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Different sock heels §

This glossary is based on Sock Heel Patterns Glossary – Curls and Q.

Cuff Down §

1. French (Round Heel) — tutorial at KnitPicks
2. Dutch (Square Heel) — tutorial at KnitPicks
3. *Taffy/Welsh — In Finnish, includes other heels.
4. Welsh Heel — In English
5. Band (German Strap Heel)
6. Handkerchief Heel (V Heel)
7. Gusset Heel — For Dummies
8. Half Handkerchief
9. Fish Lips Kiss Heels — by SoxTherapist
10. Balbriggan — instructions at Liberty’s Yarn
11. Double-stitch Short Row — Tess Knits
12. Sherman Heel — Hipknitism
13. Fleegle Heel Video Link
14. Double Gusset Heel — Turtlegirl’s Bloggy Thing
15. Strong Heel — Aaron Clark’s Easier socks with the Strong Heel developed by Gerdine Crawford-Strong, pdf
16. OMG Heel — Megan Williams
17. German Short Row aka Boomerang Heel — Suzanne Bryan

Toe Up §

1. French
2. Dutch
3. Round
4. Reverse Dutch
5. Heel Shaped common heel — part of the Vanilla Sock pattern
6. Eye of Partridge — part of the Vanilla Sock pattern
7. Gusset Heel — Toe Up — Maia Spins
8. Turkish Heel — Crystal Socklet Heel — Lynn DT Hershberger aka ColorJoy
9. Fish Lips Kiss Heels — by SoxTherapist
10. Fleegle Heel — also a cuff down version, Fleegle Heel video link
11. Seam Free Rounded Toe-up Sock — Lynn Ashton
12. Sherman — Cabezalana
13. Double Stitches Heel — No wrapping, Heidi Bears
14. OMG Heel — Megan Williams
15. Sling Heel — Staci Perry

Afterthought Heels §

1. Afterthought Heels — for Dummies
2. The Beehive’s Aladdin Heel — Scroll to the bottom of the page
3. Afterthought Heel socks — La La’s Knits

Short Rows — Toe up or Toe down §

1. Short Row Heel
2. Roomier Short Row Heel
3. Hourglass
4. Cat’s Sweet Tomato Heel by Cat Borhdi — YouTube video
5. Cat’s Padded Sweet Tomato Heel by Cat Borhdi — YouTube video
6. Fleegle Heel
7. Fish Lips Kiss Heels — by SoxTherapist

Heel up §

1. Hat Heel Socks — by Kathleen Spurling — socks started from the heel and worked up to cuff and down to toe.

Heels by Number §

A great chart which lists how to knit the follow heels following an easy math formula. The following heel types are listed:

1. V heel
2. Round heel
3. Rounder heel
4. Square heel
5. Modified square heel
6. Strap heel

Skewed Heel §

1. Skew Sock — Lana Holden

Sweet Tomato Heels §

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRc3309JUyc

This is a short row heels by working 3 wedges. Each wedge is done the same way - begins at marker A on purl side

1. Divide stitches to 1/3 and 2/3, place marker A and B on the right and left side of 1/3 part (the front/instep).
2. Knit to A, turn, now start working the heels
3. Slip 1 wyif, p until marker B, turn
4. Slip 1 wyib, k until 2 sts before the gap(last turn), turn
5. Slip 1 wyif, p until 2 sts before the gap, turn
6. Repeat step 4 and 5, until appx. 1 inch left in the middle. It should ends with step 5.
7. Close the gap: slip 1 wyib, k til the 1st gap, k1, lift the st below to the needle and k2tog, continue close the gap like this until the end. DO NOT TURN. Keep knit the instep sts. For the 1st stitch on the other side, lift & k2tog first and then k1, continue close the gap until marker A
8. Knit a round
9. Now wedge 1 is complete. Repeat the same for wedge 2 and 3.

Sole gusset §

• I knit a 64 stitch sock, so knit the heel flap over 32 stitches. If you have knit socks before it should be easy to adjust the stitch counts below to a larger or smaller size.

I’ll do a slip stitch heel for 32 rows - I count to 16 elongated stitches - then a standard heel turn: slip 1, k17, ssk, k1, turn. Slip 1, p5, p2tog, p1, turn. Continue heel turn until final p2tog.

Then knit across sole stitches, pick up 18 stitches along the side of the heel flap, knit the instep and pick up 18 stitches on the other side of the heel flap, then k9 to the centre of the sole.

I knit on DPNs, so I arrange to have 27 stitches on needle 1, 16 stitches on needles 2 & 3 for the instep, and 27 stitches on needle 4, with the new beginning of round in the centre sole.

K 1 round

Decrease: needle 1 - k11, k2tog, k14, knit instep in pattern, needle 4 k14, ssk, k11.

K 1 round

Decrease: needle 1 k10, k2tog, k14, knit across instep, needle 4 k14, ssk, k10.

Continue alternating knit rounds and decrease rounds until you have 16 stitches on needles 1 and 4.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sockknitting/s/h6WdVuU37y

How to pick up gusset without holes §

Check Pick up Gusset and prevent holes in socks heel for details

Calculator §

https://coda.io/@kat-zimmermann/sock-knitting-calculator https://www.knitgrammer.com/knitting-calculators/

Spreadsheet calculator (cuff down) §

https://www.lauroftheblingsdesigns.com/blog/cuff-down-heel-flap-sock-recipe