Want to make a sock on your CSM but don’t want to use your CSM Ribber or make it Cuff Down? NO PROBLEM!

Introducing my Toe Up Mock Rib Hung Hem Shortie Socks featuring the newly created TRINE TOE UP SOCK METHOD.

This Toe Up pattern is your solution to not being comfortable with closing (using Kitchener) the Toe of a Cuff Down Sock.

This pattern is the Toe Up version of my July 2020 announced Cuff Down Mock Rib Hung Hem Shortie Socks. These easy to make, speedy form fitted socks offering a new approach for a shortie sock. With a written step by step eight page pattern that matches the detailed video. All links are noted below.

• The VIDEO of this pattern is SILENT - in order to reach more persons - those with reduced or limited hearing and those English as a second language.

Written eight page pattern https://www.csmlove.com/s/csm_tu_mockribhhss1.pdf

A video has been created to match these written instructions https://youtu.be/ONk79SHu0Cs

ALL OF MY SOCK VIDEOS CAN ALSO BE FOUND ON MY WEBSITE UNDER THE MENU “My Patterns and VIDEOS” in the Socks-Cuff Down or Socks Toe Up page - https://www.csmlove.com/sockstu

PLAN:
-Cast-on with sock weight scrap yarn
-Pre-Toe (+3 integrated wraps)
-Toe
-Post-Toe(+3 integrated wraps)
-HANG TOE (work one row)
-Foot 45 Rows
-DEEP HEEL +4 needles* (finished one L/R row less than started)
-Pre-Heel 10 rows
-Lifeline row placement/Mock Rib pattern upgrade
-CUFF 30 rows
-Scrap yarn

GENERAL INFO:
For best success, take each step one at a time however work each step clearly knowing where to be for the next part.

-This method is the same regardless to what CSM is used, higher or lower slot count cylinders might need more or less additional needles for the DEEPER HEEL/Toe Hang depending on fiber and machine settings.
-This pattern uses a PRE and POST Toe series of rows to add the fabric needed to nicely hang the toe once knitted.
-A Deeper Heel creates more of a cupping effect allowing shorter socks to stay put.
-In my opinion and testing, adding a PRE-HEEL (segment between cuff and heel on cuff down socks) tends to better fit the heel and therefore stay in place.
-When we use the word “crank” we mean turn the handle of the machine (usually to the other side of the machine).
-I highly recommend using the Heel Spring throughout for a better fit.
-In my opinion one can make this sock without Mock Rib, however I feel a plain knitted sock without any Mock (or real Ribbing) doesn’t fit as nicely.
-Scrap sock weight yarn is defined here as any fiber (acrylic or not) which is the same weight/diameter as your sock yarn.
-The Heel and the Toe are both worked on the side of the machine closest to me (between the 9-6-3 o’clock positions).
-ANY cuff can be worked on this pattern however for this pattern I chose a OFF MACHINE HUNG HEM which will be demonstrated in the video on how to make and finish.
-The No-Wrap Heel and Toe method were used - with slight differences on where to work final Heel row and where to decrease the Toe to.
-How deep or narrow you choose to work the heel/toe and how close to average heel marks you work during the decrease can be adapted for unique Heel anatomy.
-If for whatever reason this pattern does not work for you to hang your toe - CERTAINLY ADJUST WITH AN ADDITIONAL WRAP ROW using the same extra WRAP ROWS on the PRE-TOE as the POST. This was successfully tested multiple times on a 54 and 72 slot cylinder.

THE BEST THING TO CONSIDER WHEN WORKING ANY SOCK RECIPE IS THAT YOU CAN EASILY PLUG YOUR OWN PREFERRED CUFF, HEEL METHODS - IF THAT’S YOUR PREFERENCE - so if you love the Toe Up approach but want a different Cuff you CAN!

This VIDEO REVIEWS:
-The sock as it comes off the machine, the finished sock with detailed view, how to make and how to finish.
-The sock diagram and Cast On Bonnet review of a cuff down versus toe up sock.
-Casting on with a Universal Cast On Bonnet.
-Clock point references.
-Easy to identify sock section labels so that one can fast forward or rewind to any one part as needed.
-Recommendation and use of the Chambord CSM SweetSpot Heel Fork & Weight and the Chambord CSM Tip Toe Tool Set.
-Adding one cylinder needle at 3pm & 9pm for DEEP HEEL SETUP.
-Hanging specific nearby bar stitch on each newly added cylinder needle for the DEEP HEEL.
-A Heel/Toe using the No Wrap method.
-Ensuring the final Heel Left and Right rows are one row less than heel start to reduce heel intersection holes.
-One demonstrated way to fix an unknitted (but not dropped) cylinder stitch - 1 by lifting lower stitch over top.
-How I separate the scrap from two points on the finished sock.
-How I finish this Mock Rib Toe Up sock with a manual OFF MACHINE HUNG HEM CUFF.

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