Thank you for this video! This is the best video explaining the heel, flap and gusset - I know because I’ve watched so many! 😂 Your explanation of the construction and the reason for the stitches so helps to take away the mystery/fear of knitting this section!
Questions...SSK = slip one as if to knit, slip another one as if to knit, pass the stiches from the right needle to the left, insert the left-hand needle through the front of both slipped stitches from left to right, knit the two slipped stitches together through the back loop. What you are doing in the video is k2tog for both sides. For ssk you are slipping them purl wise and the passing them back to left needle which results in the sticked being the same as they were before and then you knit the together, that is k2tog, not skk. So my questions is are doing k2tog for both sides or the real SSK and them k2tog
I thought I was crazy but yes this is indeed what is happening and now im too far in to do something about it unfortunately... ill just cut my losses and keep it going.
That was going to be exactly my question too. I had to unpick my stitches as it didn’t seem right SSK, I watched the tutorial again and realised that she was slipping back to the left needle therefore basically k2tog. Great tutorial just this bit that confused me and had to read all the messages till I got to yours and realised I wasn’t going mad 🤣
I'm having the same issue! I'm confused about whether to k2tog or do what I learned as a true ssk. I'm new and this is my first pair of socks, so I'm confused.
I find using a very small crochet hook is much easier to use to pick up the gusset stitches. I pick up a stitch using the crochet hook and then put the stitch on my knitting needle. for me this is much easier and faster.
Easiest heel flap and gusset ever! And it's clean looking and durable too. I'm so grateful that I found you. You are an excellent teacher and take the time to give clear instructions. Can't thank you enough.
You make picking up the heel flap stitches so easy. Hard is an understatement for this sock knitting newbie but I WILL perservere. Thank you for the tutorial.
Hey, I just wanted to drop and note and let you know that I just followed this tutorial to knit my first heel flap/heel turn! No idea what comes next, but I am ready 😂
I finished a heel flap and gusset without tears for the 1st time!! Thank you Summer you are an awesome instructor, I may never do a FLKH again, even when I love it, I so pleased with what I accomplished with your awesome video!
Your tutorials are great! I've been crocheting for years and have always been way more comfortable with crochet than with knitting. Decided to challenge myself and try to knit socks for the first time - I did not think that I would get there! The first one is done now, the second one in the making. Your explanations and the pattern are super helpful and easy to understand. Thank you so much :)
I have been binging your videos, I usually make the up socks with a forethought heel according to a Craftsy class that I have. But right now I’m knitting cuff down with short row heel. I’m looking forward to knit these socks with the heel flap and gusset. I’m sure it can’t be more difficult than the short row heel. I am bound and determined to learn the Kitchener stitch by heart. On another note, I always used to say that my youngest son didn’t start walking until he was eight years old, as he always hopped before that.
I finally finished my first sock after years of trying and giving up! Completely due to this wonderful tutorial and your easy to follow pattern! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this series, it's so helpful to see each step! I'm watching everything before starting since I don't have the materials yet but I'll rewatch them as I knit my first pair of socks for sure!
I'm so grateful to you. I made a second sock with this heel and all thanks to you. I'm a beginner and still exploring different types of heels. For the other socks - I've made shadow wrap short row heel and I absolutely love how it looks but even though I made sure I was doing everything correctly I just couldn't get it to fit my or my husband's heels, they were always too big and deep. BUT with your great tutorial even the test heel was a great fit. I absolutely love how it is shaped and how it fits and feels. Thank you for absolutely amazing and understandable tutorial which helped me so much! Also, love the colors 💖 subscribing! 💞
I love this pattern and video tutorials. I would like to make an editing suggestion for the Gusset, however. Maybe it’s me - but when I started the Gusset decreases I didn’t do the K2TOG in the right place because the marker is placed at the end of the top of the foot. Suggest to place a second marker at the beginning of round/beginning of the top of the foot in the written pattern itself. Had to watch the video to figure out what I did wrong. Now tinking back a few rows…
Knitting socks with you is very enjoyable:) Hello from Turkey. But I do not know if I am doing it differently in the slip slip knit section. Do I need to cut to the left? :( I couldn't understand.
