4-needle sock pattern?

4 needles Marelli . Good heavens, I can hardly use 2

Someone has just given me a book of sock patterns (looks a bit daunting)

Do Ravelry have any free ones?

here's one
www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/basic-socks-dk

If you come across any 4 needle ones with the old fashioned heel turning could you send me a link please? I have been looking for one of those for ages. Most patterns now do a funny sort of square heel but I think the heel turning sort is neater. Lots of sock wool about nowadays. Most of the socks OH wears I have knitted him.

We had to knit a pair of yellow wool socks on 4 needles in primary school, late 1940s. I remember taking mine home for my aunt to turn the heel! I've a 90 year old friend who is an excellent knitter, sometimes wears self-knitted socks. I'll ask her.

I'm not sure if the link is for a pair with heel turning (however you do that!).
Perhaps you will recognise it Welshwife

It says 'shape heel' with a few instructions saying 'turn'

I did my last sock on a short circular needle, it's a lot easier, the shape heel instructions do look daunting, but go step by step and it's quite straightforward. I've only ever knitted 3 socks though, I prefer bigger garments. I think LoveKnitting have a couple of sock patterns to download free.

Three socks?

I knitted a small hat on three needles, what a struggle that was!
Perhaps four would be easier.

I used to be able to do 4 needles, but have never made a sock.

Am now wondering if I should,as I am having great difficulty in finding socks which are not too tight a) at the top and b)round the heel/ankle, I seem to have very big heels!

(Please don't send links to soft or comfort top socks, as I've tried the ones I can afford and they all SHRINK.
Then my feet swell more.)

I could try a 4 needle sock pattern....

AlieOxon do you put socks in the tumble drier?
We found that makes them shrink; I dry them on a rack now.

'loveknitting' has free downloadable patterns but they all seem to have the ones with a square heel, like you were describing, Welshwife.
I'll have another look at Ravelry, Jalima.
I want to do some jazzy ones for myself - brilliant sock wool on eBay, but not the right patterns, unfortunately!

I do think woollen socks are good this time of year. I don't k nit them, but have bought some gorgeous Exmoor sheep wool socks from a company in Devon. I think natural materials are always nice. Buy them for DH as well.

I normally use about a four ply weight yarn to make socks and get it in John Lewis since the little wool shop I used to use closed.
I have just discovered a disaster! Because of this thread I decided to look for the name of the wool - I usually have a pair of socks on the go to fill in any time between doing other things - found my bag with a finished sock and a half done one - but not only was there no wool band but the pattern is gone too!!!!! I will need to have a huge search now to see if I can find both- I think the wool is a Patons or Sirdar one. Comes multicoloured and makes different patterns as you knit.

I do wish I was more practical and creative. The spirit is definately willing but the flesh is pathetic.

Once you get the hang of it it is easy enough. My mum taught me to use four needles when I was a child. However it us very helpful to mark the beginning of the row.

Welshwife, I've been searching and have found a website. I searched for 4 needle sock patterns and this one came up : Free Vintage Knitting, with a printer -friendly pattern for the socks. It's American but I think the only difference would be ensuring the appropriate UK needle size. The heels are the 'turned type'.

Thank you - will take a look.

Have done a bit of searching and it is Regia sock wool I have used very successfully.

Welshwife have been having a sort-out of an untidy cupboard and found a jumper half done which I started for DD when she was about 8, she is in her thirties now.
There doesn't seem to be a pattern with it either.

I only started the socks last summer! Luckily OH's feet are still the same size!

I have only ever knitted one sock on 4 needles, in primary school. Never got round (so to speak) to the 2nd one. I did manage a pair of mitts on 4 needles.
Ours was the last class in our school to have to use 4 needles. The next class did something namby-pamby on 2 needles.

Sorry, I'm no help really.

My last effort was at primary school too, Farnorth. Orange mittens, which ended up more of a dull fawn and a bit matted by the time I'd finished them!
56 years later, I'm having another go - and all because a friend of mine has sent me a photo of some socks she's made. She's very clever, craft-wise, and has also sent me a photo of a cactus that she'd knitted. . I'll just stick with trying to do the socks.

We didn't do knitting at my primary school.

However, I remember making a very nice gathered skirt, navy blue with little flowers all over and embroidery round the hem. I wore it quite a lot!

As for knitting on more than two needles - the hat I knitted on three needles was not a great success because where I went from one needle to another there were three distinct lines of larger stitches up the hat.

I must have done something wrong.

jalima that does happen, I combat it by making sure I pull the first knitted stitch tight as I start on the next needle, and when the knitted piece is complete, and I wash it, I ease that "stitch ladder". Finally, I think of all those expensive bought garments that have a label that reads "There may be natural variations in this handmade garment".

There is a way too that you can tighten loose stitches with a crochet hook, will see if I can find it.