Knit Socks - Betsy Lee Mccarthy [22]
Row 2 (rs): Slip 1, K7, ssk, K1, turn, leaving 12 stitches unworked.
Row 3: Slip 1, P8, P2tog, P1, turn, leaving 10 stitches unworked.
Row 4: Slip 1, K9, ssk, K1, turn, leaving 10 stitches unworked.
Row 5: Slip 1, P10, P2tog, P1, turn, leaving 8 stitches unworked.
Row 6: Slip 1, K11, ssk, K1, turn, leaving 8 stitches unworked.
Row 7: Slip 1, P12, P2tog, P1, turn, leaving 6 stitches unworked.
Row 8: Slip 1, K13, ssk, K1, turn, leaving 6 stitches unworked.
Row 9: Slip 1, P14, P2tog, P1, turn, leaving 4 stitches unworked.
Row 10: Slip 1, K15, ssk, K1, turn, leaving 4 stitches unworked.
Row 11: Slip 1, P16, P2tog, P1, turn, leaving 2 stitches unworked.
Row 12: Slip 1, K17, ssk, K1, turn, leaving 2 stitches unworked.
Row 13: Slip 1, P18, P2tog, P1, turn, leaving 0 stitches unworked.
Row 14: Slip 1, K19, ssk, K1. Heel turning is complete. You now have 22 stitches. End having just worked a right-side row.
Optional Narrower Heel
You may want to try this approach for turning the heel instead.
Row 1: Slip 1, P18, P2tog, P1, turn, leaving 14 unworked.
Row 2: Slip 1, K3, ssk, K1, turn, leaving 14 unworked.
Row 3: Slip 1, P4, P2tog, P1, turn, leaving 12 unworked.
Row 4: Slip 1, K5, ssk, K1, turn, leaving 12 unworked.
Row 5: Slip 1, P6, P2tog, P1, turn, leaving 10 unworked.
Row 6: Slip 1, K7, ssk, K1, turn, leaving 10 unworked.
Continue from Row 3 instructions above, except you will be leaving 2 stitches less each time (for example, you will be leaving 8 stitches instead of 10 stitches.)
After heel turning, 20 stitches will remain. End with a right-side row.
PICKING UP STITCHES FOR HEEL GUSSET
NOTE: For techniques, see Secrets for Tight, Smooth Gussets, pages 26–29. Pick up enough stitches to avoid holes or looseness along the edge of heel flap, even if this means that you pick up slightly more or less than 19.
SETUP: Using the appropriate needle, pick up and knit 19 stitches up the right side of heel flap. Then work across all instep stitches, beginning with the next row of the pattern you have chosen.
Rhythm and Double Time only: Work Round 3.
Shimmy Rib only: Work either Round 5 or 1, depending on whether you ended with Round 4 or Round 8.
Pick up and knit 19 stitches along the left side of the heel flap.
Continue to knit across the remaining heel stitches (the 22 stitches remaining after heel turning plus the 19 picked up along the right side of the flap or the 20 stitches remaining for the narrow heel turning option).
WORKING GUSSET DECREASES
Rhythm and Double Time only: Begin instep by working pattern Row 4.
Shimmy Rib only: Begin the instep by working either pattern Row 6 or 2, depending on whether the last pattern row worked before the heel was Row 5 or Row 1.
Round 1
Instep stitches: Work in pattern as established.
Heel stitches: K1, ssk, K to last 3 heel stitches, K2tog, K1. (You have decreased 2 stitches.)
Round 2
Instep stitches: Work in pattern as established.
Heel stitches: Knit to end of each needle.
Next Rounds: Repeat Rounds 1 and 2 until you have a total of 72 stitches (36 for instep and 36 for heel).
Rhythm and Double Time only: End by working pattern Row 2 or 4.
WORKING THE SOCK FOOT
NOTE: To fit various lengths, make the sock longer or shorter by working more or fewer rounds for the foot.
Double Time only: Continue slip-stitch pattern in mc for one pattern repeat (4 rounds) beyond the last gusset decrease. Then reverse mc and cc, working Rows 1 and 2 in cc and 3 and 4 in mc until 2” (5cm) from the desired length of the sock foot or 1½” (4cm) if using a rounder toe (see Making a More Blunt, Rounded Toe, page 75).
Continue working without making further decreases, patterning instep stitches and knitting sole stitches as established. Measuring from the back of the heel, work until the foot is 2” from the desired length of the sock foot.
Rhythm and Double Time only: End with pattern Row 2 or 4.
SHAPING THE TOE
NOTE: The toes of each pattern stitch are shaped in the same manner using stockinette