Sock Pattern Confusion

I just started this new sock pattern tonight (I’ve only knit one other very basic one before) but the directions for the heel are stumping me. I hope I’m not crazy. I’m following Bernat’s Basic Socks pattern (s3.amazonaws.com/spinrite/pdf/WEB-BERNAT-SOX-K-BasicSocks-ENG.pdf) and for setting up the heel stitches it says:

Arrange heel sts: 1st needle: K10. Slip
next 5 sts onto beg of 2nd needle.
2nd needle: Knit.
3rd needle: Slip first 5 sts onto end of 2nd
needle. K15. Divide 30 sts of 2nd needle
onto 2 needles and leave for instep.

Simple enough at first glance. But we start with 60 stitches divided 20-20-20 across 3 needles and following these directions I feel like I’d be missing 10 stitches somewhere? The pattern is also not clear on what needle we’ll be developing the heel from or how many we should have left after this step. Please help!!

Welcome!
There’s a mistake in this section. Knit 15sts on first needle, slip last 5sts onto beg of 2nd needle. Knit 25sts on 2nd needle. Slip first 5sts of 3rd needle onto 2nd needle. Knit these 5sts. Knit 15sts on 3rd needle. You’re now back to the marker.
You’ll end up with needle 1, 15sts; needle 2, 30 sts (instep); needle 3, 15sts. Needles 1 and 3 are the heel.
You can divide the sts on needle 2 onto 2 needles now or just cap the needle and hold those sts till the heel is finished.

Yes, that’s it exactly. You’re working yarn is between needles 3 and 1, so knit to the end of needle 1, turn and work back on 1 and 3. The first full heel row will be row 1 on the WS.

How do I shape the heel. I don’t understand. This pattern needs pictures. Lol. Please help.

Sl1, k16, ssk, k1.

That’s 21 stitches. How.

Sl1p p5 p2tog p1.

Huh.

Help @salmonmac

This is what it looks like after I do that sl1, k16, ssk, k1

Sorry. I really need help.

Heels are the most exciting part of the sock to knit and by exciting I mean confusing. This is a short row heel so you’ll be turning and knitting back over some sts already knit.

Shape heel: 1st row: (RS). Sl1. K16. ssk. K1.Turn.
2nd row: Sl1P. P5. P2tog. P1. Turn

Slip 1, k16, ssk, k1, (that’s 20sts), turn as you would at the end of a row. You’ll leave some sts unworked on the left needle but you’ll get to them soon. From now on you’ll be working back and forth on the heel’s middle sts and row by row adding those unworked sts into the middle section.

Am I missing something on row 12. How do I get to row 13 if I don’t turn. And shouldn’t it have me p the last stitch on 12?

At the end of row 12 you should have used up all the side sts. You’re right, you need to turn, but it’s a turn as you usually do at the end of a row. Row 13 will finish off the heel shaping.

On row twelve I end up with sl1p p15 p2tog. And a p1 at the end when I shouldn’t have that last stitch. And I’ve done it now 3 times. I’m confused.

There may be a missed decrease somewhere along the way? Easiest way to work this is to sl1p, p16, p2tog. You’ll have one extra stitch in the heel but I don’t see that that’ll make a difference. If you want you can decrease it somewhere on the next row maybe within the k8 of row 13.

For some reason my row 11 finishes like a normal row.

You start with 15sts each on needles 1 and 3. I just counted up the decreases, one each on rows 1 to 13 and I get 17sts at the end of row 13 instead of 16. Sorry I didn’t think to do that earlier.

On row 11 you reach the end of the row? I’ll give this a try.

ETA: Yes, all the extra sts on the knit side are used up after row 11. Work the purl side and instead of ending the row p2tog there should be a p1 at the end of row 12. That’ll still leave you with 18sts total. When you decrease on row 13 the stitch count is 17sts.
As I mentioned above, you can decrease the extra stitch somewhere on row 13. The next section carries on with 16sts from the heel.

Who ever wrote this pattern :triumph:. :joy::joy:. They need to redo it.

I couldn’t agree more. There are corrections noted on the Ravelry project pages.


I wrote to Yarnspirations and hopefully they’ll update.

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