I thought you just slide the stitch to the next needle, but this doesn’t make sense - any suggestions? I think I’m not doing this right. Help!!! :verysad:
Slipping a stitch is just moving it from the left needle to the right needle. Could you give us the line in your pattern that tells you to do this and see if we can help you figure it out?
Its the heel flap - The pattern is Row 1. Slip1, knit 20, purl1
Row 2. Slip1, K 3, P 14, k 3, p1
and you just keep doin this until it measures 3’’. ending on the purl side.
I just keep slipping the same stitch over and over again - so its like I have this dropped stitch pulled really tight just sitting on my needle.[/img]
Heres some pictures of the problem - [/img]
Its not letting me down load the pictures so if you go to crescentknitter.blogspot.com I’m posting them there right now.
o.k. the picture of the problem is on my blog. Please Help!!!
What you’re going to be doing here is creating a “chain” down the side of the heel flap in which you will later pick up stitches for the gusset.
Row 1: Slip the first stitch purlwise, knit all but the last stitch. Purl the last stitch.
Row 2: Slip the first stitch purlwise (the one you just purled on row 1), then follow the rest of the directions for row 2. You will purl the last stitch on this row.
Row 3 and following rows: You will continue to slip the first stitch purlwise on each row, and you will also continue to purl the last stitch of each row.
When you are done with the heel flap, you will have a chain on each side of the heel flap that has one-half as many stitches in it as you have total heel flap rows. If you have 30 rows, you’ll have 15 chain stitches on each side; 26 rows, 13 chain stitches, etc.
I’m knitting this dpn’s - so what your telling me is that I knit the heel flap on regular needles?
When you knit a heel flap, the directions usually tell you do distribute a certain number of stitches to the needle which will hold the heel flap stitches, and you basically ignore the other needles while you are knitting the heel flap, which you will knit flat, turning the work back and forth, but you’ll still use your DPNs since you won’t do it for very long.
The video on turning a heel flap and knitting a gusset might be helpful in giving you a visual of what a heel flap looks like and what to do after that.
http://www.knittinghelp.com/knitting/free_patterns/sock-pattern.php
Also click on Silver’s Sock Class in my signature, that might help out too, it’s a great sock tutorial.
The heel flap is done using only two of your 4 (or 5) dpns. You will use them as if they were regular straight needles and work back and forth, turning at the ends of the rows!