One Sock Done!

So... are you telling us you're ready to be walked through turning a heel? We KNOW you can do it! Noreen envisioning the ripping of that spiral and starting over, yes???

Norreen it never occured to me that you call it "turning a heel" i just knitted my heels ,, interesting term ... mirjam

maybe this would be a place where an "afterthought" heel would work? (Don't know, never seen a spiral sock--but you just unravel 1/2 or 2/3 of a row where the heel should go, and knit another toe. Works for me!)

Georgia

I have no idea why we say this - though I guess I do turn the work quite a bit when I make heels. It is just one of those funny little phrases that get passed along. I was taught to "turn the heel" as well. I suspect there are other things like that in knitting and crocheting. In cooking one that has caused confusion is where the older recipe will tell you to "cream the butter and sugar" - merely meaning to thoroughly blend the butter and sugar. Someone not familiar with the term might assume actual cream was involved.

Woooohoooo, Joy!!!!!! Glad you finished whether you're really happy with it or not. Perhaps you'd do what Noreen suggested now ... frog it back and make it with a heel. Everybody will be here for you, I swear!

Hm. I've always heard "turn a heel" as the verbage for creating one and thought it was 'cause for the process you stop working 'round and 'round but go back and forth, i.e., TURN the work and make rows.

Eve :o)

I just assumed it was because you are working so that the tube turns a corner, which becomes the heel.

=Tamar

Good for you, Joy! Now to learn how to turn a heel so it will fit better.

Higs, Kather> Okay, I just finished the first spiral rib sock and I have two

I also call it "turning a heel", Mirjam.

Higs, Kather> Norreen it never occured to me that you call it "turning a heel" i

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I also say: KNIT the heel, then mean "the whole heel". But in all English and American patterns the say: "turn the heel", about the operation you do AFTER you have knitted the heel flap; when you knit back and forth decreasing at the top of the healflap, to "round it".

Well, it certainly is much TURNING when doing this..! But here we have no special name of this operation. AUD ;-)

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Good, Joy!!! I think we have got a "tiny" sock bug here again?? Remember some time ago we talked much about socks, then we heard not much about them. But now..... ;-)) AUD ;-)

This is how I think of it, too. Here is what I found in my very, very old Learn How Book in the description of turning the heel on a sock: "This is called turning the heel because the work is turned after every decrease."

On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:41:12 GMT, "The Jonathan Lady" spewed forth :

Unless you KBB (knit back backwards) like I do :D The its "making a heel" hehehe

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Thank you that is a delightful explanation ,,,,, Cream the Sugar and Butter completetly ok , only i would use margarine ,,,,,,:>:>:>: same effect less calories etc.... mirjam

That is also nice ,,, in hebrew we just Knit the heel ,, mirjam ote:

thank you Katherine ,,,, maybe those heels become do neat you all have to turn heads to look at them :>:>:> mirjam

We are a minority with no proper name for making heels ..... Aud what shall we do ???? :>:>:> mirjam

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Mirjam don't say it to anybody; We SKIP the heels! they only get holes anyway ;-))) AUD :-)