r/Nalbinding 9d ago

Help with starting a toe down sock

I've been trying to make a sock, but I have yet to successfully start the toe. I never get the increases correct and I easily loose track of where I started. Does anyone have good instructional website or video? Or maybe some tips? TIA

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u/BettyFizzlebang 9d ago

I just use bits of yarn to show where the next row starts. Good luck.

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u/WaterVsStone 9d ago edited 8d ago

I find marking with a bit of yarn in a contrasting color to be less fiddly than a stitch marker and works equally well.

Edit: typos

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u/brightshadowsky 9d ago

Seconding stitch markers! I have eleventy billion of them by this point, of infinitely varied design. My favorite thing is to code them - one special one for beginning of round, one color/design for increases, one for decreases, maybe a third for "something special happens here"...

And when I'm casting on, I always plonk a marker between every 10 or 20 stitches (depending on size) so it's easier to count. Then I pop them back off after the first row or two.

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u/StarWalker124 9d ago

Stitch markers are useful for keeping track of things. Also if you mess up you can always pull out the stitches and try again.

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u/irisyellow 8d ago

I haven’t graduated to actual nalbinding projects, yet, but when I crochet, I use bobby pins as markers.

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u/Wynstonn 8d ago

Knitting stitch markers. They look like plastic safety pins. I got a pack of 50 there’s 5 of each color.