Resources For Cranking

YouTube Videos and Written Instructions

Circular Sock Machine Demonstration

• Circular Sock Knitting Machine Demonstration - Vicky Dalton at the 2020 Spokane County Fair

• Sock Machine Knitting with Bonnie Smola, date unknown, formerly on VHS

Beginner Checklist

Set Up Bonnets / Cast On Methods

• icandyarn Setup Bonnet - Part 1, Part 2

• The Colorado Cranker - CSM Cast On Sack

• Tilly Douglas - How to cast on a sock knitting machine without a bonnet - CSM

• fiberjira  -The FiberCast - 45 Second CSM Cast on

• fiberjira - CSM Corkscrew Cast On

• Karen Ramel - CSM: Cast-On - Split Ring Bonnet REVISED (Silent)

• Karen Ramel - CSM: Make a “Universal Split Ring Flat Cast-on Bonnet”

• Gabrielle Marsden -  Gob's Web - Circular Sock Machine cast-on/doodle

• Juana's Salvage for Ribbing - Sock Knitting Machines

Socks

• Fred Hauck - Fred's EZ Socks:  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.  

• Juana's Mock Rib Hem Top Sock:  Juana

• Diagonal Knit Sock Cuff by Elaine A. :  see below

Heel Versions

• Heels Using the Wrap Technique

• Heels Using the No-Wrap Technique

• Heels on a Mock-Rib Leg

• Cat Borhdi's Sweet Tomato Heel done on Circular Sock Machine

• The CSM Wedge Heel

• Scotch Heel Variation - Polka Dot Heel / also known as Dutch Heel

• Heels without Decrease

• Wrap Rapid Decrease CSM Toe/Heel - taught by Ingrid K., Instructions interpreted by Nicole D.   (also referred after Sue Vunesky's Sui-cide Heel)

Patterns

• Variety of patterns:  CSM Supplies

• Variety of patterns:  from Erlbacher Knitting Machine

• Variety of patterns:  from Needles of Steel

• Variety of patterns:  from Rox4Sox

Manuals

Complete List - from Sock Machine Central, from MK Manuals, from CSKMS

Machine Assembly and Trouble Shooting

• Legare:  CSM Love

• Auto Knitter:  CSM Love

• Auto Knitter Upthrow Cams:  CSM Love