Addi Pro Sock video options.

 The Addi Pro holds 22 needles and machine knits two strands of DK (#3) yarn, worsted weight (#4) and even light-bulky (#5) yarns into lovely tubes lickety split. These tubes have a lot of potential as socks. The machine is particularly suited to make women and children's house socks from these bulky yarns as the 22-stitch tubes are generally just over 6" around. If they are converted (by hand) to 1x1 rib, the tube shrinks to just under 5" around.

If one wishes to make house socks for large feet, the next size up is the Sentro 40 Needle machine, but let's look at the technique possibilities on the 22 needle beauty for now.

Heel options include:

No Heel, gathered toe Goth Halloween Socks

Heel added as a separate piece Socks on your Addi with NO Short Rows, Afterthought Heel, or Hand Knitting! Yay For Yarn

Flat panel stitched up the sides By JoJo JuJu

Reinforced short rows with three strands of yarn Kimma's Tips and Tricks in English Jeff Lehard in French

Short rows removed onto pins then re-hung for the second half of the turn By Gerri Baggett-in 5 parts

And finally, easy-peasy, create-short-rows-over-three-needles, with no re-hanging. This is the one I prefer. The German-language video was re-released with an English voice-over. I'll discuss this one in depth in the next post. Sylvie Rasch with English voice-over

The cast-on and top of the sock can be treated many different ways:

The standard every-other-needle cast-on is very loose and may require some "tightening up" after the sock is off the machine.

It is possible to cast-on with a classic machine knit "e-wrap." Sylvie Rasch demonstrates this approach, but keeping the loops loose enough to accomplish the first row of actual knitting is difficult. 

Gerri Baugett works around this with a "long-tail e-wrap." By creating the backwards-e wraps with a long tail, and immediately knitting the first row, a lot of the tightness issues are immediately resolved.

Here are some options for the "shank" of the sock after a successful circular cast-on: 

Convert the sock shank into ribbing. Unravel every other stitch and latch it up in the opposite texture (knit on the purl side) Sylvie Rasch demonstrates this option over a 12 row depth, and Gerri Baugett latches up the entire length of the shaft.

A hung hem keeps plain knitting from curling. Simply knit twice the number of rows desired for the hemmed portion, and re-hang the first row over the live stitches. Jef Lehardi uses this technique.

A rolled hem is the easiest as plain knitting (stockinette stitch) naturally curls over itself without any further treatment.

Toe finishes generally mimic the turned heel technique demonstrated previously. 

I've combined all of the YouTube videos mentioned above into a playlist here. 

Let me know which one works out best for you.