I am loving these! Quick question, though. When you do the SSK decrease, are you slipping purl wise with yarn in the back, slipping the two slipped stitches back to the left needle, and them knitting them together?
I had the same question. It will help to watch a video just on ssk. The purpose of slipping them onto the needle then placing them back on the other one is to turn the stitches the correct way. As counter productive as it looks it turns the little loops so you can knit them together properly. Hope this helps!! Also it’s probably too late anyway but oh well lol
@@aynashaa Yes I see what you mean…it’s like she slip, slips to the right and then slip, slips to the left and then knits 🤔 This is the only real problem area for me. I loved the rest of her tutorials much BETTER than some others on TH-cam. I just had to find out how to SSK in a way that wasn’t so cumbersome (this one is really super weird) and then came back to this channel to finish it up!
Help! I think I've somehow goofed and now my heel flap is backwards (the portion that should be on the inside appears to be on the outside) -- am i doomed?? Can this be fixed? (great videos btw! Thanks for doing these!)
I have myself in a pickle. I am not a knitter and this is my first attempt. Just started the heel decreases and I realise that I seem to be knitting on the 'wrong side' the inside of the sock now has the wavy lines and the outside the V. I have certainly done something wrong - unpicking it doesn't feel like an option but can I correct it on the next row? I am currently doing a row 2.
This is such a great video. Quick question - after turning the heel flap, my needles are pointing to the left but I'm looking at the wrong side of my work. What should I do to get in position to correctly pick up gusset stitches? Thanks.
When you change your colors how do you secure the other strands of yarn that are left hanging so you don’t end up with a whole or a gap and the yard is secured
Summer, on the heel turn portion, it looks like you are doing SSK by slipping two consecutive stitches purlwise and then knitting through the front. Is that the way you do SSK? I have seen it slip two consecutive stitches as if to knit and then knit through the back loop. Does it do the same thing?
I’m confused by this too, I’ve even slowed down the video. It looks like she slips purlwise and then puts them back on the left needle the same way which seems pointless to me because when you do that you don’t twist the stitches so it’s essentially the same as a k2tog?
Yeah, I think what she did is equivalent to k2tog. I did SSK as taught by other videos (slipping both stitches knitwise) and it seemed to work great, though maybe I'm missing something?
Hi! So in your pattern you have needle sizes 1, 1.5 and 2 for usual sock needles. I couldn't find size 1 so I bought size 2. My gauge is too big now, 32.5. All i see online is going down a needle size.... What do I do?? Go down a sock size (from medium to small)? Or cast on different number, return the No.2 and get No. 1 needle? Hahaha Thanks!!
Some people want you to pick up a stitch between the end of the heel and picking up the stitches to prevent a hole but I don’t see you doing that. Is it Necessary? Did that make sense ? Hope I said that right
Thank you for the video! I started my heel flap, but it's reversed--the pattern is inside the sock?! How did I do this? Help!!! I might just continue with this one since this is my very first sock of my very first pair, but I don't want to make the same mistake again--and I don't know how to take the stitches out without ruining all my work! Thank you!
I am having the same problem! Needles look in the right position but I end up with the purl side facing😢. I'm going to write things out to make some sense. Please lmk if you figured this out. This is my 4th attempt and am about to give up on sock knitting 😢
Thanks so much for these videos. They're fab!!! Could you share which method of SSK you use? I often find mine a little untidy. Also, I seem to be getting more stitches on the second side of the pick up. Any ideas why this might keep happening?? 😊
@@marjonmooj8021 Came here for this. She's just slipping her stitches pearl wise and then flipping them back, which means there's absolutely no difference between a K2Tog and what she's calling an ssk
For your ssk there’s something that I can’t figure out and is…you slip the two stitches from the left needle to the right the same way that you slip them back to the left and then you knit them together. Why don’t you knit them together without moving them back and forth? That is no sense for me. Thanks for answering
Sorry no one answered you. I don’t know if it’ll help now but her book says to ssk. So slip the stitches knit wise then knit them together. Must have been a video error she didn’t catch. Some say you can do both as it doesn’t really matter but when you get to the gusset you’ll be thankful you did. Looks neater in my opinion. I read through the comments and she never answered anyone on the issue.
