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Heel Choices

Lesson 11 - August 29, 2022

Heel Choices

Hi dears,

As you are working your way along the foot of your sock, here is some information inspired by student questions that will help you.

Knitting Toe or Gusset - Missed Increases

When you forget to increase fleegle heel Question: "I am still on the toe and have started over numerous times. Now I have 19 stitches on one needle and 20 on the other. Do I have to start over? I thought I had done all the increases but I guess I missed one."

Answer: Knitter, take heart! This happens to the best of us. You may run into this issue on the gusset (the section after the foot) as well.

Instead of taking out your work, drop a stitch a few rows down and re-do the missing increase. This video is part of your Toe-Up Socks class as well.

Video: When You Forget to Increase on Your Fleegle Heel Gusset

Heel Choices

Question: "I have reached the point of choosing which heel to make and I'm a little confused.

It looks to me as though you have three: basic, generic/fleegle, and heel flap. I would like to do the simplest for my first TAAT toe-up socks and then the other(s) when I knit subsequent socks. Would you please list them in order of difficulty?"

Answer: There are actually only two choices for the heel:

1) Basic (Generic/Fleegle) and
2) Faux-heel-flap.

The easiest one and the one I recommend you start with is the Basic heel. The basic toe-up sock pattern contains instructions for this very simple (and ingenious) heel called the Fleegle heel. The generic pattern I mentioned contains the same basic Fleegle heel.

Heel Videos

Close-up of faux heel flap Question: "I've been knitting your fingering-weight faux heel 2AAT toe up sock pattern. The written pattern describes wrapping and turning next in order to make the heel. Your video shows something else entirely. I'm lost."

Answer: For the faux-heel-flap socks, I have a separate video! There is a link to it in your pattern in the section "Work Faux Heel Flap," and there is also a bonus section in your Toe-Up Socks class all about the Faux-Heel-Flap heel.

Here is a link to the video: Video: How to knit the faux heel flap heel

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