I find that they pair up pretty decent though. As tension varies between the colors they move from the inside to the outside of the sock. With two different colors you end up with a random pattern. I use two strands and let them ply together as they knit. The yarn is a light weight 80% wool and 20% nylon. The next picture is the main part of the machine and two large cones of yarn. In this set up I will knit two stitches then purl one, a fairly common pattern in sock knitting. ![]() The leg and top of the foot of this sock will be ribbed. The large round device with slots machined into it is called a ribber and is part of the actual machine. ![]() The darning needle I use to close the toe is stuck in the spool of cord. It also holds the stitches while the toe is stitched closed. The small spool of cotton cord will be used to remove the sock when complete. I use this to hold loose tails of yarn when I begin and end my knitting. These are used to move stitches around or help pick up a dropped stitch. Beside them are two wooden handles one with a hook and latch needle inserted into it the other just a portion of the hook and no latch. They will hang from the knitting to aid in creating the heel and toe. The forks only have two teeth and they are bent just beyond 90°. I filled the pipes with lead and attached forks to them. Mine are made with copper pipes and forks. Beside the boxes of needles are three heel weights. This keeps tension on the stitches while the needles move through them. Above those is a pile of weights and a buckle that will attach them to the sock. I use this to start the knitting before I begin using the actual sock yarn. One has yarn knitted onto it from the last sock I made. Some extruded mesh, mine are garlic bags. Two sizes of hook and latch inserts that I'll call needles because they do the knitting. In the first picture you will see the tools. If you prefer not to read my rather detailed instructions the videos may be more to your liking. I put 12 videos together and put them at the end of my Instructable. You don't have to watch them if my instructions are enough for you. If you're having trouble following the process the videos will help enormously. I'll try to explain in the picture sections exactly what to do. It requires lots of explaining, many pictures and quite a bit of video instruction. Making a sock is a very involved process. The restoration story is for another day. The owner said it was handed down 4 generations but hadn't been used for more than 50 years. I left my number and actually got a call back. ![]() I told her to ask if she would be willing to part with it. She felt that the owner may be ill as well. I talked with our server, she said the owner had begun selling some of her collection of oddities. With all the other bits and bobs in this place I'm surprised I saw it. It was dumped into a wooden box that sat as a decoration, in a restaurant my wife and I liked to stop at now and then. I found it in pieces, seized up and rusty. The machine I'm using for this Instructable is a Canadian machine. Though its a machine, its far from automatic. In fact with a lot of practice you can make flat pieces that can be grafted together to make sweaters and such. You can make socks, scarves, hats and mittens. ![]() The CSM, or circular sock machine is a knitting machine that knits in the round.
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