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 HEEL instructions


incase you want to plot out your heel ahead of time or plot swapping it out for an alternate heel.


(let us know the alternate heels if you use one, we'd like to be able to suggest them for those who don't like an afterthought heel)


HEEL


Heel placement  - you're going to want to measure your foot if you're doing toe up and place your afterthought heel stitches at 2 inches less than total foot length.


doing top down, using a pre-knitted pair of socks - figure out how many rounds you normally do in a sock foot to fit  (like I know plain knitting my socks are 70 rounds for the foot)- subtract that number from 150 (that's the number of rounds in the whole sock - it does make a tall sock - there are points where the number of rounds match up and the socks can be stopped if you want shorter ones) this should give you a round count where you want to put your heel.


you can then either put in a contrast colour (knit across the heel stitches and then purl back) or place a marker and do a true afterthought heel carefully snipping and unraveling one row (put needles into the row above and below first)


I made a photo help post several years ago on how to pick up the stitches, you can find it HERE



Afterthought Heel

Pick up all sts above and below the contrast yarn/row identified for the heel. Unravel the contrast yarn/carefully snipped yarn and divide the sts evenly on four dpns. To avoid holes, you can pick up some extra sts between needles 1&4 and needles 2&3 and decrease those extra sts on the first round. The beginning of round is now at the right bottom corner (toes down, cuff up). Knit 6 rounds in the round. Decrease round: k2tog at the end of each needle. Repeat the decrease round on every 4th round 3 more times, then on every other round 3 times and on every round 3 times. You should have 20 sts left. Move the sts on the 2nd needle onto the 1st needle and the sts on the 4th needle onto the 3rd needle. Break yarn leaving a 20 cm (8”) tail and graft together using kitchener stitch. The heel is from Crystal socks.


Weave in the remaining ends and enjoy!



  

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