Stuck on the heel!

General Knitting
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I’m stuck on the heel turn of the tutorial for magic loop. It appears that either the patterns missing something or the number of stitches is wrong. I have tried using 14 stitches instead, but it I still run out of stitches when I get to the second repeat of the two rows. I’ve tried contacted the person who wrote the pattern, but haven’t had any luck.

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Can you quote the directions for the heel turn that are causing the problem or give us a link to the pattern? There are lots of experienced sock knitters here and many who use magic loop.

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http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/socks-rock-magic-loop-socks-tutorial/report
Its at the heel turn part, where i’m stuck

Thanks!

Here it is:

Heel Turn: (SSK - slip two sts. knitwise onto right-hand needle, then insert tip of left needle in the front of the two sts and K2 tog)

Row 1: SL 1, K15 ssk, K1 turn or you can do SL 1, K15, K2tog, K1*
Row 2: SL 1, P5, P2 tog, P1 turn
Continue working rows 1 and 2 until all your sts have been worked. You will have 16 st. left on your needle.

*Note: If you do not like doing the SSK, you can K2tog instead, really does not make a difference.

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Thanks for the pattern link. Actually, this was answered a couple of days ago:
http://forum.knittinghelp.com/t/stuck-on-the-heel-turn?t=116676
You can’t knit the specified number of sts in the 2 set up rows. You need to knit to one st before the gap and then dec. Did that not work?

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I tried that, but I’ll try it again and let you know what happens.

I still do the two row once using the 15 st for the 1st row and then start doing the decrease like you suggested, correct?

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Yes, do rows 1 and 2 but then on row 3, sl1, knit 6, ssk, k1. The ssk will use one st from each side of the gap.
Row 4: sl 1, p7, p2tog, p1. The p2tog will use one st from each side of the gap.
Continue this way until you have 16sts on the needle

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ok, so then on the next row I would knit 8 & on the next purl 9 and so on.

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Yay!! It worked! I guess I just didn’t understand the thread from last week, thanks for explaining!! :slight_smile:

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Great! Glad you asked again. Good luck with your socks.