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See Clue #1 for materials and abbreviations. Before starting clue, select which heel you'd like to use for your sock. Option #1: The Hybrid Heel is a gusseted heel with a slip-stitch heel flap and is your best choice if you have a high instep or otherwise worry about fitting the sock over your heel. The gusset will require slightly more yarn (both MC and CC2) and is worked from the charts on p.8. Be warned - the gusset will not look exactly like the chart, so be ready for a bit of a surprise as you're knitting! Option #2: The Short Row Heel is my special variation on the classic toe-up heel. This heel will allow you to continue the main color chart without interrupting it with the gusset. Option #3: The Afterthought Heel is another classic toe-up heel. The heel stitches are held on waste yarn while the rest of the sock is completed, and then the sock heel is knitted like a top-down sock toe.
Foot (cont'd)
Join CC2 and work begin working from Color Chart #2 on next page in the following order. Note: When sock from tip of toe to ndls measures either 3.5" (for hybrid heel) or $Z^{\ast}$ (for short row or afterthought heel) less than desired finished length, skip down to heel instructions, work heel (do not break either yarn), then cont with color pattern. If possible, place the short row or afterthought heel immediately after Row 17 of color pattern. Start the hybrid heel NO LATER than Row 16 of the color pattern. 1. Work Setup Rnd 0. Break CC1 2. Work Rnds 1-25. 3. Work Rnds 2-10.
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Hybrid Heel
Gusset
Rnd 1: Work across instep sts in pattern; work Rnd 1 of Right Gusset Chart (see p.8) on first 2 heel sts, pm, work sts 3-35 (3-39) from Color Chart #2 as estab, pm, work Rnd 1 of Left Gusset Chart on last 2 heel sts. Rnd 2: Work across instep sts in pattern; work next rnd of Right Gusset Chart to marker II work sts 3-35 (3-39) from Color Chart #2 as estab Il work next rnd of Left Gusset Chart to end of heel sts. Rep Rnd 2 until gusset charts are complete. You will now have 69 (73) heel sts. Work to end of instep sts in pattern. Break MC and remove markers.
Shape Bottom of Heel
Row 1 (RS): With CC2, k52 (56), W&T (see additional techniques). Row 2: P35 (39), W&T. Row 3: Knit to st before wrapped st (do not knit across any wrapped sts), W&T. Row 4: Purl to st before wrapped st (do not purl across any wrapped sts), W&T. Rep Rows 3-4 an additional 10 (12)x - there are now 12 (14) wrapped sts on either side of 13 unwrapped center sts. Next Round: With RS facing, knit to end of heel sts, lifting wraps RS as you encounter them, then work across instep sts in pattern (rejoining MC at start of instep sts) to bring you back to the start of the heel.
Work Heel Flap
Row 1 (RS): With CC2, k52 (56) lifting remaining wraps RS as you encounter them, SSK, turn. Row 2: [Sl1, p1] 18 (20)x, sl1, p2tog, turn. Row 3: Sl1, k36 (40), SSK, turn. Row4:Rep Row 2. Rep Rows 3-4 an additional 14x. With RS facing, work across heel sts in same rnd of pattern worked across instep before starting heel flap. Slip first heel st instead of knitting it to
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help ease transition between heel and leg. When heel is finished, cont with Leg.
Short Row Heel
Work across instep sts in next rnd of color pattern. Heel will be worked back-and-forth on the 37 (41) heel sts with CC2.
Shape Bottom of Heel
Row 1 (RS): Knit to last st on ndl, W&T (see additional techniques). Row 2: Purl to last st on ndl, W&T. Row 3: Knit to st before wrapped st (do not knit across any wrapped sts), W&T. Row 4: Purl to st before wrapped st (do not purl across any wrapped sts), W&T. Rep Rows 3-4 an additional 10 (12)x - there are now 12 (14) wrapped sts on either side of 13 unwrapped center sts.
Shape Top of Heel
Row 1 (RS): Knit to first wrapped st (do not knit across any wrapped sts), lift wrap Rs (see additional techniques), turn. Row 2: Sl1, purl to first wrapped st (do not purl across any wrapped sts, lift wrap Ws, turn. Row 3: Sl1, knit to next wrapped st (just past the st unwrapped on the previous RS row), lift wrap RS, turn. Row 4: Sl1, purl to next wrapped st (just past the st unwrapped on the previous WS row), lift wrap Ws, turn. Rep Rows 3-4 until all sts are unwrapped. After the final working of Row 4, you are at the start of the heel sts. Slip the first heel st, then work across the rest of the heel in the next rnd of color pattern (the same rnd worked across the instep when setting up to work heel). When heel is finished, cont with Leg
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Afterthought Heel Hold Stitches for Heel
Work across instep sts in pattern. With waste yarn, knit across heel sts. Drop waste yarn and go back to start of heel. Knit across heel sts in pattern with working yarn(s). Cont with Leg. Once Leg is finished, return here to complete heel as follows. You can do this either at the completion of Clue 2 or after finishing the entire sock. Note: If breaking yarn after Clue 2, leave enough extra to complete 2 more rnds at the start of Clue3.
Insert Afterthought Heel
Carefully pick up the sts held by the waste yarn, placing the back-of-leg sts on one ndl and the bottom-of-foot sts on another. There will be an extra st on the top (back-of-leg) ndl, so pick up a st in the corner of the heel with the other ndl so that there are 38 (42) sts on each ndl. If working on dpns, divide each set of sts over two dpns. Join CC2 at corner of heel and begin working in the rnd on these 76 (84) sts.
Rnd 1: Knit.
Rnd2: $^{\star}\mathsf{K}_{1}$ , SSK, knit to 3 sts before corner of heel, k2tog, k1; repeat from \*. Rep Rnds 1-2 an additional 9 (10)x. 36 (40) sts. Rep Rnd 2 an additional 5x. 16 (20) sts remain. Graft heel closed from corner to corner using Kitchener St. Leg Cont to work color pattern in the order given
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Right Gusset Chart
Left Gusset Chart
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Wrap & Turn (W&T):
On a RS row, sl1, bring yarn to front of work between ndls, sl same st back to left ndl, bring yarn to back of work between ndls, turn work. On a WS row, sl1, bring yarn to back of work between ndls, sl same st back to left ndl, bring yarn to front of work between ndls, turn work. Yarn is wrapped around base of st that was just slipped back and forth. This st should not have been worked in the process.
Lift Wrap RS:
With the tip of the right ndl, pick up the wrap from the front side and lift it onto the left ndl next to the st it was wrapped around. Knit the wrap and its corresponding st together tbl.
Lift Wrap WS:
With the tip of the right ndl, pick up the wrap from the back side (RS of work) and lift it onto the left ndl next to the st it was wrapped around. Purl the wrap and its corresponding st together.
