I am working on this sock heel and am having a few issues.
1st: I have 36 stitches on my needles from working the heel flap but the pattern only has me working with 22 stitches which doesn’t seem right. It leaves part of the heel flap not getting worked.
2nd: when I get down the row 8 I don’t have enough stitches to finish the row. I knit 17 but then I only have 1 stitch left to do the sl 1, k1, Psso, k1. The other rows worked out until I got down to this one.
I attached photos and can not figure out what I am doing wrong. Please help!
Each time you turn you’ll be using up one more of the sts at the side of the heel. I’m on a slow internet connection at the moment but if you Google “turning sock with heel flap”, Very Pink has a nice video for this.
Hm, I watched a couple of videos now and theirs seem to work out but I ripped out and re-did this portion 3 times and it turns out the same each time. Every time I turn it, it uses up
some of the one side of stitches but not this other side and there is never a point where I pick any up from the abandoned side. I am definitely not grasping something in my head but am following the pattern and just don’t see how I could use those stitches when the pattern doesn’t seem to include them. Am I supposed to be doing something the pattern isn’t mentioning?
Each side has a dec before the final stitch. On the RS it’s a slip one, k1, pass slipped st over and off the needle. On the WS it’s a purl 2 together. You can usually use the gap created by the turn to mark the dec (one stitch from either side of the gap is worked together).
Knit or purl across the row and then work the dec.
I’ve found this the most helpful thing going for heels. It looks like the partial image I’m adding but includes several styles of heels. It’s a free download
Okay. Yeah. How many stitches in your heel flap? 35? The heel flap appears to be narrow if it’s worked on 22 stitches? But this is in total a 72 stitch sock? Usually you work the heel flap on half therefore 36. Then, your turn formula is half that PLUS two—so you’d P 18 then P2tog and P 1 Turn.
Like the other knitters are saying, each row of your turn, whether a K or a P, means you are “eating up” one additional stitch from those side stitches. If you end up with too many on one side, you’ve missed a dec
I want to ask the others if there isn’t a line missing in your pattern though. Because after you set up with
I walked away from this project for a bit and just came back to it. It turns out I was doing my psso all wrong! I have now moved past the heel and am on my way to finishing my first sock!
