Silver's sock class

Hi,

This is probably the best sock tutorial out there, and if you follow it you'll end up with a sock for sure.

A big downfall of this tutorial is that the instructions are definitely for a woman's sock - casting on 64 stitches with fingering weight yarn will net you a typical ladies 7 -10 size sock. Most sock patterns for men usually have you casting on somewhere in the neighbourhood of 72 - 80 stitches depending on the yarn weight, the type of stitch you are doing and the size of your foot, but to really customize the sock you'd want to do a swatch with the yarn you intend to use, count how many stitches you get to the inch and then measure around the widest part of your foot in inches. Then cast on accordingly.

The other downfall is that Silver only gives you American needle sizes, not metric ones, and not all needles have both sizes stamped on them. That's a problem if you are buying needles from a no-service shop like Value village - so you might want to look the US sizes up on the internet first to figure out their metric equivalents..

By the way if you're are ever looking for good quality yet cheap sock yarn - check out Dressew downtown. They carry remaindered yarn for $2 a ball and every time I've been there they've had a great selection of top quality German sock yarns.

Anyway, if you are intrigued by what you see and/or need some help with something you know where I am. And don't forget about the expert knitter in your midst - Edita!

Cheers, Shawnna