Mary Beth Temple

Comparing Three Sock Toes

Mary Beth Temple
Duration:   3  mins

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As you continue on in your sock knitting journey, you may discover other types of toes to knit than the classic wedge toe that you may have learned on.

Watch as Mary Beth Temple compares three different styles of knitting sock toes – wedge, star, and round – so you can more easily choose the one you might like to try next. It is easy to switch out toe styles in a top down sock, buy as different styles have different heights it is good to pick your knitted sock toe before hand so you can make an accommodations you need to on the foot length.

To customize your socks even further, check out this video compilation of Sock Knitting Tricks.

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Hi, I'm Mary Beth Temple. And in this video, we're going to talk about three different toes that you can use when you are knitting your top down sock. Now, no matter what your pattern says, if you find one is more comfortable for you or easier for you to knit with a little bit of fiddling, you can switch out and put in the toe that you like. So let's look at the three most common toes. The first is the wedge toe.

This is the classic toe. This is the one most of us learn. The first. It's seamless. We accomplish it by taking four decreases in every decrease round and then we do some kitchen or stitch on the top and finish that off and that gives us our little seamless finish at the top.

Now, this is a short tow box and if you are a person that has either a wide toe box, like your, your feet are kind of wide at that side or you have a toe or two that are particularly long, it might not be the most comfortable one to wear. So here are a couple of other options. Now, here we have the star toe and the round toe. Now, obviously, when you knit your socks, you're not gonna put these pearl rows in. I just put them in there.

So you could get a visual marker of how the length of the toe box changes. So for the star toe, we have four evenly spaced decreases that are right leaning that we do every other round and then eventually every round. So what you get is this little spiral pattern on the top. Now, this is a longer toe box. It avoids the whole doing the kitchen or stitch at the end and is more comfortable for a lot of people.

This is a toe that I use a lot because for me, it's super comfortable. The other one that I like to do and again, you might, if you're knitting a sock for somebody with longer feet is the round toe. Now, you can see, look at the difference between the height of the toe on the round toe, the star toe and the wedge toe. So this has the longest area of decrease. It's a very slow decrease, it starts very subtly and then decreases more rapidly as you get to the top.

And is another one in which you can avoid the kitchen or stitch at the end. So for people with long feet or long toes, the round toe might be the way to go. You don't get the spiral pattern that you get on the star toe. But if you use it on a urine with some color flex like I did, you almost can't see the decreases. So it's a pretty subtle end, no matter which toe you choose to work on your top down sock.

I hope you pick the one that is the most comfortable and the easiest one for you to learn.

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