Learning the CSM Ribber

I’ve been carving out some evening time to practice using the circular sock machine (CSM), and on today’s Taking Back Friday, I wanted to share with you my mountain of practice swatches, and also now my new ribbing swatches.

The last time we talked about the CSM, I had just received the machine from Erlbacher. I had set it up and was learning how to crank tubes on it as well as how to make heels. Basically I was making a lot of gauge swatches with our Tough Love Sock yarn, trying to figure out what gauge I could knit on the 60-stitch cylinder. Since then I’ve been practicing a lot of the skills and managed to actually knit a bunch of heels and toes that were not incorrect, so I wanted to share a bit of my progress! Show you the socks I’ve made so far, and also what I’ve learned about the ribber for my circular sock knitting machine.

Thank you so much for joining me here, listening to me talk about sock knitting and heels and heel flaps and 1×1 ribbing… I am so excited about it all! Follow us on Instagram @sweetgeorgia for our posts there and subscribe to our YouTube channel for further videos where I talk about the knitting and the fibre arts. See you in the next one!

IN THIS EPISODE

• what I mention in today’s vlog: Here are links to items I talk about in the video…
  • In this video, I’m working with an Erlbacher Speedster circular sock machine (CSM) with a 60 st cylinder and 60 st ribber (equal slot ribber).
  • I’m knitting my socks and samples with SweetGeorgia Tough Love Sock yarn.
  • The pair of socks that I knit uses the free Heel Tab No Shows Sock Pattern from CSMsupplies.com.
  • The books I show in the video are by Lucy E. Best: Essentials of Circular Machine Knitting and Circular Machine Knitting: Beyond Basics.
  • The technique I used for creating a selvedge with 1×1 ribbing is Juana’s CSM selvage.