Comments on: Heel Turn

By: Bethany

Bethany — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 01:52:34 +0000

I usually do a “rounder heel”, myself. I like the way it fits. And I like the way a conventional heel looks. I have yet to make a short-row heel I like. The one time I finally completed one it looked strange to my eyes, without a heel flap and gusset decrease lines. I frogged it and started again.

By: lucia

lucia — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 04:14:30 +0000

I think the rounder heels *do* fit better than either the short row heels or the square one I just knit.

I have a strange reason for not knitting the round one yet! I can write a program to calculate out square heels and have it run at the blog easily. (I can do the same for the short row heels. )

I need to wait a bit before I move to the round heel because at least so far, the only way I can think of to write it requires me to launch a pop-up window, and I’ve found those just don’t work for a certain number of people.

As to which socks looks strange, I think that depends on what you’re used to. I grew up with machine knit socks, so the short row heels look “normal” to me!

By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:03:51 +0000

I love knitting socks, I have never considered that turning the heel had so many “flavors”. I guess I should try a different way each time and see if I come out with a favorite. Thank you for the cool link.

By: lucia

lucia — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:09:46 +0000

It’s sort of amazing, isn’t it? If I go on a sock knitting binge, I may end up with a whole bunch of “sock-u-lators” each calculating a different sock heel.

I do like the ones I already knit. Still, short rowed heels are easier.

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The Knitting Fiend » Blog Archive » Sock-u-lator Socks — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:57:42 +0000

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By: Laura Eldridge

Laura Eldridge — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 05:31:41 +0000

Thanks for the advice - I’m knitting my first stocking and was getting really thrown off the remaining stitches. Perfect timing on the post, and you’re right - it sounds a lot more complicated than it is.

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The Knitting Fiend » Blog Archive » Zig & Zag Sockulator — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:47:00 +0000

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By: Stitchay Woman

Stitchay Woman — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:03:50 +0000

As I am in the middle of trying to figure out how to make a damn short row heel look OK (and reknitting it over and over again), I can’t wait to move back to the heel flap/turn heel method on my next pair of socks. The only socks I’ve ever knit so far all had the heel-flap type of heel, and I didn’t know how easy I had it until I started on these *(&*&%^%$$& short rows.

By: Kelli

Kelli — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:41:25 +0000

Thank you so much for the post!!! I am working on my first pair of socks and this has been a tremendous help. I kinda thought this was the way it should have been done but you have confirmed it. Thanks for sharing!