Knitting socks is easier than u think. Just follow instrucctions step by step. Have patience and when in doubt just google for videos.
1.Start
Cast on X stitches; divide evenly across 3 double-pointed needles. Along tailed cast-on is recommended; it's nice, ans stretchy. Put a stitch marker at the beginning of the round. Knit a few rows of ribbing, check to make sure it's not twisted. Typically, the ribbing is done with needles a couple of sizes smaller than what you'll use for the rest of the sock.
2. The Cuff and Leg.
Keep ribbing some more. Change to your larger needles about an inch or two into your knitting. If you want to have a ribbed cuff and a plain leg. switch to stockinette stitch when you feel you've knit a deep enough cuff. Stockinette stitch provides a nice basis for colour or pattern work, but a fully ribbed leg provides a better fit. Stop when the cuff and leg are as long as you want them to be.
3. Divide for the heel & knit the heel rows.
Starting at the beginning of the round, put half the stitches on one needle. You can lose the marker at this point. Put the rest of the stitches on a stitch holder of a spare needle. The heel will be knitted back and forth on a single needle. Work in stockinette stitch (knit right side, purl wrong side) for 2/3 to 3/4 as many rows as there are heel stitches, slipping the first stitch of every row but the first. For a sock less than 50 stitches around in total, 2/3 is good; with more stitches, use 3/4 as the ratio. For example, on a 48-stitch sock with 24 heel stitches, you will work 16 rows; on an 80 stitch sock with 40 heel stitches, use 30 rows. If it's an odd number or fraction, always round up to the nearest even number.
4.Turn the Heel
Still working on the hell stitches, you're now going to reduce and turn the heel. A bit more math is required here. Divide the number of heel stitches by 3. For a 48-stitch sock, you have 24 hell stitches. This divide evenly as 8-8-8. For a 32stitch sock with 16 hell stitches, you get 5-6-5. Foundation row RS; k the first two-thirds of the stitches, SKP ( sl 1, k1, psso), turn
WS:sl 1, p the centre third, p2tog, turn
RS: sl 1, k the centre third, SKP, turn repeat these last two rows until all the stitches have been worked. The right side will be facing. Knit 1 row on all stitches. For the mathematically inclined, the number of stitches you have now is x/6+2, rounded up to an even number. On your 48 stitch sock, that's 10. On the 32 stitch sock, that's 8.
5. Shape the Gusset
If you put half of your stitches on a holder in step 3, return them to a needle. You've now got the instep stitches on one needle, and the remaining heel stitches on a second, with two selvedge edges between them. You're going to pick up stitches along those edges to form the gusset. On each side, you'll be picking half the number of heel *stitches you began with, that is one quarter of the cast-on stitches. Knit the stitches that remain on the hell. Using a new needle, pick up the required number of stitches along the first side, using the loops created by the slipping in step 2. This will be referrd to as Needle 1.
Using another new needle, knit across the instep (non-heel) stitches. This will be referred to as Needle 2. Using one more new needle, pick up the required number of stitches across the other side, using the loops created by the slipping in step 2. With this same needle, knit half of the remaining heel stitches onto this same needle. This will be referred to as Needle 3. You will now have a small number of stitches left on your needle, ready to be worked. Slide these onto Needle 1.
6. Decrease the Gusset
On the very next round, work a decrease round:Decrease Round
Needle 1: knit to last three stitches, k2tog, k1
Needle 2: knit even
Needle 3: k1 SKP, knit to end of needleAlternate decrease rounds and even rounds until you're back to X, the number of stitches you cast on originally.
7. Foot
Once you're back to the original number of stitches, X, knit until the foot of the sock measures 2 inches less then the lenght of the actual foot that will be waring the sock.
8. Decrease for the toe
Recall that the center of the round in the cen ter of the heel. make sure your stitches are distributed as follows; 1/4 of the stitches on Needle 1 starting at the center of the round, 1/2 of the stitches on Needle 2 (these are the stitches for the top of the foot), and the remaining 1/4 on Needle 3.
Work a Decrease round:
Needle 1: knit to last 3 titches, k2tog, k1
Needle 2: k1, ssk, knit to last 3 stitches, k2tog,k1
Needle 3: k1, ssk, knit to end of needle.
Work an even round.
Alternate decrease rounds and even rounds until 8 stitches remain.
9. Finish
There are many ways to finish a sock as there are to make one. which method you choose is a matter of taste, skill and patience You can reduce the toe down to 8 stitches and do a two-needle bind-off. Or reduce down to 4 stitches,cut the yarn leaving along tail, thread this tail on a yarn needle and pull the thread through the 4 stitches, pulling them tight. Or cast off both sides and sew them together.
