Slytherin Sock Syndicate

 HEEL instructions incase you want to plot out your heel ahead of time or plot swapping it out for an alternate heel. (let us know the alternate heels if you use one, we'd like to be able to suggest them for those who don't like an afterthought heel) HEEL Heel placement  - you're going to want to measure your foot if you're doing toe up and place your afterthought heel stitches at 2 inches less than total foot length. doing top down, using a pre-knitted pair of socks - figure out how many rounds you normally do in a sock foot to fit  (like I know plain knitting my socks are 70 rounds for the foot)- subtract that number from 150 (that's the number of rounds in the whole sock - it does make a tall sock - there are points where the number of rounds match up and the socks can be stopped if you want shorter ones) this should give you a round count where you want to put your heel. you can then either put in a contrast colour (knit across the heel stitches and then purl ba...

 Alternative ways of knitting the advent KAL There are several different ways that you can knit the coming advent socks, some pick one of the daily colours and just knit stripes. this is a fun way to knit along if you want a low stress option. Some have split the socks into two pairs for shorter socks, others have turned them into fingerless mitts. We've had some stunning 2 colour versions over the years. In short we want you to enjoy it and there is no wrong to make these  This year for our Advent Sock KAL we would like to again offer to encourage you to step out of your comfort zone and try helical or helix knitting. This technique can use many colors or stick with just two. One way to have fun with your socks would be to carry your chosen house color from the toe or cuff throughout. The second (or more) color stripes would come from the daily prompt. Alternatively, you can choose to knit with the colors that would normally be used in the colorwork chart for that day. Given ...

  For those of you that want to get your cuff/toes done ahead of the 1st - here are the instructions Starting instructions for toe up or cuff down. This year we will be doing colourwork again. You can choose to knit these from the toe or cuff, or one of each. We hope you have fun creating these unique socks! Reminder you do not have to do the colourwork, you can just do the stripes in one of the suggested colours each day, you could also choose to add a cable like we did a few years ago. there are no MKAL police here, we want you to have fun. Toe-Up Using either of your house colours or a good neutral, cast on 16 sts using Judy’s magic cast on (or preferred method for toe up) divide onto two needles (8 sts each). knit one round. inc round k1 m1r knit til last stitch on left needle m1l k1 x2. Repeat the increase round for 3 more rows then repeat it every other round until you have at least 60 sts. Check if it seems tight go up in 4st increments until it feels comfortable. If you int...

  Welcome to the 2024 Slytherin Sock Syndicate Advent Sock Our team is busy getting ready for December and in the meantime we wanted to give you a few bits and pieces. Clues aka sections will be released daily here on the Blog from the 1-24th December our team are in different parts of the world so we ask for patience if it takes a little longer to go up, but we're hoping to have them up as early in the day as possible. Links will be provided in the sock syndicate's  Ravelry thread  on each day as well, there is also the best place to ask questions, get help and chat with others. The socks can be knit either toe up or cuff down , it's up to you, they also end up long, if you have smaller feet you may decide to stop earlier, it's up to you, there are no hard and fast rules, one of our previous participants made them into fingerless gloves instead, we love the creativity, there is no wrong way to participate in this MKAL. We  are looking forward to this years fun as we...