@@Renaystar thank you for taking the time to answer me. I’m very disapointed that she has never answered me. This is the third time that I ask a question and no answer. I suppose that making a book makes a busy life after🙄🙄
@@elfepssthe difference between k2tog and ssk is that one is a left leaning decrease and the other is a right leaning decrease. So it makes the stitches lie in a more desirable way on each side of the gusset. This is a very thorough video with the exception of how to ssk.
Awesome! Did anyone ever get an answer on the SSK? Unsure whether to continue with my normal technique or try out this (which seems to me just K2tog) ? :)
I don’t know about anyone else but when I get close to the end of a round, (three stitches from the end), I knit two together, then knit one. When I’m at the beginning of a round, I will knit one, slip slip knit-wise and then knit those two slipped stitches together through the back of the needle. It works for me! :-)
I didn't realize the ssk shown in the video is like doing a k2tog until I got to the first gusset decrease round! Can I ask if you followed the video and continued doing the k2tog for both decreases?
I was a little confused by this too. I thought it was a different way of doing SSK, but when I came to do it I realised that the stitches are just being moved from one needle back to the other and ends up being K2tog (unless I’m missing something).
Gusset part is a but confusing from the pattern and not enough video explanations here, perhaps 1 more marker for the end of the round would have helped.
yeah, how lazy of her to write a free pattern and film a video tutorial! seriously there are so many resources for you to find answers to your question, and with ungrateful, selfish comments like this, it’s no wonder she doesn’t regularly return to the video to service your entitlement.
Thank you for this video! This is the best video explaining the heel, flap and gusset - I know because I’ve watched so many! 😂 Your explanation of the construction and the reason for the stitches so helps to take away the mystery/fear of knitting this section!
Questions...SSK = slip one as if to knit, slip another one as if to knit, pass the stiches from the right needle to the left, insert the left-hand needle through the front of both slipped stitches from left to right, knit the two slipped stitches together through the back loop. What you are doing in the video is k2tog for both sides. For ssk you are slipping them purl wise and the passing them back to left needle which results in the sticked being the same as they were before and then you knit the together, that is k2tog, not skk. So my questions is are doing k2tog for both sides or the real SSK and them k2tog
I thought I was crazy but yes this is indeed what is happening and now im too far in to do something about it unfortunately... ill just cut my losses and keep it going.
That was going to be exactly my question too. I had to unpick my stitches as it didn’t seem right SSK, I watched the tutorial again and realised that she was slipping back to the left needle therefore basically k2tog. Great tutorial just this bit that confused me and had to read all the messages till I got to yours and realised I wasn’t going mad 🤣
@@vonniesworldthis was driving crazy!! I couldn’t figure out if I didn’t get it cause I’m a newbie or not. Did you end up using SSK or K2tog?
@@laza0150 I did k2tog 👍
I'm having the same issue! I'm confused about whether to k2tog or do what I learned as a true ssk. I'm new and this is my first pair of socks, so I'm confused.
I find using a very small crochet hook is much easier to use to pick up the gusset stitches. I pick up a stitch using the crochet hook and then put the stitch on my knitting needle. for me this is much easier and faster.
Easiest heel flap and gusset ever! And it's clean looking and durable too. I'm so grateful that I found you. You are an excellent teacher and take the time to give clear instructions. Can't thank you enough.
You make picking up the heel flap stitches so easy. Hard is an understatement for this sock knitting newbie but I WILL perservere. Thank you for the tutorial.
