create a gusset. I'd rather leave the instep stitches and create my heel flap and heel turn. Can that be done w/ toe-up socks? I haven't tried it yet but I'm about 2 w/ some practice socks.

[knitpicks]

@mchllwoods In Wendy Johnson's first book Socks From the Toe Up, she has the plain sock patterns that each feature a different heel. There is one called the Slip Stitch Heel and it looks identical to cuff down socks. However, working from the toe up you have to create the gusset first, then heel turn and then heel flap - since you are working backwards. There are also ways of using short rows to create a heel as well in her first book. Hope this helps a bit :)

[DALESPONY]

Kelley, you are a star! Thank you so much for these tutorials, I have been struggling with a sock pattern for days now, and in a few minutes, you have made the process simple, understandable and very doo able. Even if your knitting is so different to mine, I had no idea the knitters in USA knitted differently to us in the British Isles - what a treat!

[lids9able]

My socks, knitted with DPN, tend to develop "diagonally" the colums, though straight in the knitting, move on the bias for at least a couple of inches. Then they go straight. What am I doing wrong?

[artgal7]

Extremely helpful. I especially appreciated you tips on avoiding the holes along the heel flap. Thanks for a great video tutorial.

[hoppycafe]

This is extremely helpful. I might actually finish a sock now.

[sazji]

I usually knit into both sides of the "v" along the side, and then pull it closer by knitting into the back loop of those stitches the next time around. I take care of that last hole at the join exactly the same way you did. Sometimes I skip one before (the hole is almost never noticeable) to keep the numbers right, or I just take an extra one and then reduce.

[ChelaMelaMa]

this is not helpful for me. way too verbose and complicated. hard to see what is being done. maybe if I had been viewing her earlier videos, I would have been used to her way of teaching.

[maylien]

Very helpful and fun to listen to you too! I'm am just now completing my first ever pair of socks!

[ichouha]

Kelly, thank you so much!

I was wandering like a fool

in the maze of knitting of the heel.

But at last I've found this excellent skill.