Jenifer wrote:
Hi Deb, I love the socks for Knitty. I have a question for you (and probably a dumb question at that...) Why is it whenever I knit socks (which have been few) my heel flap is just plain-ole stockinette stitch, but when I see others (like your purple beauties) it looks like a rib pattern? Am I reading your pattern wrong or maybe in the wrong spot? The heel flap just looks textured more than the stockinette parts of the foot...
Not hugely important, but very curious. Thanks
First of all, not a dumb question in the least.
The heel flap is done in heel stitch, *sl1, k1 repeated to end on the right side and sl1, p to end on the reverse.
I think know where you're seeing the stockinette stitch and getting fiddled up. The first 16 rows of the heel are in stockinette (slipping the first st of each row), as are the shaping rows the follow. These form and shape a bottom flap. Heel stitch is them worked upward to give that turned heel that is sometimes missing from toe-ups.
Lastly, the term "purple beauties" makes me indescribably happy. Thank you!
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