Hey, I just wanted to drop and note and let you know that I just followed this tutorial to knit my first heel flap/heel turn! No idea what comes next, but I am ready 😂
20 mins for gusset this is a great tutorial
I finished a heel flap and gusset without tears for the 1st time!! Thank you Summer you are an awesome instructor, I may never do a FLKH again, even when I love it, I so pleased with what I accomplished with your awesome video!
Oh yay!! I'm so glad the video was helpful!!
Awesome! I feel you are taking the fear out of sock knitting heel flap and gusset. It seems so understandable now. Thank you.
Your tutorials are great! I've been crocheting for years and have always been way more comfortable with crochet than with knitting. Decided to challenge myself and try to knit socks for the first time - I did not think that I would get there! The first one is done now, the second one in the making. Your explanations and the pattern are super helpful and easy to understand. Thank you so much :)
This is the best thing I have watched in weeks! You are an amazing teacher. Thank you!
I have been binging your videos, I usually make the up socks with a forethought heel according to a Craftsy class that I have. But right now I’m knitting cuff down with short row heel. I’m looking forward to knit these socks with the heel flap and gusset. I’m sure it can’t be more difficult than the short row heel. I am bound and determined to learn the Kitchener stitch by heart. On another note, I always used to say that my youngest son didn’t start walking until he was eight years old, as he always hopped before that.
Oh my gosh, this is the best way to pick up stitches for the gusset! Why haven’t I learned this before? 😄 Thank you!
really like the way you explain this - thank you!
took me a while to figure out the notification sounds were in the video, lol. thanks for a great tutorial!
You are such a great teacher! Your video was so clear and understandable. Thank you!
Oh yay! I’m so glad it was helpful!!
I finally finished my first sock after years of trying and giving up! Completely due to this wonderful tutorial and your easy to follow pattern! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this series, it's so helpful to see each step! I'm watching everything before starting since I don't have the materials yet but I'll rewatch them as I knit my first pair of socks for sure!
Thank you so much. I have finished one sock. First attempt at knitting. Thanks again😊😊
I'm so grateful to you. I made a second sock with this heel and all thanks to you. I'm a beginner and still exploring different types of heels. For the other socks - I've made shadow wrap short row heel and I absolutely love how it looks but even though I made sure I was doing everything correctly I just couldn't get it to fit my or my husband's heels, they were always too big and deep. BUT with your great tutorial even the test heel was a great fit. I absolutely love how it is shaped and how it fits and feels. Thank you for absolutely amazing and understandable tutorial which helped me so much! Also, love the colors 💖 subscribing! 💞
I love this pattern and video tutorials. I would like to make an editing suggestion for the Gusset, however. Maybe it’s me - but when I started the Gusset decreases I didn’t do the K2TOG in the right place because the marker is placed at the end of the top of the foot. Suggest to place a second marker at the beginning of round/beginning of the top of the foot in the written pattern itself.
Had to watch the video to figure out what I did wrong. Now tinking back a few rows…
I've just had to do tbe exact same thing 🤦♀️
Hi - Super newbie here. Can you please explain the difference between SSK and K2TOG? I can't tell the difference from the video. Thanks.
When you slip the stitches as if to knit, it twists the stitches so they are oriented the other way complicated to k2tog
Thank you for this tutorial. I just finished my first pair of socks.
Thank you for the pattern and tutorials 👍🥰🧶🌞🌷
How are you doing your ssk? It looks like nothing changed about the direction of the stitches and then you k2tog…
Thank you, this video was very helpful 🤗
Soooooo informative!!!! Thank you for the tutorial! You’re a great teacher!!!😁
Oh yay! I’m so glad it was helpful!!!
Knitting socks with you is very enjoyable:) Hello from Turkey. But I do not know if I am doing it differently in the slip slip knit section. Do I need to cut to the left? :(
I couldn't understand.
Excellent tutorial.
Thank you so much for this helpful tutorial!
I'm so excited to start these! These are the tutorials I've been waiting for 😍🥰
Yay!! I hope they are helpful!
I am loving these! Quick question, though. When you do the SSK decrease, are you slipping purl wise with yarn in the back, slipping the two slipped stitches back to the left needle, and them knitting them together?
