Workshop: MUMTU Socks Pt6: Toes

1. Intro, Items Needed, Stitches Used
2. Gauge, Measurements, Primary Stitch Count
3. Orientation, Glossary, Visualizing Magic Loop
4. Pack Kit, Cast On
5. Round 1
6. Toes (You are here!)
7. Foot, Gusset
8. Heel Extension
9. Heel Flap
10. Leg & Cuff, Bind Off
11. Charts for Customizing Your Fit

STEP 6: Toes

If you are already familiar with how to do toe increases when knitting socks from the toe up, here is the basic instruction for this pattern:

• Round 1: Needle 1: *K2, M1L, Knit to 2 stitches before end of sock, M1R, K2.*
  Repeat for Needle 2.
• Round 2: Knit all.
• Repeat these two rounds until the total number of stitches for each sock equals your Primary Stitch Count. (Half on each needle.) Cut the reinforcing thread.
  

If you have never knit toe increases on socks being worked from the toe up, here is a more detailed breakdown:

Round 1:

• Starting from Neutral Position, pick up working yarn for Sock 1
  
• Knit 2 stitches
• M1L as follows:
  
  See the bar between the 2nd and 3rd stitches (photo below)?
  
  You need to mount it on your left needle, with the tip of the needle entering the loop from the front and coming out the back.
  
  I find this easiest if I use my right needle to help me, like this:
  
  
  When you've picked up the bar properly, it will look like this:
  
  Knit the bar through the back loop:
  
  
• Knit until 2 stitches before the end of the sock.
  
  
  That's the bar, ready for your M1R!
  
  
• M1R by picking up the bar and mounting it on your left needle so the tip of the needle enters the loop from the back and exits through the front.
  
  
  Knit the bar through the front loop.
  
  It can be a little tricky to insert the needle for this knit stitch. It helps me to insert the right needle as if to purl, first, and to tease the picked-up bar out away from the needle a bit... then hold the stitch out while I move the right needle to insert it for the knit. (Sorry I didn't take a picture of this.)
  
  
• Knit 2 (This completes the first half of the round for Sock 1.)
  
  
• Drop working yarn for Sock 1 and pick up working yarn for Sock 2. Repeat the same stitch sequence—Repeat the same sequence—*K2, M1L, Knit to 2 stitches before end of sock, M1R, K2.* (This completes the first half of the round for Sock 2.)
  
  
  
• Turn your work to Neutral Position...
  
  
  ...and adjust the needles for knitting the next half of the round.
  
  
  
• Repeat the increase sequence—*K2, M1L, Knit to 2 stitches before end of sock, M1R, K2.*—for each sock, being sure to change working yarn when you move between socks. (This completes your first increase round.)
  

Round 2: Knit all for the entire round. (Don’t forget to change working yarn as you move between socks.) Remember, knitting an entire round means knitting around both needles: knitting the first half of Sock 1, the first half of Sock 2, turning the work, knitting the second half of Sock 2 and then the second half of Sock 1.

Repeat these two rounds until the total number of stitches for each sock equals your Primary Stitch Count. Half are on each needle. (So if your primary stitch count is 64, then 32 stitches will be on Needle 1 and 32 on Needle 2 for each sock.)


Cut the reinforcing thread once you reach your primary stitch count.

Now is a good time to snug up the loose cast-on edge at the tail, if you haven't already.


Now is also a good time to tuck in that pesky tail!

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