How to knit openwork socks with knitting needles?

Many women do not want to knit socks, calling this activity boring and monotonous. Of course, everyone is used to stereotypes: a two-in-two elastic band and a stocking pattern. But today, craftswomen can be pleased with a variety of patterns and ways of knitting these things. Let's take a closer look at how to knit openwork socks with knitting needles.

Preparatory stage

For the product you will need one hundred grams (410 m) of Drops Fabel brand yarn or other yarn, where the wool will be 75 percent and the rest is polyamide. And take for convenience 6 stocking needles number 2.5. We will knit openwork socks with knitting needles for size 39-40, so calculate the density. In this case, the ten-centimeter segment accounts for 34 rows and 26 loops of the front surface.

You collect 66 loops and knit two circles with a facial pattern (all rows are knitted with facial loops). Next comes the gum in six circles. Unlike warm socks, the rise of the lower leg is decorated with an openwork pattern, and not a two-by-two elastic band. In this case, the foot surface, toe and back of the product will be knitted with the front surface.

Therefore, on fifteen loops it is knitted only with an elastic band, and the remaining 51 - with a facial pattern. Each front row decreases evenly until there are 41 stitches left on the knitting needles. From this moment, openwork knitting begins.

Fishnet socks: gum and lace patterns

Two socks will be used for socks: a 1 x 1 elastic band and an openwork pattern. With an elastic band, everything is clear: alternate the front and back loops. Openwork pattern fits in the following pattern:

1. Two front (L), two loops knitted together front (2 PL), yarn between the two loops (N), N, remove the loop as the front, knit 1 L and stretch it through the removed (PL), 3 L, 2 PL, N , N, PLC, 3 L, 2 PL, N, N, PLC, 2 L.
2. All loops are facial.
3. 1 L, 2 PL, 1 L, N, N, 1 L, PLS, 1 L, 2 PL, 1 L, N, N, 1 L, PLS, 1 L, 2 PL, 1 L, N, N, 1 L, PLC, 1 L.
4. All loops are facial.
5. 2 PL, 2 L, N, H, 2 L, remove the first loop as the front one, knit two loops together front and stretch it through the removed one (L 2 HP), 2 L, N, N, 2 L, L 2 HP, 2 L, H, H, 2 L, PLC.
   
6. All loops are facial.
7. N, PLS, 3 L, 2 PL, N, N, PLS, 3 L, 2 PL, N, N, PLS, 3 L, 2 PL, N.
8. All loops are facial.
9. 1 L, N, PLS, 1 L, 2 PL, 1 L, N, N, PLS, 1 L, 2 PL, 1 L, N, N, PLS, 1 L, 2 PL, 1 L, N.
10. All loops are facial.
11. H, 2 L, L 2 HP, 1 L, H, H, 2 L, L 2 HP, 1 L, H, H, 2 L, L 2 HP, 1 L, H, 1 L.
12. All loops are facial.

Basic knitting

Openwork socks fit in a pattern of sixteen centimeters. Next, you need to leave fifteen loops for the elastic and 8 p. On each side of the heel, which consists of a facial pattern. Knitting is carried out according to the standard pattern: six centimeters of lifting, then the loops are divided into three knitting needles (the main thing is that there are the same number of loops on the side) and only the central ones are knitted, and the reduction is due to the side ones.

Further, openwork socks with knitting needles are knitted with openwork and facial smoothness on the heel side. If, when trying on a product, it reaches the height of the little finger, you begin to reduce the toe, which consists of a facial pattern. Knit up to ten loops, which are then pulled together with a thread. The next sock is created as well.

In principle, two rules are characteristic of openwork products: the yarn is taken thinner, the elastic band 1 x 1 alternates. You can take any openwork pattern. To knit openwork socks with knitting needles the first time, try knitting three patterns on a test square and see your density visually. Then your product will be elegant and beautiful!