Add some texture to your heel flap with an easy slip-stitch heel.
Adding a textured heel flap is an easy way to make the socks more interesting AND to make the heel more durable at the same time.
The slip-stitch heel is super-easy, and it is also nice and stretchy – great if you’re not sure how big the sock-recipient’s ankle is.
This video shows you not only how to work the slip-stitch heel flap, it also gives you tricks for keeping track of where you are (without writing anything down, of course) and for understanding what you are doing just by looking at your work.
Stitch directions and a pattern you can use are below the video:
![[KnitFreedom] Socks | Heel Stitches - Slip-Stitch Heel Pattern](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wIlUOLJRWM8/hqdefault.jpg)
The basic pattern for the Slip Stitch heel is:
Row 1 (RS): *(Sl 1, k1), repeat from * across, end k1.
Row 2 and all even rows: Sl 1, P rest of sts.
Download a free Magic Loop sock pattern to use with this heel stitch.
In local news, the gentle sun continues to shine on Mendoza, which must be the sunniest place on earth.
Here is the forecast for the ridiculously mild “winter” weather coming up next week…
I’ve been going jogging often, accompanied by great Spanish-language tunes, as well as general staring.
Jogging in the park may be normal but jogging down the street, to the grocery store, for instance (I like to multi-task), is unheard of. I think people thing someone is chasing me.
I’ve also moved house, closer to downtown. I feel downright swanky!
I’m also biking everywhere, zooming along (with more staring) quite as fast as the cars on these two-lane streets.
Speaking of biking, I snapped this photo the other day at twilight of a churros vender pedaling his wares around the town. I had my camera ready because I could hear his telltale “It’s a Small World, After All” tune blaring all the way down the street.
Did he know the words to the song? Doubtful. Is it a small world, after all? It certainly seems to be!
And here’s something fun – yesterday, after a short Spanish conversation, I had the owner of a furniture store ask me if I was from Mendoza, which resulted in much happy blushing and an uncontrollable big hug.
It also resulted in an overwhelming urge to stop talking, as I was surely eventually going to make a grammar mistake!!
Read More of My Journey Through Argentina:
- The Next Post: Garter Stitch in the Round, and Mendoza Holiday
- From The Beginning: My First Adventures In Argentina
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