I had the same question. It will help to watch a video just on ssk. The purpose of slipping them onto the needle then placing them back on the other one is to turn the stitches the correct way. As counter productive as it looks it turns the little loops so you can knit them together properly. Hope this helps!! Also it’s probably too late anyway but oh well lol
Ps I don’t like to do it the way she does ssk. She does it in kind of a weird way but if it works it works!
@@aynashaa Yes I see what you mean…it’s like she slip, slips to the right and then slip, slips to the left and then knits 🤔 This is the only real problem area for me. I loved the rest of her tutorials much BETTER than some others on TH-cam. I just had to find out how to SSK in a way that wasn’t so cumbersome (this one is really super weird) and then came back to this channel to finish it up!
I ended up doing k2tog for everything 😅
Help! I think I've somehow goofed and now my heel flap is backwards (the portion that should be on the inside appears to be on the outside) -- am i doomed?? Can this be fixed? (great videos btw! Thanks for doing these!)
See my comment above, same issue I'm puzzled
Thank you, I love this pattern
I have myself in a pickle. I am not a knitter and this is my first attempt. Just started the heel decreases and I realise that I seem to be knitting on the 'wrong side' the inside of the sock now has the wavy lines and the outside the V. I have certainly done something wrong - unpicking it doesn't feel like an option but can I correct it on the next row? I am currently doing a row 2.
You make this so easy!
Fabulous tutorials! Thank you so much
This is great! However, as I'm left handed, when I am going to knit the gusset, wouldn't my needles be facing right?
This is such a great video. Quick question - after turning the heel flap, my needles are pointing to the left but I'm looking at the wrong side of my work. What should I do to get in position to correctly pick up gusset stitches? Thanks.
I did one additional knit row
Yay jou just knitted? Genius😂
When you change your colors how do you secure the other strands of yarn that are left hanging so you don’t end up with a whole or a gap and the yard is secured
What are you doing with thes slip slip are you twisting the masks?
what is the rationale of knitting two at the beginning of the heel flap, I've never seen that done.
Excelencia es lo tuyo mí querida gracias por toda esa gracias que Dios te regala todos los dias
Summer, on the heel turn portion, it looks like you are doing SSK by slipping two consecutive stitches purlwise and then knitting through the front. Is that the way you do SSK? I have seen it slip two consecutive stitches as if to knit and then knit through the back loop. Does it do the same thing?
Do you twist them when you pass them back to the left needle?
I’m confused by this too, I’ve even slowed down the video. It looks like she slips purlwise and then puts them back on the left needle the same way which seems pointless to me because when you do that you don’t twist the stitches so it’s essentially the same as a k2tog?
Yeah, I think what she did is equivalent to k2tog. I did SSK as taught by other videos (slipping both stitches knitwise) and it seemed to work great, though maybe I'm missing something?
Hi! So in your pattern you have needle sizes 1, 1.5 and 2 for usual sock needles.
I couldn't find size 1 so I bought size 2. My gauge is too big now, 32.5.
All i see online is going down a needle size.... What do I do?? Go down a sock size (from medium to small)? Or cast on different number, return the No.2 and get No. 1 needle? Hahaha
Thanks!!
Some people want you to pick up a stitch between the end of the heel and picking up the stitches to prevent a hole but I don’t see you doing that. Is it Necessary? Did that make sense ? Hope I said that right
Thank you for the video! I started my heel flap, but it's reversed--the pattern is inside the sock?! How did I do this? Help!!! I might just continue with this one since this is my very first sock of my very first pair, but I don't want to make the same mistake again--and I don't know how to take the stitches out without ruining all my work! Thank you!
I am having the same problem! Needles look in the right position but I end up with the purl side facing😢. I'm going to write things out to make some sense. Please lmk if you figured this out. This is my 4th attempt and am about to give up on sock knitting 😢
quick question: why do you use this decrease technique for the heel turn instead of GSR or something similar? L-O-V-E your patterns!!
