For a woman, knitting becomes a very useful skill in life. For example, if anywhere in the stores there is no sweater, skirt or even coat suitable for the size or design, you can always make them yourself with the help of knitting needles and yarn from wool, acrylic or other material.
Fashion trends of late have returned to their former popularity pantyhose with a fancy pattern and stockings. The onset of winter colds is not a reason to refuse to wear fashionable clothes, because thin nylon stockings can be easily replaced with beautiful and at the same time very warm knitted golfs or stockings.
How to knit stockings with needles: features
There is a huge variety of golf and stocking, which allows girls to choose the option suitable for a certain style of dress. Colored or plain, smooth or openwork, tonic or knitted stockings made of thick wool can complement and decorate any look.
Important! Do not confuse between stockings and leggings. The second option does not have a lower part, which allows them to be worn over shoes.
Before you start knitting stockings, you need to determine the size. To do this, they recognize the diameter of the foot in its widest place (near the fingers on the "bones"). The resulting figure is multiplied by the horizontal density of knitting (the number of loops per 1 cm of the finished fabric). Typically, the horizontal density is 1.7-1.5. The resulting figure (40) will be equal to the number of loops that need to be knitted in a set of rows.
Often, needlewomen in the knitting process are faced with problems and questions that confound them. The most common are:
- Flat loops. To prevent unwanted developments, a hooked hook of the same diameter as the knitting needles will help. With the help of a hook, a deflated loop is raised as high as possible to knit it out of the broach as an ordinary air loop.
- Rough rows of front surface. You can make the front rows smoother if you knit them with a knitting needle that is less than the main ones by half the number.
- The choice of the wrong tools. The correct size of the needles is responsible for the fact that the finished thing will be beautiful and wearable. Those who tighten the loops strongly in the process need to choose finer instruments, those who are too loose - on the contrary, thick ones.
- The need to introduce a new thread. This is best done at the end of the row with a hook.
- Knitting ornament. If an ornament should be knitted on a stocking, and it doesn’t come out, it can be embroidered on an already finished product.
Patterns and description of knitting a stocking with knitting needles for beginners
Beginners in knitting need to understand that before starting the process, work must be divided into several parts. Based on the image of the finished stocking, its components are denoted by the letters:
- A - called the side, knits with an elastic band and is the part responsible for ensuring that the stocking does not crawl down the leg. Knits at least 5cm long.
- B - the wide part without reduction, due to which the height is created. The size depends on the width of the stocking, which must be multiplied by two.
- B is the part of the length that drives the product along the leg, the number of loops varies from row to row. Each loses two loops.
- G - is denoted by the "neck", a segment without reduction. Equal to one fourth of the "B".
- D is the heel. Its size should strictly correspond to the parameters of the leg.
- E is the wedge-shaped part;
- F - foot;
- Z - a toe.
Parts E, F, Z are knitted according to the size of the foot.
For the first time, you can knit the most ordinary stocking, without drawings and lace. You need to start work from above using 4 knitting needles. On one, the required number of loops is typed, which after are evenly distributed between the others.
Segment “B” is knitted with facial loops with a track located behind.
Part "B" gradually decreases, so the two loops located around the track of the same row are knitted together.
Segment "G" is knitted with facial loops, without cutting rows.
Heel “D” is knitted on two knitting needles, using only half of the total.
Then they knit part “E” - a wedge. Loops from the edges of the heel are put on knitting needles and knit in a circle in two rows. After this, the links are reduced for the manufacture of the foot.
The foot is knitted to the length of the leg, keeping the number of loops.
The toe should narrow for which one link is removed from each spoke.
How to knit stockings with needles: step by step instructions
More experienced, mastered the technique of knitting simple smooth patterns, needlewomen should try their hand at making fishnet stockings. Beautiful, decorated with an intricate pattern, they perfectly complement the romantic image and dilute the hooligan style of “casual”.
For work you will need:
- yarn (acrylic, cotton) - 100g;
- knitting needles (No3) - 1 pair;
- stocking knitting needles (No2) - 2 pairs.
Attention! The model is designed for women with 38 feet size.
The step-by-step process looks like this:
- Work begins on tools No. 3. They loop 64 loops and knit in a circle with an elastic band “two on two” of approximately 30 cm of canvas with any of the delicate lace patterns.
- Knitting is transferred to knitting needles No. 2 and scattered 16 loops on each of them. Thus, the stocking will narrow in the ankle in half. Knit 14 rows of stitch.
- Leaving half the loops, the first and fourth knitting needles continue to knit the front surface (20 rows).
- In the new row, all the loops are divided into three rows: 11, 10, and 11. Create loops of the center, slowly reducing the side loops.
- The completion of the rows is carried out by knitting together the resulting central loops.
- When 10 loops remain on the spoke, the heel is finished. The same number of edge loops are being gathered on it.
- Knitting is continued with an openwork pattern on 2 and 3 knitting needles.
- Edge loops are transferred to the spoke along the second edge of the heel and the loops are again divided between the four knitting needles.
- On the little finger, the loops are reduced in every second row.
- After 5 loops of stitches remain on the knitting needles, they are made in each row. After several rows, the web is closed and the last loops are sewn together with a needle.
Determining the color of future knitted stockings, it should be borne in mind that too bright shades can visually shorten the legs. For everyday wear, it is preferable to use more conservative black, burgundy or beige colors.