I am making a sock where the heel is a W&T. I don't like it. Can I use your method for the heel ? I am new to making socks so thank you.
I have knit the heel flap three times. It’s always off center. What am I doing wrong?? Thanks for the help
Thanks so much for these videos. They're fab!!! Could you share which method of SSK you use? I often find mine a little untidy.
Also, I seem to be getting more stitches on the second side of the pick up. Any ideas why this might keep happening?? 😊
Really...what is the difference between ssk and k2tog 🥴?
@@sandras4689 same question here!
I think she makes a knit 2 together here.. a ssk is slip 2 stitches knitwise and then put them back.. then the stitches are turning
@@marjonmooj8021 Came here for this. She's just slipping her stitches pearl wise and then flipping them back, which means there's absolutely no difference between a K2Tog and what she's calling an ssk
Do you ever knit two at a time ? I have second sock syndrome
For your ssk there’s something that I can’t figure out and is…you slip the two stitches from the left needle to the right the same way that you slip them back to the left and then you knit them together. Why don’t you knit them together without moving them back and forth? That is no sense for me. Thanks for answering
Sorry no one answered you. I don’t know if it’ll help now but her book says to ssk. So slip the stitches knit wise then knit them together. Must have been a video error she didn’t catch. Some say you can do both as it doesn’t really matter but when you get to the gusset you’ll be thankful you did. Looks neater in my opinion. I read through the comments and she never answered anyone on the issue.
@@Renaystar thank you for taking the time to answer me. I’m very disapointed that she has never answered me. This is the third time that I ask a question and no answer. I suppose that making a book makes a busy life after🙄🙄
@@elfepssthe difference between k2tog and ssk is that one is a left leaning decrease and the other is a right leaning decrease. So it makes the stitches lie in a more desirable way on each side of the gusset. This is a very thorough video with the exception of how to ssk.
I've seen so many heel flap turns that start the ssk decreases two stitches past the middle of the sock. Is there a difference in the outcome?
At 18 minutes in I ended on a knit row,
No more stitches left on the one needle
But my needles are facing right and not left… ?-?
How do I get the heel seem so even? One side always looks horrible no matter how tight I try to make the stitches
Awesome! Did anyone ever get an answer on the SSK? Unsure whether to continue with my normal technique or try out this (which seems to me just K2tog) ? :)
I don’t know about anyone else but when I get close to the end of a round, (three stitches from the end), I knit two together, then knit one. When I’m at the beginning of a round, I will knit one, slip slip knit-wise and then knit those two slipped stitches together through the back of the needle. It works for me! :-)
I didn't realize the ssk shown in the video is like doing a k2tog until I got to the first gusset decrease round! Can I ask if you followed the video and continued doing the k2tog for both decreases?
I was a little confused by this too. I thought it was a different way of doing SSK, but when I came to do it I realised that the stitches are just being moved from one needle back to the other and ends up being K2tog (unless I’m missing something).
What do you do to close the holes on the side where the gusset joins the front of the foot?
Is it possible to knit this heel in a toe up sock?
Summer…forgive me…but I don’t think you are doing a SSK. Correct me if I’m wrong. 😬
If your needles point the wrong way after the heel turn what can you do?
The video tells you what to correct it.
Don't see it!
isn't ssk just knitting two stiches together?
They are both decreases but one leans left and the other right. Hope this helps.
Gusset part is a but confusing from the pattern and not enough video explanations here, perhaps 1 more marker for the end of the round would have helped.
Uau!🤩
Where are starting videos. This is like 3rd isnt it
Check out her channel and choose the video tab. You will see the others
Gnb
This is Not toe up!!!!!
I was going to leave a question here, but I notice that she doesn't answer them. I'm rather disappointed by that.
Not many have the time to read through all the comments, many questions can be answered by searching online.
@@roseflowers7641 And many make the time
yeah, how lazy of her to write a free pattern and film a video tutorial! seriously there are so many resources for you to find answers to your question, and with ungrateful, selfish comments like this, it’s no wonder she doesn’t regularly return to the video to service your entitlement.